Yes the inability to use cell phones is going to be more and more a problem
as analog disappears.

In thinking about the backflip keep in mind it only works with the Palm III
series and the Palm V when used with a connector.

Bob




On 7/5/07 2:59 PM, "Les Cobb" <w6tee@...> wrote:

> Bob:
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> 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!
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> Les
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