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device to download/send email

  • 15-01-2006 5:51pm
    #1
    Leilani Kind Tungsten
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Leilani Kind Tungsten


    Can anyone suggest a device that would allow me to download email for reading offline and also sending email written offline? The cheapest thing possible please...!!


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  • #2
    bp_me
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    A Blackberry???


  • #3
    Leilani Kind Tungsten
    Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ Leilani Kind Tungsten


    well I was just looking for some advice....the Blackberry is quite contemporary and therefore bit pricey....surely there's some older devices available....there's loads of old pda's on eBay I just don't know which is best....

    aren't the palm supposed to be the best pda's?


  • #4
    bp_me
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    A palmtop and a phone with IRDA or bluetooth could do this also.

    As for best PDA, that is quiet subjective and best is based totally on your needs. I had a palmtop, but it died. I rarely used it anyway, except for a few mp3s when i was walking with it.


  • #5
    Random
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    Isn't the idea of a Blackberry that it's sorta an "always on" connection? Given that it's advertised as making sure it checks your mail every x minutes ...


  • #6
    bp_me
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    ciaranfo wrote:
    Isn't the idea of a Blackberry that it's sorta an "always on" connection? Given that it's advertised as making sure it checks your mail every x minutes ...

    They use GPRS but I thought they used the WAP-push method. I.e. the server tells the device there is email to collect rather than the device checking. Worth further research anyway.


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  • #7
    Random
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    Yeh, but the point is that not much is done "offline" as such. It's always live and "online".


  • #8
    half_dead
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    I seem to remember there being an e-mail service (Yahoo I think) that you could register your number with and they would send you the info via text and you could answer the mail (via text) also...

    I had something like it set up in an old job but (of course) it was handled by the IT section:rolleyes: ... I was on a Nokia 7650 at the time.

    If you got it up and running with Yahoo all you'd need do is divert your current mail address to a new one with them and Robert's your Fathers' Brother!:D


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