[pct-l] Pocketmail out of stock until end of April

[Craig Stanton]

I'm using a similar solution for my next trip (http:// 
onemanwalking.com). A Nokia N810 which has a built in keyboard and  
BlueTooth. But I don't think I would have used it on the PCT without  
a separate cellphone to help me transmit from smaller places which  
you'd come across a lot. Take Tuolumne Meadows for example, you're  
not going to get WiFi there, but I saw people using cellphones. The  
beauty of Pocketmail is the coverage of landlines in every town you  
reach, so if you can wait until then you're fine. But if you're just  
busting to send emails every night (along with photos though that'll  
take ages) a palm-top computer and tethered phone is the way to go  
for now.


~Craig

On 26/01/2008, at 8:25 AM, Judith G wrote:

> I met a bicyclist who was cycling cross-country last year and he
> showed me the device he was using to keep a journal at
> CrazyGuyOnABike.com.  It was a small computer (size of a deck of
> cards) with a separate folding keyboard.  The keyboard "spoke" to the
> computer via BlueTooth, and he would use it in his tent every night
> to do his daily journaling.  Then when he was someplace with WiFi
> (library, motel, Starbucks, etc.) his tiny computer would upload to
> the internet.  Whatimpressed me was that the the folding keyboard
> opened up to full size, which looked a whole lot easier to type on
> than a PocketMail device.  I have never used either one, but I did
> follow his journal as he continued his trip so it seemed to work for
> him.  These are the components he used:
>
>> My computer is an H.P. iPAQ 5915 and the keyboard is a Think
>> Outside blue tooth jobbie, I don't know the model number offhand.
>
> I don't know that this will completely translate over into the PCT
> hiker world, but I thought I'd mention it in case someone is looking
> for an alternative to Pocketmail.  The keyboard seems to work with
> many different types of "computer" devices, including "smart
> phones."  Again, I don't have one and just trying to compose a
> literate email describing what I saw has exhausted my pitiful fund of
> knowledge about such things.
>
> Two Legs
>
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