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s4xton · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:19 pm Post subject:

You won't need any additional cables unless you want a car charger. I charge mine every night at home and I never have problems. If you're a *very very* heavy user and you don't give it a 5 hour charge daily, you may have problems with battery life.

I have the leather (with brown stripes) case and I love it. There is one that comes with the device but I don't like it very much.

It comes with it's own e-mail address (i.e. kingb@tmail.com) which works very slick - once someone sends something, you'll immediatly get notified. You won't want to share it, or post that e-mail address, though, as you have no spam protection. You additionally can bind up to 3 different POP accounts and it will check mail from there every 10 minutes or so, or you can force it to check if you're waiting for something. You'll have a POP account from your ISP, but you won't have POP generally from the free webmail sites unless you pay a premium from Yahoo! or Hotmail, for instance.

-Aaron

jonsom · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 3:53 pm Post subject:

I just got a cable from Gomadic.com to connect my PDA to Cell Phone (Verizon) and am now able to browse the Internet, but I keep receiving an error message when I try to view geocaching.com any ideas? It work well for other web sites I visit.
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s4xton · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 7:29 am Post subject:

I'd take that to the geocaching.com forums. Be clear as to what browser you're using on your PDA. Blazer? Opera?

Very likely it's geocaching.com's fault, not your PDA/Browser's.

-Aaron

rickrich · Geocacher Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 673

I currently use my wife's Samsung phone with Sprint's $10/mo Vision Unlimited add-on and a USB data cable to connect that to my laptop. I get 60-120 kbits/sec when browsing the internet that way.

But its my wife's phone, which means I can't always borrow it. So I am thinking of getting another cell phone. The HipTop looks attractive, and seems to have a USB port. But I haven't been able to determine if the USB port can be used as a data modem so a laptop can also be connected to it. I like the idea of being able to browse with or without the laptop connected. But if I can't connect the big-screen laptop to it, then its a non-starter.

Anybody know the answer?

-Rick

s4xton · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 7:54 am Post subject:

The USB port can't be used for anything other than "software recovery" and managing the device if you have the device keyed. (i.e. testing apps if you're a developer) More info on that at http://developer.danger.com/

In the end, I don't think the hiptop will meet your needs, rickrich.

-Aaron

trypnotic79 · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 8:50 pm Post subject:

FYI I got my Amazon.com $220 rebate check last week. Took about five weeks. You're suppose to send them a copy of your first month bill, but T-mobile doesn't actually bill you until you've used your month up - in otherwords, they don't charge you one month in advance. I don't have enough cell phone billing experience to recall correctly if that's static through the industry... SO four weeks later after I got my bill, I was able to send in the paperwork then FIVE weeks later I got my check -- not bad, they were advertising 6-8 weeks and I know they were pretty overwhelmed with the offer.

At this time, it looks as though they have the exact same offer now as they did in January when I got my sidekick. $50 T-mobile rebate which came about two weeks after I got the phone... and a $220 Amazon.com rebate.
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SirPoonga · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 8:38 pm Post subject:

A garmin rhino with inet access, now that would be a cool product.

Our cell phones have gps in them, too bad you can't use it!