Siemens offers complete wireless connectivity solution with its new S25 mobile phone and 3Com`s Palm Connected Organisers

Siemens is offering a complete wireless connectivity solution with its new Siemens S25 mobile phone with 3Com`s Palm Connected Organisers, allowing for emails, memos and address information to be transmitted across GSM networks without the need for wiring of any kind.

The connectivity between the Siemens S25 and 3Com`s Palm Computing devices offers mobile users who need to have constant contact with all communication mediums, a complete wireless solution, explains Sean Heyes, 3Com SA`s retail programme manager. "With email having become such an essential part of life, mobile users are now able to communicate effectively with a wireless solution that fits into ones pocket," he says.

The availability of 3Com`s Enhanced infrared (IR) update, free downloadable software, 3Com Palm device users have the ability to connect to IR-capable mobile phones, including the new Siemens S25.

"The Enhanced IR update software, when downloaded onto either the Palm III, Palm IIIx or Palm V, adds the IrComm communications protocol to the Palm Computing device," says Heyes. "Users simply select the "IR" function on the Palm device`s intuitive user interface and all serial communications, both from built-in applications as well as add-on applications from third parties, will be `beamed` from the Palm device`s IR port to the mobile phone."

Kerry-Leigh McWilliams, Siemens marketing manager, communication devices, says that the Siemens S25, when linked to one of 3Com`s Palm devices, allows the mobile user to send and receive data and emails, as well as browse the web, from any remote site, via the phone`s built-in modem. She adds that the S25 is the first Siemens mobile phone with an integrated Internet browser.

"This wireless communication between the Siemens S25 and any Palm device, is made possible using the software written by Smartcode for 3Com`s Palm Computing platform, which includes HandMail and HandWeb," says 3Com`s Heyes. "Users will be able to send and receive information from almost anywhere and mobile workers may have instant access to enterprise information in nearly any environment."

3Com`s Palm Computing platform products, hold a 72 percent share of the worldwide handheld personal companion market (IDC, November, 1998).

The Enhanced IR update can be downloaded from the Palm Computing web site at www.palm.com.

Palm Computing Platform

The Palm Computing platform is the foundation for the market-leading 3Com Palm III and PalmPilot connected organisers and other handheld computing products from Palm Computing`s strategic partners, all leaders in their respective markets. These include IBM, which sells the IBM WorkPad PC Companion into the enterprise market, Franklin Covey, which supplies the Franklin Electronic Day Planner for the training and time management industry, QUALCOMM, which will sell its pdQ CDMA Digital Smartphone in 1999, and Symbol Technologies, which develops and markets the SPT 1500 device with bar code scanning capabilities used in retail, transportation, parcel and postal delivery, manufacturing and health care.