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Posted by Verizon User on June 19, 2006, 8:36 pm
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I need a handheld device that wi-fi's so I can check email's on trips and
not take a laptop.
I am looking at the TX.
Can it do this?
I am often in an evironment with wifi. I want the palm to check my email
every 10 minutes or some such frequency, but I don't want to leave it on and
connected via wi-fi the whole time (battery will die quickly)
Can VersaMail be set so it checks for email via the wi-fi every so often,
and then only keep the wi-fi on for the time it is checking mails?
Or do I have to manually turn on wi-fi, then check mail, and then turn off
my wi-fi?
Is there a better device than the TX which I should look at?
Thanks.
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Posted by Laurent Bugnion on June 20, 2006, 4:49 am
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Hi,
Verizon User wrote:
> I need a handheld device that wi-fi's so I can check email's on trips and
> not take a laptop.
>
> I am looking at the TX.
>
> Can it do this?
> I am often in an evironment with wifi. I want the palm to check my email
> every 10 minutes or some such frequency, but I don't want to leave it on and
> connected via wi-fi the whole time (battery will die quickly)
>
> Can VersaMail be set so it checks for email via the wi-fi every so often,
> and then only keep the wi-fi on for the time it is checking mails?
> Or do I have to manually turn on wi-fi, then check mail, and then turn off
> my wi-fi?
Versamail can be set to check an email account as follows:
- Every N hour from XX o'clock to yy o'clock every <weekday>. Pretty
flexible.
If WiFi is totally off, Versamail can not on WiFi on its own. However,
if WiFi was on and then you switch your palm off without turning off
WiFi first, then Versamail will be able to switch the device on, connect
to the router, and then load the emails.
Unfortunately, after checking for emails, the device won't be turned off
automatically. That said, after 2 minutes (you can also choose another
duration), the device will turn itself off, thus disconnecting from
WiFi. What I mean is, if WiFi is on, but not active, the device still
turns off.
I use this feature with QuickNews to load all the RSS feeds I want
before I wake up.
> Is there a better device than the TX which I should look at?
If you have big emails with attachments, then you might prefer a
LifeDrive, as the storage is bigger. I have one and am very delighted
with it, despite all bad reviews found online.
>
> Thanks.
HTH,
Laurent
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Posted by Paul Nevai on June 20, 2006, 7:23 am
Please log in for more thread options :Versamail can be set to check an email account as follows:
:
:- Every N hour from XX o'clock to yy o'clock every <weekday>. Pretty
:flexible.
This never worked on my Palms: TC and TX. Only crashes or nothing happened.
/PaulN
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Posted by Cyclops on July 25, 2006, 4:38 pm
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nevai wrote:
> This never worked on my Palms: TC and TX. Only crashes or nothing happened.
I use my T3 with a WiFi card, when I'm in a hot spot I turn on the auto
connect/disconnect and works fine.
Someone complained about logins for Starbucks and such, my college used
to do that and it would tell you via WebPro (login via www was required
before anything would work) that your login didn't work even when it
did. So, I'd fire up webpro, login, even if it says it failed, try
versamail, your login should last x amount of time while you're at a
hotspot.
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Posted by Verizon User on June 20, 2006, 7:09 pm
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>
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> Unfortunately, after checking for emails, the device won't be turned off
> automatically. That said, after 2 minutes (you can also choose another
> duration), the device will turn itself off, thus disconnecting from WiFi.
> What I mean is, if WiFi is on, but not active, the device still turns
> off.=
Thanks for your help. But after the device turns off, will it turn bck on
again to check mails at whatever pretedermined frequency you set? And if
wi-fi is on, but power turns off, is wi-fi on again when the palm wakes up?
Thanks.
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