The old adage that sometimes brings a smile, is the concept wherein with some items, “less” is actually “more”. This often comes into play concerning words, emotions, style, fashion, user controls, and a host of other areas. Sometimes the understated can speak volumes. We all understand this interesting conceptual twist. But one area in particular where the “less is more” theorem is well off the mark has been in the arena of mobile web surfing. Anyone that’s attempted to use a palm sized device to traverse the real internet has been sorely rewarded. The pages are often incredibly slow, more times than not they’ve been resized and reformatted to “fit” the tiny screens, but in doing so important features are often removed. This isn’t to mention the fact that loading these pages has been, well, slow. Not just sort of slow or “kinda” slow. We are talking painfully, distractingly slow.
So it’s with great interest that we looked at “The PC edge.” This patented, palm-sized device from EdgeTech International (trading under the symbol: EGIL) changes all the rules. Management didn’t think that less was more, they thought less was simply less and decided to change all that. The PC Edge” is a unique, handheld, stand alone wireless unit with a built in modem and full-screen display providing mobile High Speed Internet Access. About the size of a checkbook, this little device allows full scale, real time Internet access, with complete user capabilities that one would find on their business or home PC. We’re talking Java motion, Full content HTML, and graphics, all in full color and combined with a keyboard that’s much larger than anything that comes standard on handheld devices.
But the real key to its popularity is the speed factor. Utilizing proprietary technology, they can load these pages 10 to 30 times faster than rival wireless products, meaning you are loading feature rich websites in just 6 to 9 seconds. This makes it a necessity for anyone from the busy businessman checking his sales forces data, to the mobile web surfer looking for the latest news. The real estate agent can check multiple listings with the client in the car. The Stock broker can scan his stock holdings, and watch the market movements. The traveler can pull up mapping sites like Google maps, and plan routes. The socially active can go to myspace, send documents, and view photos.
It’s amazing in this technological age,that we had to wait this long for a company to come along and provide us with a real world tool for web browsing, and EdgeTech has done it. Using their free GPS location service, the “Edge” can connect us to the web anywhere in the world, that there happens to be a cellular based signal, making this a global growth story.
There is little question that this will become a “must have” for millions of people, and investors with the keen insight to recognize an opportunity should think hard about this company.
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