A Fistful of Cell Phone

People may one day look back and wonder why mobile phones and PDAs were ever separate. It's sensible to have your contacts list, diary and other crucial personal data stored in the one item you never leave home withoutyour cell phone. In recognition of the obvious, hybrid phone-PDAs such as Handspring's Treo began arriving in Asia this year. Now the xda, a versatile combo from British company mm02a wireless spin-off from BTmay move the multipurpose devices closer to the mainstream.

Powered by a 206-MHz Intel StrongArm processor with 32 MB of memory, the xda will seem familiar to...