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I've been thinking alot about the new YadaYada deal with the free modem. I was originally chomping at the bit for the VisorPhone for voice/data. After looking at the release of the VP, and seeing that I am not in the initial rollout area (NY/NJ: First area they should have thought of), I am wondering what to do. I know Nokia's phone has an IR port on the side and is certainly tiny enough. If I toss a YY modem in the handspring, and just beam numbers across that should work shouldn't it? The YY modem would probably get me better data speed anyway.

I don't know what to do here.

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Be carful with the IR ports on the Nokia phones. I've heard that they don't activate them on the phones that are sold in the US.

BEN

While the visorphone is great if you need to dial-in to a corporate network that's behind a firewall (so you can't get in using OmniSky/YadaYada/GoAmerica wireless service), I should caution you about the service plans, which are not only very high for nationwide (free roaming & long distance) service, but also charge you $5/mo. AND $0.15/min. for ALL data calls! If I couldn't get my company to reimburse me for these charges, I would be hard-pressed to justify the expense. After all, if you are already paying a ton of money for a bunch of minutes, AND paying an additional monthly charge for the privilege of sending data, why should you have to pay a per-minute fee?

(Note that the PCS e-mail (aka SMS messaging) service is ALSO $5/mo. but at least they don't charge you additional per-message or per-minute fees for using it.)

"If I toss a YY modem in the handspring, and just beam numbers across that should work shouldn't it? The YY modem would probably get me better data speed anyway. "

What exactly do you mean by this? The yada-yada is a minstral configured to use yada-yada's service. How exactly do you intend to use a nokia phone with it ?

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"If I toss a YY modem in the handspring, and just beam numbers across that should work shouldn't it? The YY modem would probably get me better data speed anyway. "

What exactly do you mean by this? The yada-yada is a minstral configured to use yada-yada's service. How exactly do you intend to use a nokia phone with it ?

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