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T-mobile blackberry 7290 with the "web-configurable" email service talks to mail. Msu. Edu just fine. Plus its a decent phone with bluetooth, and can use (albiet slow) gprs via usb to your laptop for real connectivity. It doesn't beat my verizon 5220 pcmcia evdo card (in evdo cities - whiich lansing and detroit are not) Watch out for the typos on the bb keyboard. Composing this email on a bb qwerty kbd is pretty fast. J -----Original Message----- From: "Samone E. Jones" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:36:49 To:[log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Wireless Phone / PDA Provider Combination to Access MSU mail while away on business I have two users in my department that use the LifeDrive by Palm It doesn't have a phone but it does have built in Wi-fi that's seamless and it also has Bluetooth. They decided not to subscribe to any plans - they just pay for wi-fi access when available and get reimbursed by the university or use free wi-fi access points when available. As for pop email - we decided not to set it up in Versamail(the palm email software) and allow them instead to access their email through www.mail.msu.edu because we didn't want the extra delay in downloading it into Versamail - it was quicker just to view the email through the palm web browser on the www.mail.msu.edu site - which is readible and Not bad. What's nice about it also is that it can easily be used to synch their files on the server here on Campus - just like you synch the calendar, contacts... Basically you can use it like a giant 4GB USB drive which is nice. Bottom line - With the additional keyboard I think it's the first Palm that I've seen that can REALLY replace a laptop - but I think Palm erred in not including a phone - otherwise it would have been close to perfect. Samone E. Jones Information Technologists Family & Consumer Sciences Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 Voice: 517.432.4552 Fax: 517.353.4846 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lee Duynslager Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 10:42 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [MSUNAG] Wireless Phone / PDA Provider Combination to Access MSU mail while away on business Does anybody out there have users that use a wireless phone / PDA combo to directly access MSU mail pop server through an email client on the PDA when they are out of the office? If so, what provider do they use? Do you have Plan / Price Information? What Phone - PDA do they use? I am trying to avoid any remote syncing / solutions where I have to leave the users desktop up when they are on travel. Thanks, Lee Lee Duynslager Information Technologist Integrated Plant Systems Michigan State University (517) 432-5296