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Tuesday, September 16, 2003
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WIRELESS HANDHELDS
HP iPAQ h4350 - Bluetooth, WiFi and HP's First Integrated Keyboard
This is a preview published by BargainPDA linking to PocketPCItalia which provided this illustration along with the specs for this not yet available handheld. The reason I'm posting this is that it's showing how the integrated keyboard and portrait orientation is becoming the accepted optimized design for handhelds.
You can see the comparison with the Treo 600 being released this week in the UK. The iPAQ doesn't apparently have phone capability and would require a separate cell phone to connect to the Internet using its Bluetooth radio. This is the alternative "two-device" solution.
Speaking of which, the reviews are starting to trickle in on the SONY UX-50 which has just begun appearing in local stores. You must justify the $700 price tag against its feature set: 480x320 display, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and multimedia support. It's drawbacks: portrait mode for screen not available, incomplete software support for the landscape screen, and missing navigation buttons normally found on Palm devices. You can read these early reviews: BargainPDA, Brighthand, and PalmInfoCenter.
10:09:56 PM 
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CLINICAL WIRELESS
Mobile Health Data
Mobile Health Data is a Web site that had it's premiere the beginning of this month. Some of the topics include handhelds, Tablet PC's and HIPAA issues. It's published by Thomson Media, publisher of the trade magazine and Web site, Health Data Management.
Cell phones fingered for germ spread
This article reports on studies recently presented at the American Society for Microbiology's annual infectious diseases conference.
The cell phone study was presented by Jacob Gilad, a researcher at Soroka University Medical Center, a hospital with 71 physicians and 53 nurses in BeerSheva, Israel. "We had a huge problem with this bacteria" - Acinetobacter baumannii - which can cause serious bloodstream and respiratory tract infections in patients with catheters, on ventilators and in burn units - and wondered whether cell phones were at fault, he said. They found that 12% of cell phones and 24% of health care workers' hands were contaminated with the germ, which is of great concern because it easily acquires resistance to antibiotics.
Also noted: Many hospitals now issue special cell phones to doctors and nurses because ordinary ones interfere with medical equipment and can be used only in designated areas.
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