[Cialug] OT: Treos & other smartphones

[David Champion]

Tmobile has an unlimited data plan for $25 / month (on top of your voice 
plan). I have only ever used about 2.5mb of data according to the bill, 
but I don't see how that's accurate.

In October I went to a halloween party, and took pictures of several 
people in their costumes and emailed these to them. Plus I used my email 
and did a lot of web surfing (gotta check the /. headlines while 
standing in line, or check the weather forcast when you're already 
outside, you know), and it still was just under 2.5mb according to the bill.

Tmobile does not sell the Treo any longer. I hear you can buy an 
"unlocked" Treo on ebay and have the rep at the Tmobile store set it up 
for their service. Try at your own risk, ymmv...

Of course, Tmobile may not work for you anyway, if you live, say, out in 
the middle of nowhere on a lake.

A friend of mine has a Nextel Blackberry, and the first month he 
travelled for 3 out of 4 weeks for business, and he used the email 
extensively. His metered data plan bill was almost $2,000 for that month.

-dc

James Shoemaker wrote:
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> Stuart Thiessen wrote:
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>>I have heard rumors about other Linux-based PDAs and smartphones. Do any
>>of you know about those or they aren't ready for primetime yet?
>>
>>I have a 600 myself, but I'd rather find something that was a little
>>less expensive in terms of fees. However, I'm finding that the monthly
>>fees seem to be about the same except for the Sidekick which tends to
>>run about 29.99 for data-only versus about $60+ from Sprint for
>>data+voice. Being deaf, who needs voice anyhow?  ;)
> 
> 
> 	You should be able to get by on sprint for around $39/month ($29.99 for
> the 200 minute voice plan+$10/month for vision).  Data doesn't use
> minutes with the treo 650.
> 	Or use the $40 data only plan, but then you have a 40Mb/month limit.
> 
> James
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