On 3 Nov 99, 22:25, pel wrote: > Many members of my family have email, but my grandmother doesn't, > because she's a technophobe. We'd like to have her in the email loop, > and so I proposed giving her an old 486 computer and paying for net > service so she could have email. She said "NEVER!". I proposed Juno, > same response. > > But, we're not giving up... Is there anything like a dedicated email > device like a PDA or something that _just_does_email_ and is > _dead_simple_ for an 81 year-old technophobe to use? I heard there is > something like a phone with a little keyboard and a screen that does > email. A PDA would be good, but it has to have nice big clear letters > for 81 YO eyes. > > Since I would be paying for it lock, stock and barrel, I hope it doesn't > cost too much. I don't know what your budget is, but perhaps you might check into Digital Cellular Phones. Digital Cellular Phones use the same radio technology as cell phones (in different frequency bands - for example, PCS phones use frequencies between 1.85 and 1.99 gigahertz) but compress your voice into digital 1s and 0s. This compression allows between 3 and 10 cell phone calls to occupy the space of a single analog voice call. PCS digital phones also offer other features like paging and email. PCS is short for Personal Communications Service, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) term used to describe a set of digital cellular technologies being deployed in the U.S. PCS includes CDMA (also called IS-95), GSM, and North American TDMA (also called IS-136). See PCSData.com for more information: http://www.pcsdata.com/ Your grandmother may not think much of e-mail, but I bet you she would be thrilled to get a cell phone as a gift. :-) Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
