Shitty E-Mail Software and Web Browser in Treo 600

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Hello,

I purchased the Treo 600 and contracted with T-Mobile for Internet and
Data Service. In a way, I regretted the decision because of poor
softwares included in the Treo 600.

I did not learn of its severe shortcomings until I began to use Treo
600 and spoke with T-Mobile and Palm One customer service personnel
over the period of few weeks.

As a Deaf consumer, I value the two-way paging or instant e-mail
service. I learnt that Palm One chose to omit this sort of service
when Danger Sidekick and RIM Blackberry have their own: tmail.com and
tmo.blackberry.net respectively. That is why Sidekick and Blackberry
are insanely popular with the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing consumers.

SMS (or text-messaging) option is not ideal as I must pay $0,15 per
instance and be contended with its 160-character limitation. SMS is
not inclusive in the Internet and Data Service at all.

The inclusive e-mail software is a big joke as it cannot process the
HTML-based e-mails and cannot ping the POP3 in interval shorter than
fifteen minutes. I am forced to trial the expensive third-party e-mail
softwares only to find them margially better, namely The Snapper. I am
not confident about the Snapper because its possessive tendency to
take over Treo 600 during its sending and receiving sessions.

The web browser cannot handle the frame-based web sites. I have tried
every possible way to jump from one frame to other.

For the cost of Treo 500, I feel Palm One ought include the AOL
Instant Messenger software and others, too. I tried Webmessenger and
found it extremely frustrating, requiring the stylus to navigate
amongst the option buttons.

Any suggestion for better e-mail software and web browser that don't
cost too much?

Regards,
Oliver

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On 27-Sep-2004, om@pcisys.net (Oliver Markwirth) Flushed this thought from his
brain to the screen::

> For the cost of Treo 500, I feel Palm One ought include the AOL
> Instant Messenger software and others, too. I tried Webmessenger and
> found it extremely frustrating, requiring the stylus to navigate
> amongst the option buttons.

AOL IM for Palm was still a free download on the UK website, last time I
looked. I use a plan with Cingular called "Data Connect" that burns my daytime
minutes instead of by the Kbyte or Mbyte. That way, I can connect to a "free"
ISP (like Access-4-free) and have a 15 minute chat without being charged for
each line as each one is a single SMS message.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with the Treo, and don't know how AOL IM would
be implemented. I'm using a Z72 with a SE T616 cell.

WyreNut

PS - Obscenities in the header really makes you look bad...

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Many thanks! It has been very helpful. I found lot of better web sites
for Treo 600 softwares.