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Pocketmail

comitan - 5-5-2007 at 05:18 PM

Check this out email anywhere without computer.

http://www.pocketmail.com/

DENNIS - 5-5-2007 at 05:22 PM

Is that the one that is held next to a phone to activate?

comitan - 5-5-2007 at 05:38 PM

Dennis after more research yes. to bad thought it was through a satellite. Now stealing my own thread I read that Sirius radio is going to have limited TV on the Sirius radio screen.

DENNIS - 5-5-2007 at 05:42 PM

"Sirius radio screen"????

Jeezo..........The whole world has passed me by. I'll never catch up.

daveB - 5-5-2007 at 11:55 PM

Pocketmail, a blast from the past (the 70's technology) merged with the Internet...go toolin' down the highway, use a cell phone to send and get text messages. Stuck on the beach, no phone around (my kind of place) and rather have a few beers than waste a day away off in town? Get your friend who's going in to pick up your Internet messages for you, just hand him your pocketmail composer, your messages will be sent and incoming ones received. It's, well, keeping it simple you know...
And we're very Sirius too.

Love It

jettygirl - 5-6-2007 at 08:55 AM

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Originally posted by daveB
Pocketmail, a blast from the past (the 70's technology) merged with the Internet...go toolin' down the highway, use a cell phone to send and get text messages. Stuck on the beach, no phone around (my kind of place) and rather have a few beers than waste a day away off in town? Get your friend who's going in to pick up your Internet messages for you, just hand him your pocketmail composer, your messages will be sent and incoming ones received. It's, well, keeping it simple you know...
And we're very Sirius too.


Priceless !!!!!
You just solved my "need to go to town but I'm not out of beer yet" situation, as well as having to make more than one stop in town. Love it, just love it.
Thanks ;D

DanO - 5-6-2007 at 12:27 PM

It costs more per month, but with digital cellular widely available now, the Crackberry makes this gadget obsolete and you have always-on email anywhere you get a signal. Our place is out of range, but I can jump on the dirt bike and tool a few miles up to a ridge where I pick up a signal and send and respond to incoming messages. Any excuse to go for a ride is a good one, and the view from up there beats the hell out of the one from my office window.

We also used Pocketmail...

Mexray - 5-6-2007 at 12:36 PM

...for several years down in Baja. It was great till Internet Cafe's began to pop up all over - then the old Pocketmail got stuck on a shelf at home!

It's too easy to text on a cell phone these days, or stick a wireless card into the laptop and work direct!

What's next? Maybe it's time for the Satellite phones to really come into being, as it were, and be improved...they were probably just a little bit ahead of their time. Maybe a 'satellite card' to be stuck into your laptop to get your email, etc! Sign me up - just not with a two year contract!

daveB - 5-6-2007 at 10:47 PM

jettygirl, we're never out of beer-the Sol truck delivers the dos equis lagers with such wonderful, strangely, and unseen attention to my supply, hence the need for the ultimate simplicity of Pocketmail to keep me where I belong, down by the water.

We don't do Blackberry except for the nice jelly we do when at home - too fancy for me. Text messaging? Not there yet DanO, because we don't use a cell phone in Mexico. We do Internet but rarely, Mexray, and Pocketmail can be accessed there too, of course.

Pocketmail keeps me aprised of mostly personal events, and only of the bare need-to-know ones, I'm sorry/happy to admit. For best results with a cell phone, at least on mine, one must "force anolog." But in Mexico we stick to using public ones, the nearest is usually about 25 miles away, the calls can take as much as 90 seconds or as little as 35 seconds, to send and receive. Keeping it simple is a goal and Pocketmail can work, depending on your needs. No graphics of course unless picked up from a PC.

DanO - 5-6-2007 at 11:30 PM

Satellite email will be the next big thang. Which is fine, because I'd rather type than talk (not that I'm antisocial or anything, but don't people who want to be in Baja all the time just want to be left alone?). Just remember the first rule of email (and posting on the Internet) -- write your message, walk away for a few minutes, and then think about whether that's what you really want the world to see.