Just before my trip with Val to Nebraska, I got a Handspring Treo 300. It’s a great product. The T300 is made by Handspring for Sprint PCS (there are other models for the competing networks), and the Sprint network is supposedly the best one running right now for wireless data.
My plan has unlimited data, which is really nice. Supposedly, you can add unlimited data to any Sprint plan for $10/mo. I hadn’t been very happy with Sprint’s service, but it’s much better with this phone than it was before. I can typically drive across the bridge without dropping a call, which never worked with my other phone.
The phone itself is basically a Palm with a cell phone all-in-one. It can read e-mail, browse the web (with an HTML browser, not just a WAP one) and most other stuff you’d expect from a wireless Palm.
Apple’s new iSync program allows me to sync the Treo (or any Palm Powered device) to my PowerBook, which is nice. The syncing is really slow right now, but hopefully by the time iSync gets out of it’s current beta period, things will get faster.
Here’s a nice kicker: I just got software to use the Treo as a wireless USB modem for my PowerBook. That’s right folks, I’m posting this connected only to my Treo with a USB cable, and I’m connected to the ’Net at 230,000bps! Sweet! This is a nice gadget.