| There is a great convergence going on today. It has | | | | Recently the weekly news magazines published an |
| actually been going on for years, but like a lot of | | | | article about the precipitous drop in wrist watch sales. It |
| technology, the convergence is accelerating. Cell | | | | makes perfect sense to not need another watch, |
| phones are at the center of one of the great historical | | | | when you already have one which is so reliable. The |
| convergences and there seems to be no end in sight. | | | | cell phone "watch" also has alarms which you can set |
| Not long ago a cell phone was a just a cell phone. It | | | | as you need to, Some cell phones even will allow you |
| has now been more than two years since many cell | | | | to set hourly or other repeating chimes at any interval |
| phones have taken on the added task of being a | | | | you want. |
| PDA, (Personal Digital Assistant). While that | | | | After the convergence of the watch and the cell |
| convergence was occurring, many people who carry | | | | phone, the next logical device to converge was the |
| cell phones with them all the time found that the most | | | | appoint book. Most cell phones now will allow you to |
| reliable timepiece that they owned was the cell phone | | | | schedule appointments within the cell phone, and they |
| that had on them. | | | | will also ring to warn you of a meeting at a given time |
| Using a cell phone as a pocket watch, or replacement | | | | before the meeting is to start. Once the appointment |
| for a wrist watch has a very interesting benefit. The | | | | book had merged, or converged with the cell phone, it |
| time on your cell phone will always be corrected to the | | | | was nearly immediately joined by the other functions |
| local time wherever you are. As you travel across | | | | of the PDA, and with that, the ability to link to standard |
| country, your cell phone will "pick up" a local tower and | | | | office contact databases. Most cell phones can |
| have its time "adjusted" to the now correct time. | | | | transfer phone numbers and addresses to and from |
| Another benefit for those of us, who remember wrist | | | | desktop or portable computers running Outlook or |
| watches, is that the cell phone regularly adjusts to the | | | | other such contact managers. |
| proper time and never needs to be readjusted by you. | | | | There is more here already, and more to come. - Look |
| In fact, the cell phone doesn't have a clock inside it, but | | | | for "Cell Phones II" coming as soon as I finish this call. |
| gets the time signal from the local tower. | | | | |