Footnote to Jane Perrone's article: the T-Mobile Sidekick is actually a Danger HipTop, and you can try it in a Flash demo here. I covered it in my recent report from Comdex in Online, where I mentioned that Danger "hopes to launch in the UK early next year". The Hiptop uses a server to reprocess Web pages before sending them to the handheld, which is like a British device, Ran Mokady's Pogo (also reviewed with pictures here). Sadly, the company behind the Pogo "is to cease production of its ... device and concentrate on licensing its software to other companies" as Online also reports today. In other words, a British device that does much the same as an American device is going out of production just when the American device is starting to take off....
Trivia point: if you are elephant with supernatural memory, you will recall that I was writing about this stuff in Online in April 1999, The world at your fingertips, but calling them Wireless Information Devices or WIDs. (I got that acronym from Psion's founder, David Potter, but it failed to catch on.) In that piece, I mentioned Ran Mokady's previous company, STNC. STNC wrote the microbrowser used by Psion/Symbian, and when Microsoft needed a microbrowser, it bought the company.
