[Cialug] OT: Treos & other smartphones

[David Champion]

There are a couple of imap clients for the Treo 600/650 that will do 
notification. They cost in the neighborhood of $85.

There are rumors that the RIM (Blackberry) email client is being ported 
to the Treo as well.

-dc

Stuart Thiessen wrote:
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> Well, last I checked (and maybe it is lower now), but I thought I had 
> the lowest voice plan plus vision plus equipment replacement plus 
> unlimited SMS (because Treos do not provide push technology to let me 
> know that a message is available for me so I have to use SMS to receive 
> notification) which ends up being about $60 or so a month.  I have been 
> looking into the Blackberries using either Verizon or possibly Sprint 
> because Blackberries push the messages to the device. We will see what I 
> end up doing. My plan ends in September, so I will use my 600 until then 
> and see what is available at that time. This RIM/NTP thing bothers me, 
> so that is why I'm dragging my feet.  And I'm not really too interested 
> in a CE device at this point.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stuart
> 
> On Jan 3, 2006, at 15:36, 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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