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 Pen Computing Magazine
March 2001, p. 60, User Tales
Palm makes mission work easier
How Palm computers help one reverend on his travels
"It'll never work", scoffed my colleague in Abuja as I went to send email from a telephone using the PocketMail system. Four native Nigerians were standing there pointing and laughing at my little Palm while they learned I was going to use it to send email.
Email has been a special problem for us on our mission trips. Telephone systems vary, as well as hookups. We had taken laptops with us with plans to email those back home. No luck. The laptop wired to the local telephone company would not work. Last year I purchased the PocketMail BackFlip for the PocketMail System. The wireless device snaps onto the back of my Palm with ease. After composing an email message, I put the earpiece of the receiver against the earpiece of the PocketMail BackFlip, and pressed the soft button on the screen. An amazing little unit, it immediately began to "talk" to the PocketMail computer back in the US with a series of beeps. Seven minutes later, all my email for the last week was now on my Palm, and our outgoing messages were on their way.
My colleague was lost for words (a rarity) and the four Nigerians were now laughing and slapping each other on the back as they celebrated the PocketMail's victory. If I can find a telephone that can call out of the country, I can send and receive email in any developing nation.
Excerpted from the full article by
Rev. Jan L. Beaderstadt, OSL
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PocketMail Group Limited
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richard.shaw@pkt.com.au
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