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My primary mobile phone for quite some time has been the Handspring Treo 600 with Sprint PCS as the service provider (operator). The Treo is a really terrific device with many great features. There are just two problems. First, Sprint PCS does not support GSM (the protocol used in most of the world) and since I travel quite a bit outside of America, I have had to travel often carrying two mobile phones. The second phone (a Motorola service has been provided by T-Mobile (owned by Deutsche Telecom), a major provider of GSM in America (and many other parts of the world). I have had T-Mobile service for a long time but, unfortunately, their coverage in the part of New England where I live is very poor. Having to manage two mobile phone accounts and two mobile phone numbers has been a pain for quite some time.

The second problem with the Sprint/Treo combination has been that the TREO, which operates on the Palm platform, does not support the Opera browser. Since I am an enthusiastic user and supporter of Opera (and member of the board of Opera Software ASA), I have been looking for a mobile phone and mobile operator with which I can use Opera. Needless to say, my colleagues at Opera Software were very sympathetic toward this objective and during my visit to Oslo, Norway for a board meeting in June, I acquired a Sony Ericsson P900. The P900 is quite an extraordinary device. In many ways it is similar to the Treo, but in other ways it is superior. The P900 uses the Symbian operating system. It is not Palm nor Windows, but it has some amazing features. (read more)

Mobile June 30, 2004 11:59 PM