Adam Kalsey

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Why Treo Mail?

14 May 2002

At first look the new email app for the Treo looks like a great product, but after looking into the costs more, I don’t like it. It costs between $50 and $100 per year for the service that forwards your email to your phone. That’s a good price until you find out that you also pay cellular airtime while you access your mail.

Each time you check your mail, the Treo connects to the server and downloads the messages through POP3. The download takes 1-2 minutes, so if you check your mail 10 times a day you are burning 700 minutes of airtime a month.

Compare this to the BlackBerry which charges $40 a month for access to your email. You don’t need to poll the server for mail, since the software forwards the mail to the device each time a message arrives.

So what’s so great about Treo Mail?

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