PCS Wireless

Instant messaging is one of the more popular Internet activities...with nearly one-half-million messages sent everyday. Now Sprint PCS has teamed with America Online, putting instant messages into all their web ready phones. "So that means anyone who has an instant messenger screen name would be able to converse...with either someone or their pc, or with someone who has a Sprint PCS phone." Sprint thinks customers want even faster contact than a traditional phone call...and it allows you to be discrete. Say you needed to talk to your boss while he`s in a meeting. "He`d get a chirp, or a vibration, depending on how he has his phone set up. And he can respond when he feels necessary. It`s not as compelling as a phone call. If he can get over here, that`s great." Sprint`s target audience is the under-thirty crowd who`ve already developed a language to speed them across a phone`s keypad. "Just as you and I might be phonetically and spelling correct when we type each other e-mails, they are just typing shorthand." And typing those words is easier with a translator, call T-9 Tegick technology. If you`re concerned about costs...Sprint says there`s nothing more to it than having one of their phones. They cost 99-dollars and Up and charge data minutes at the same rate as voice minutes. And you`re charged only for minutes your phone is sending or receiving messages. On the horizon for wireless phones, a popular Japanese activity: wireless karaoke. Perhaps technology is out of control. http://www.sprint.com/