So should I ditch my pager?

Post #26,564 by tjsinclair 1/30/02 3:10:29 PM Reply	So should I ditch my pager? Currently I have a cell phone (Verizon Wireless), pager (Metrocall, number-only) and PDA (Palm VII). (This doesn't count the rest of my portable gadgets, i.e. TiBook, iPod, etc.) Seriously, I'd like some opinions on this. The fewer gizmos I drag along with me, the better. Tom Sinclair Speaker-to-Suits A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. -- (Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant)
Post #26,569 by tonytib 1/30/02 3:30:51 PM Reply	You might want to look at the Handspring Treo as it's a GSM phone (CDMA should be coming for Verizon and Sprint customers considering that Qualcomm recently invested in Handspring), Palm PDA, does SMS text messaging, and is fairly small. It's been getting good reviews, and a color version is coming. If you're reasonably happy with what you have, I'd recommend waiting, as we should be seeing similar devices coming. For example, Samsung has a color Palm phone for Sprint (don't know if it's available for Verizon), we should be seeing some Symbian and WinCE (Stinger) based stuff sometime this year. There's also the Visor phone (GSM) and the Sprint CDMA phone module for Handspring. Some IWETHEY members have and like the Visor phone IIRC. Note that both modules do stick out below the bottom of the Visor. And Sprint claims they'll have color, Java-enabled 2.5G phones by midyear (of course, you can run Java on a Palm or Handspring phone). I'm going to wait at least six more months before replacing my phone. You're not going to see iPOD functionality in a combined device any time soon. Tony
Post #26,589 by CRConrad 1/30/02 5:04:38 PM Reply	Or, going at it from the other direction... ...the Nokia series 60, which is kind of a phone that's sprouted a display and pull-out keyboard, and become a PDA. ("Son of Communicator 9000"?) Be smart, though -- wait a year or so, until they've launched the lower-cost models (I assume?) of the series, or the top model's been reduced. As Karsten said, there's prolly gonna be a lot of devices of these kinds around fairly soon. Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #26,621 by tjsinclair 1/31/02 1:05:18 AM Reply	Just switched to Verizon last week.... I used to pay AT&T Wireless sixty bucks a month and then found that I could switch to the Verizon family plan with my wife (who was already on Verizon's service) and only pay twenty bucks more. So I guess the cell stays for a while. I'll keep an eye peeled, though. Thanks for the info! Tom Sinclair Speaker-to-Suits Genua had once controlled the river mouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn't be called piracy because it was done by the city government. -- Local-body politics explained (Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad)

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