Re: Blackberry in Alaska?

First, I work for GCI so I am clueless on the usage charges.

Second, my investment in a quad-band, unlocked International Treo 650 was
my own idea, not GCI's.

Third, the Treo 650 is the marriage of a top end Palm PDA and a quad-band
G3 phone. It has all of the usual top-end phone features like camera, video
camera, Bluetooth and SMS. As a PDA, it has a regular contact and schedule
databases as well as a real Internet email client, a real web browser and an
MP3 player. I have also added a movie player, IM, IRC, 10 astronomy
programs, 5 games, various office productivity tools (compatible PDA
versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint), various system utilities and some
other fun stuff like an HP-41programmable calculator emulator. It also has
an SD memory card slot.

It was expensive but I sure do love it.

-Christopher Erickson (GCI Internet Engineering)

BTW, there is a replacement GCI Internet Forum that can be found here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gci-internet

Pass the word.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Dory <jim.dory@gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:50 am
Subject: Re: Blackberry in Alaska?

> Hi Christopher - thanks!
>
> another option, oh boy! I quickly googled Treo and SIM and am a bit
> unclear yet. I haven't located charges yet for GCI SIM usage - I see
> the phones are up to about $700 (unless they are discounted somewhere)
> but what charges do you need to have through GCI? I assume you
> have a
> cell plan through them? (I know, I could call them, but perhaps a bit
> of knowledge first would help that phone call go better).
>
> So for email, you could just use webmail to read email on your Treo?
> You don't have the pull (or push?) that blackberry uses for email?
> Basically it is just a cell phone that accesses the internet web - or
> is it more?
>
> Would you care to elaborate on why you prefer it over blackberry? That
> may help my understanding a lot - and I can pass on
> recommendations to
> the manager.
>
>
> Apologies to the list for off topic-ness, but in the end I would
> probably be looking at setting up Novell Groupwise or something,
> anything to avoid MS Exchange learning curves if possible to let that
> thing work with blackberry - not sure if at all possible from Nome but
> perhaps one day we will have a decent cell service here.
>
> /cheers, Jim
>
> On 4/27/05, Christopher Erickson <cerickson@gci.net> wrote:
> > I recently purchased an unlocked Treo 650 and popped my GCI SIM card
> > into it. Works perfectly. Full Internet access. I much prefer
> the Treo=
> 650
> > over the Blackberry.
> >=20
> > Don't think Internet access will work in Nome yet however.
> >
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