[ale] OT - Wireless Data Service options

[James P. Kinney III]

Of the people I know who use them, they have been rather happy. The
biggest weirdness I have seen has been the installed PalmOS is different
for different service providers. This makes for different application
details. One provider has an addressbook that can't be searched by
anything but the person's name field while another can search on any
field.

Coverage is of course dependent on the provider. The further away from
the interstate and/or major city, the flakier the coverage. The more
mountainous, the flakier the coverage. North Georgia (Jasper and up) has
TERRIBLE access (to data services, cell phone, schools, dentistry, etc.)
so keep all that in mind.

So who made the decision to roll out today and _then_ do the analysis
work?

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 08:36, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with the Palm Trio 600 and any of the 
> available service providers?  A client has expressed a desire to roll 
> these things out (today), and wants a recommendation.  They're wanting 
> wireless e-mail (closest thing to blanket coverage available), and they 
> want to e-mail .pdf and Excel attachments back and forth.  The biggest 
> thing is going to be coverage (they're a construction company, and will 
> need their field folks, who are generally in the middle of nowhere, to 
> be able to send / receive stuff).
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