From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] RE: Off topic - Sony Clie PEG-NX70V
I'm going on the assumption that he's going to want to do this at as little cost as possible. Which means using his existing cell phone, assuming it's got an IR or cable interface, and connecting to his local AOL dialup server. So I think the bluetooth and all-in-one options will probably be too expensive. He's been wanting a notebook, and he could get a decent used one to do email and more that those prices.
Now the big question for me at this point is whether it's possible to connect a PDA via a cell phone into a local AOL dialup phone number. And as Otto mentioned, I guess the ISP has to support pop-mail. I wonder if AOL is that liberal. They do like to go their own way.
What's the deal with EudoraWeb? Is it a web browser and email client in one?
Matt
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Well it depends on how easily he wants to do it. Any PalmOS PDA with an IrDA port plus any phone with an IrDA port that supports standard data access can do it by running something like EudoraWeb (a web browser for Palm) then using infrared to link up with the cellphone. I've done it with my 3 year old Palm IIIxe and my 2 year old Nokia 8210 through Telstra Australia's WAP service (which is in fact a NAT'd TCP/IP link so you can run HTTP over it).
I just had a friend who knows nothing about technology ask me if I knew a PDA that would let him access his email with his cell phone on AOL (a dead giveaway, huh?) I found a site at AOL that said that as long as the PDA had an OS... I think it was v3.3 or greater, he wouldnn't need a modem (actually I know nothing about these at all). Though it didn't get into interfacing a PDA with a cell phone.
Does anyone on the list know what kind of PDA would be able to do this at a good price? And what the cell phone requirements may be if this is possible?
More elegantly however, you can get bluetooth compatible phones (such as the newer Nokias and Ericssons) plus bluetooth enabled PDAs (such as the newer iPaqs or the Sonys with bluetooth memory sticks in them) and do the same thing without needing line of sight. I'm pretty sure you can also do it through GPRS if the phone and network supports it which may make things a little cheaper from a service point of view (I'm not familiar with this though because I've never personally used GPRS).
Then there are the all-in-one phone-pdas from Handspring, Qualcomm and Motorola which can of course do similar things.
Hope this helps!
- Raymond
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