Bob:

Very interesting reading! Thank you for sharing it with us. I have the
current Palm PDA with Wi-Fi and thought about the backflip, but as you
inferred, it is analog only. PocketMail will have to do something next
year when cellular providers will be allowed to turn analog off. The
only solution has been the Composer, which only works with TDMA digital,
and with GSM and iDEN, which are special cases of TDMA. Despite the
noise about certain providers going to GSM for International
compatibility, US and European GSM providers are inching toward
broadband solutions that are really CDMA. I don't know the reasons why
they can't pass PocketMail modem signals over CDMA, but if they could
have, I'm sure they would have done it. My new CDMA phone can still be
set to analog, only because I hand-picked the model, but next March, my
major provider can legally pull the switch, and I expect they will.
Thank goodness they still have phones in motel rooms, although I stayed
in one where the previous owner had taken them out, but the new owner
was putting them back. Fortunate because the concrete block
construction blocked cellular, and you had to stand outside to make a
call!

Les