Jeff Hawkins!!!! He made the original Palm Pilot. He left the company and started Handspring and made Visor. And in this interview he talks about the Visorphone as a better telephone, not as a way to get wireless access to the web. You have to adore this hero.
If you really want to get into Palm read this (but beware it is in pdf- format and it weighs frikkin' 4.5 megabytes).

Update Wednesday, March 7, 2001: Salon writes "When two gadgets become one. Handspring's VisorPhone is the first cool combination of cellphone and personal digital assistant."

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