PDA / Smart Phone advice please, ASAP

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depoysterfanx

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I need to try to make a decision today, so I sure would appreciate any advice I can get please.

I am a high volume user, I am on a 6,000 min family plan and use most of it. I travel the southeast and I'm on the road about 80% of the time. I use outlook for email and I have used a MPX220 and a SX66,

The MPX-220 was a great phone but I also needed to carry my HP4705 pda too, however It was great to have my total customer base sync up to my phone and all my outlook info to be right there for my fingertips.

The MPX had great signal and good bluetooth, my SX 66 bluetooth is the worst of anything I have ever heard of [3' if i'm lucky] and the audio is lousy.

the ability to send and receive e-mail and or teather [I haven't done it but it sounds great] would be nice, its that or get a card for my notebook.

I can get a good pda phone or look like a total geek and use my 4705 hp and a phone. Blue tooth is a must. and great signal is important.

I any suggestions? I have looked at the new HP HW6515 and the Trio 650, but I'm open for any suggestions.

For rual areas I have a WIlson Cellular Amplifer that works wonderfully for low signal / no signal areas but that is a passive connection so an external antenna isn't an issue.

A car kit would be nice but I can always get a bluetooth car kit.

Thanks for your advice in advance.
 
Nice to see another southern on here

I just switched to the Cingular 2125 / HTC Faraday Smartphone and am pretty pleased with it. There were some "getting-to-know-you" issues with the phone, but its settling in nicely.

My Plantronics Voyager 510 gets about 35 foot range over bluetooth with this phone. More without walls in the way, less with thick walls (read: concrete). I'm pretty darned impressed!

I am syncing with outlook (desktop) and IMAP (over the air). So far, no major problems.

Reception is nothing less than stellar. In areas that I *ALWAYS* lost signal with my old phone I generally drop down to 2 bars instead of 4. Even in my office building I no longer lose signal in the elevator - something even Verizon customers suffer from here.

Overall, if you want a smartphone, the 2125 is pretty impressive. It has a QVGA screen, so everything is nice and crisp. If you want a Pocket PC... someone else can help you there
 
If you want a pocket pc, wait for the 8125 to come out. all the details on that handset are available in the Cingular phones forum.
 
It sounds like he (?) needs to make a decision today - I assumed he (?) intended to act on that decision by purchasing or otherwise ordering a device today.

The 8125 looks like a great PPC phone, but nobody knows when it will come out.
 
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