RE: Sprint phone needed to perform "pervasive" computing

You're doing the same thing I did a few months ago.  I went from 2
phones (me + wife) to a company-paid phone for me + wife gets her own.

I'm using the Handspring Treo 300:

- Palm OS w/ 16MB
- Mochasoft TN5250
- Blazer web browser
- Color
- Sprint BizConn for MS Outlook integration (near-real-time email)
- Email/messages to yournameandsomenumber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Unlimited data

It was great being in a class a couple of weeks ago and staying caught
up on emails during the breaks.  The phone is smaller than the Palm IIIx
it replaced (let alone the accompanying old cel phone).  Battery life is
OK.  The keyboard is easy to get used to.  Lots of good phone features
like speed dials and integration with the Palm address book (and thus
with Outlook Contacts when synched).  As a phone I can start typing a
number or a name and it does a process of elimination to find it in the
address book.  Or, if reading anything on screen, if there's a phone
number there you can dial it without hitting the phone button & retyping
in the #.  Mochasoft for Palm is decent, although I can't recommend it
if you want large text; text on a PDA screen is tiny even with a
scrolling view.

The big downside is it's a single mode phone; no analog fallback.  So it
might not work everywhere.  If you can hold a couple of months the Treo
600 would be a better phone (expandable, multi-mode, faster CPU, less
filling, tastes great).  Also, BizConn is very much a 1.0 product in
that it doesn't always connect (but does mostly) and doesn't offer
support for anything other than inbox, outbox, sent, deleted, and
drafts.


My wife wanted a basic phone and got a Samsung SCH-A460.  $129 but
there's usually at least $80 worth of rebates on it.

- John
-----Original Message-----
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:45 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Sprint phone needed to perform "pervasive" computing


I will be switching my cell phone from Centennial to Sprint.

What phone do you recommend I get?
Requirements:
- Place and receive phone calls.
- Be able to handle monitors from iSeries Navigator
Yes, work is picking up the tab.  However I don't want to break the
bank. 
(Two more layoffs in the department this week.)

ps:  My wife will also be moving to Sprint.  That one I'll be paying
for. 
All she needs is to be able to place/receive calls.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 
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