Google Wireless

Google Wireless provides mobile access to the full power of Google right from the PDA in your palm, the BlackBerry on your belt, or the cellphone in your pocket. Settle that “in like Flynn” versus “in like Flint” dinner-table argument without leaving your seat. Find quickie reviews and commentary on that Dustmeister 2000 vacuum before making the purchase. Figure out where you’ve seen that bit-part actor before without waiting for the credits at the end of the movie.

And beyond searching, you can actually browse the Web with a little help from Google. By squishing down those complex pages into something your cellphone can understand, Google brings any Web page you can get to from your desktop PC to your cellphone on the fly. This feature is hugely useful, as most Web pages are encoded in ways that make them otherwise inaccessible from the older wireless phones that don’t have built-in browsers.

To get online out in the world you need two things: a phone or PDA capable of browsing the Web, and a data plan that lets you surf.