My coworkers have been drooling over my new wireless toys ever since I got them. While they're still carrying around their numeric pagers, I can whip out my PageWriter 2000x and send and receive email. While they just talk into their wireless phones, I use mine to access my Notes mail or even the address book on the server. I am the Über-geek, but I know that the others will follow. There will be no escaping the new wireless future.

What enables me to do all of this? Mobile Services for Domino 1.0, that's what. I'm free. I'm naked. I'm wireless, baby, and I'm loving every minute of it.

What is Mobile Services for Domino?
Mobile Services for Domino 1.0 actually consists of two components. The first component is called Messaging Services. This is what handles sending information out to wireless devices such as pagers and cell phones. This part is basically a pager gateway that allows you to control in minute detail what is sent out to wireless devices. It can also handle replies that come back from certain devices, such as two-way pagers.

The second component is Wireless Domino Access. This is where a lot of the "Wow" factor comes into play. Wireless Domino Access allows you to use a phone equipped with Phone.com's Up.Browser Microbrowser (see http://www.phone.com/products/upbrowser.html) to access information on a Domino server, such as your mail file or the directory. You do this in real time, and you can act on email by replying to it, forwarding it, deleting it, or even sending it to a fax machine. You can also check your calendar and send new email messages as well.

When you install Mobile Services for Domino 1.0, you have the option to install either just one or both components. Both components are controlled from a single database as you can see in Figure A. I installed both components for the purposes of this review. I used a PageWriter 2000x to test the Messaging Services component and a Mitsubishi T250 wireless phone to test the Wireless Domino Access component.