The quaint chalet-style motel at the edge of Jasper, Alberta had no phones in the rooms, but it did boast a herd of elk outside. As if to proclaim the Age of Wirelessness, the queen of the herd pranced through the adjoining forest with a radio collar. So in the spirit of the wireless woods, I blithely waved my PalmOne Treo 600 smartphone. As my wife and I toured the Canadian Rockies, it delivered conversations, e-mail and much of the Web so efficiently that I never removed my notebook PC from the bag. Wi-Fi? Why bother?
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