While pundits debate whether the PC or the NC is king of the personal computing hill, Geoworks hopes to change the rules of the game - by wooing PC users away from the desktop. The company's GEOS operating system lies at the heart of the Nokia 9000 Communicator, a new wireless phone that can fax, email, and access the Net - and offer the ABCs of an organizer.
"It's all-in-one communications," says Gordon Meyer, president and CEO of the Alameda, California-based Geoworks. "It's 32-bit processing in the palm of your hand."
While it's premature to predict how smart phones will do with finicky consumers, one thing's for sure: with a smart phone in your pocket, you can be king of the hill no matter where you are on the mountain.
