Re: PDA for Email
DustinN955@aol.com
Wed, 17 Jan 1996 23:00:34 -0500
There are three bad things about using the Zoomer for E-Mail that I have come
across. (I assume that you are going to be using the installed AOL for this.)
Number one is the slow speed (2400bps) that AOL limits you to. The second,
and most important, is the fact that the AOL program on the Zoomer will not
let you read your mail offline, as the PC version will. You can only read
your mail while the on-line charge meter is running, and that can be
expensive if you have to check your mail twice a day or so. Third, you cannot
delete mail that you have read from the Zoomer. If I read anything on my
Zoomer, I have to delete those letters from a PC later on. Someone out there
might have a work around for these problems, but if so, I haven't heard it
yet. If you can live with these quirks (and I have been able to) the Zoomer
is a wonderful little PDA that can be effectively used for E-Mail and MANY
more things. I would give it a 6.75 on a 10 scale. I really enjoy mine. I
also have a Newton, but don't use it for E-Mail due to the fact that I would
have to set up a new account (another nine bucks a month), not to mention,
spend $180 bucks for a PC Card modem ($90 for the external one, both 2400bps)
when I can use my existing AOL account and my $35 PC Card modem for my Zoomer
to accomplish the same thing. Hope this helps.
BTW-Has anyone gotten the AMT PC Card modem to work on a Newton MP100? Mine
will recognize it as a communication card, but won't do much else. Since this
is a Zoomer list, feel free to reply to me personally.
Take care all.
Dustin R. Newton
University of Alabama Health Services Foundation
Department of Medicine Information Systems
Birmingham, Alabama USA
dustinn955@aol.com