RE: Sprint phone needed to perform "pervasive" computing

Beware of using the Sprint Bizcom stuff. One of the VP's here got a Sprint
PDA phone earlier this year and gave it to me to get it setup to get email,
etc. The book that came with it was a JOKE. So I hit the website and got
more confused. They wanted to charge for stuff (so much email, etc.) and he
didn't sign up for much of that. So I called tech support and they gave me
the info on setting up the basic email and told me to forget about using
their email client and get the one from Eudora (good ole Eudora, my first
email package YEARS ago). So I download that and synch it to the phone and
go in and start setting up the email server stuff and * DING * a light
clicks on. I put OUR email server stuff in there and wallah, it works,
doesn't go through their email network, where you get CHARGED for x number
or characters, etc. ! Pretty slick :-)

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jones, John (US)
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:19 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: 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