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I have the i500 and think it's the best phone I ever bought.
You can use it to send and receive pop3 and IMAP email using Snappermail, I
check four POP3 email addresses daily from the phone.
You can't use the phone as a modem to hotsync with your desktop. The is a
way to do it over the internet though. It says in the user manula you can't
use the phone to sync.
I'm not sure if you could use the phone as a modem at all. I haven't found
or looked for a modem driver for the phone.
1) You could use Vision but it's $15 per month and you can't take advantage
of the Vision downloads so I use Business Connection, that's $10 per month
and it's basically the same but a different name. You also can download the
Business Connection software, which allows you access to your files from the
phone but I don't use or need that much functionality at the moment.
2) I also have a Tungsten C and keep it home most of the time now that I
have this phone. When I add something new to contacts or calendar I just
beam it to the other device because each of my devices have different user
names. I've seen people do it other ways but I don't need to because of the
infrequency of me adding something new to calendar or contacts.
3) I think the whole phone is cool so everything I do with it is. I use it
mostly to track my quicken file and vehicle expenses using Pocket Quicken
and Auto Slate but I also have Take Phone installed and that helps out a lot
when looking for a number in contacts.
4) Links:
http://i500.nopdesign.com/apps.esiml
http://www.howardforums.com/
http://www.phonescoop.com/
http://www.aporia.us/mambo/index.php
Some others I go to sometimes from the phone itself:
http://www.pdamobileweb.com/
http://pdaportal.com/
http://home.comcast.net/~plinkit/
http://209.221.153.18/smallsites/
http://www.squeezenet.com/
http://www.weather.com/weather/local/11385?lswe=11385&l...
http://iwin2.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/textversion/
http://mobile.ups.com/omnisky/index.jsp
http://www.infospace.com/_1_4NYHUHB035TZ3HS__info.avant...
http://mobile.delta.com/
http://www.restrow.com/avantgo/
http://www.mapquest.com/pda/main.adp
http://pg1.yahoo.com/
<frank.wilder@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am thinking of upgrading to an i500. I have a few questions I am
> hoping that someone here can answer, because I keep getting conflicting
> info from SprintPCS.
>
> BTW: I have looked at the treos and they are just too big for me and I
> don't like using the keyboard. (I know you can get software that will
> allow you to write graffiti on the screen, but you still have all that
> keyboard space wasted)
>
> I plan to use the phone to do the following:
> - make phone calls
> - browse the web
> - check my POP3 email account
> - check my IMAP email account
> - check my gmail email account
> - maybe send/receive some text messages
> - remote hotsyncing with my primary computer
> - use as a datamodem for my laptop to access the Internet
> - use as a datamodem to hotsync a palmOS Symbol spt-1800 barcode
> scanner with a demo desktop that has a phone modem and is running the
> hotsync software (this is for work)
>
> I understand that I will have to install additional software to get
> some of the above functionality and that some of that software is not
> free.
>
> 1) What additional Sprint PCS services does one need to take full
> advantage of the i500? (i.e Will vision allow me to do all of the
> above)
>
> 2) I am already using a palm OS device, but I don't take it everywhere
> with me. I would like to be able to share my calendar and phonebook
> from my primary palmOS device with the i500. Is anyone doing this and
> if so...How???
>
> 3) What other cool things can you do with this phone?
>
> 4) Can you point me to any neat i500 websites you know about?
>
> Thanks
>