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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

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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.)

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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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"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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