handheld device

[gary]

The touchscreen would rule out a blackberry. I got mine "free", but pay 
$20 to be on the network.

If you do go Blackberry, I suggest getting a model that uses EDGE rather 
than GPRS. GPRS is fine for email, but webpages load slowly due to 
latency issues.

Incidentally, I'm in the SF Bay area. However, we bow to you guys up 
north as the wifi mecca. Back to the Blackberry, in some towns such as 
Las Vegas, it is a geek free zone and GPRS is nice and snappy since 
nobody is using the data service. In the bay area, I've seen latency 
times of seconds, not miliseconds.

Casey Halverson wrote:
> For the same price of modernizing an older PDA to work on Sprint/etc,
> you can likely obtain a low end smart phone/blackberry/palm device for
> the same price.
>  
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net 
>>[mailto:talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net] On Behalf Of Roy W.
>>Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 8:35 PM
>>To: talk at seattlewireless.net
>>Subject: handheld device
>>
>>I'm looking for a type of low-cost device that has a 
>>touchscreen (monochrome ok) and can connect to the web via a 
>>major cellular service.
>>
>>So far I've found a lot of smartphones that have way more 
>>power than we need at high prices.  If I could just find a 
>>way to get old Palm pilots to connect to the web with Sprint 
>>or T-Mobile, etc., that would be all we need.
>>
>>Any ideas/info?
>>________________________________
>>Roy Wilkie
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