RE: [PCTECH] Cheap PC and Cell modems

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

And to add to that - one of our VP's just got a new Treo and also got a GPS
feature, Mapopolis and I've been setting all of that up. He will be able to
be on the road and get real time maps, etc. Also Documents to Go is a great
add for any PDA (Word, Excel, Powerpoint,etc.)

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jones, John (US)
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 11:33 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] Cheap PC and Cell modems

Spend a little more up front and less on your monthly operating.  Get a
PalmOS-based phone and use PDAnet.

I have, for instance, a Treo 600.  Mine is from Sprint and is CDMA but
there are GSM versions available for other carriers.  With PDAnet, the
PDA Hotsync cable becomes the modem cable and the Treo is the modem.
Speed should be 0.7-2 times normal 56K modem speed.

Sprint's unlimited Vision data plan, in which 'unlimited' really means
'up to about 1GB/month', runs something like $15 on top of the phone
plan and does not use minutes.  My 600 minute/month + Vision plan runs
$64/month including taxes, etc.  PDAnet is around $30.  The Treo can be
had for $300 and up after activation rebates.

Added benefits would be all the additional capabilities you can do on
the Treo.  I already have Mochasoft's TN5250 and a VPN client on it, get
my corporate and personal email through it, surf various sites on the
bundled browser, etc.  Very, very versatile and extendable.  I also use
it to check the weather forecast and traffic conditions, play games, do
text-to-speech, capture audio/video using the camera, use it as an MP3
player.  I even use the original Palm apps to track my calendar,
contacts (with Outlook syncronization, of course), notes, etc.

John A. Jones
Americas Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
V: +1-630-455-2787 F: +1-312-601-1782
John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx