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Among electronic organizers and PDAs Personal Communicator Siemens IC35 The Unifier is an intermediate position: the first of its simplicity and unites single-tasking operating system, and the second - the extensibility and the ability to install new programs. With a handheld size (108x86, 5x20, 5 mm, weight 163 g), it has its own keyboard, a fairly large screen (240h160 pixels, monochrome and without light, but well-read even in dim lighting) and a complete set of integrated applications, inherent in any organizer - address book and schedule, notepad, clock, currency converter, calculator, etc. The main function of IC35 - ensuring interoperability of their applications to mobile phones and the latest management (list of supported - eight popular models from several manufacturers, as well as a Generic Mobile and external modem). Address book and organizer communicate with similar programs on the phone, thus "steer" your schedule and contacts available at IC35, and then as needed to distill the phone (whose call is always louder than that of an organizer, but the programming of the phone is inconvenient). However, like any advanced organizer, and even more so handheld computer, IC35 can synchronize data with Outlook 97/98 and Lotes Notes, connecting to a computer via the included docking station or an infrared (bude that of your PC syschetsya). When paired with a mobile phone IC35 can read-send email and exchange SMS-messaging. Do both with the keyboard is much easier than with the phone keypad, as if to download Siemens utility for SMS-messaging, the concept of short messages, and acquires a new meaning at all (you've never played a "network" of the game via SMS and what about "naval battle" or chess with his friend during a lecture?) using Unifier can browse the WAP-sites, although the convenience of performing this function is controversial. Since the display is, alas, no touch, move through the links come with the arrow keys, and it is fairly slow process and deprives the user of comfort. (However, no mouse or stylus is partly offset by the presence of the key "I & C", by the way caused by the custom context-sensitive menu.) Large negative IC35 - paltry amount of memory for loadable application - 432 KB 2 MB available. Already on the server Siemens has about a dozen additional programs, among them the Developer's toolkit for IC35. But load the universal converter and a couple of toys, sadly discover that the resources of "RAM" tend to zero. This shortcoming is eliminated by installing multimedia card (MMC), for whom IC35 has two slots, but you still have to buy it ... By the way, the organizer and still have a slot for smart cards. It is installed with an eye to the future: with time it can use for mobile banking and commerce, e-book reader, the use of digital signatures, and much more. Here are just reading books in Russian, as well as e-mail, alas, it is impossible: Russify unit in Germany at the hardware level is not profitable, but can it be done in Russia - software is not yet known. Eats baby Unifier from two alkaline batteries, size AAA ("thin finger"), which is enough for about four weeks, and for the backup memory uses a flat lithium battery CR 1220. Fans of microcomputers will argue that it's better to buy a full-fledged handheld computer than this crumb. But it's true someone remarked of the users IC35: "To every problem - its price and its decision!" Their tasks, he copes well in Moscow sold for $ 300, while supplies in bulk, it should fall another 50-75 dollars. Read more about the IC35, but in English, please visit Siemens. Sources, Materials: