(FORTUNE Small Business) – As the hottest sector of telecommunications gets hotter, new wireless telephones, pagers, and related gadgets are surging into the market from such makers as Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and 3Com. The GartnerGroup consulting firm estimates that in 1999 more wireless phones will be sold than personal computers and cars combined; the forecast for next year is 200 million shipments. Many of these products do much more than let you chat or leave a message. You can pull down e-mail and news headlines as well as surf the Internet. Here are the latest devices, unveiled at PCS 99, that can help you run your small business from just about anywhere:

Ericsson T28 World Phone (pricing not set; mobile.ericsson.com)

This three-ounce miniwonder, only four inches long, shows just how far cell-phone miniaturization has advanced since Martin Cooper and fellow engineers at Motorola (plus others at Bell Labs) whipped up patents that led to the first brick-size cell phones in the early 1970s. The T28 operates on the GSM band popular in Europe and the U.S., meaning you can use it almost anywhere your small business takes you. Powered by a lithium polymer battery, whose light weight allows for the phone's small size, the T28 will last for ten hours of talk time and 120 hours of standby without recharging.

Motorola V700 pager ($150; www.motorola.com/pagers)

The V700 lets you pick up e-mail messages from the Net and online services such as AOL, and it alerts you with any of eight tuneful signals. If you can't carry a laptop, or if you expect to be out of cell-phone range at a remote resort in the Rockies, the V700 could be the gadget for you. It's colorful too--in hues of Blue Streak and Totally Teal.

NeoPoint 1000 ($400; www.neopoint.com)

All the big cell-phone makers are coming out with "smart" phones that talk and link to the Internet, but a small company called NeoPoint in La Jolla, Calif., beat them all to it. Sleek and stylish, weighing in at only 6.4 ounces, the 1000 lets you talk over the Sprint PCS network, send and receive e-mail, read news headlines, and access the Web over a text-based minibrowser with integrated software from phone.com.