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through EDGE or 3G. 50% of the responses indicated that PDA with email access,
calendar and contacts and blackberry Push email were also considered important. This
shows that even though PDAs were rarely used within government organisations and
there was a wide gap between cell phone and laptop use, it was still rated as important.
This could be that the gap has been narrowed as most advanced and even some basic
cell phones have now enabled PDA features.
Laptop computer and 3G(HSDPA) card
Laptop computer and 3G /wireless card
Cell Phone – WAP (back-office access)
Cell Phone – WAP (web access)
Cell Phone – SMS business communications …
Cell Phone – Voice and general messaging …
Figure 5:5 Importance of existing established mobile technologies (percentage of “Somewhat important” +
“very important” of all responses).
Laptop computer
PDA/Cell phone – back-office access
PDA/Cell phone voice and general messaging
PDA – e-mail access
PDA – calendar / contacts
Push e-mail / Blackberry
Smartphone – back-office access
Smartphone – Voice and general messaging
Cell Phone – 3G
Cell Phone – EDGE/GPRS back-office access
Cell Phone – GPRS
Cell Phone – EDGE
Cell Phone – Blue Tooth
0 % 10 %20 %30 %40 %50 %60 %70 %80 %90 %100 %
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10 %
25 %
25 %
30 %
30 %
30 %
30 %
30 %
35 %
35 %
35 %
45 %
50 %
50 %
50 %
Some what important + Very Important
90 %
90 %
100 %
100 %