Socket Communications Mobile Email PocketPak for Sprint TouchPoint 100/120 Handsets

by Socket Mobile

Product Details

Product Manual [851kb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000560PW
• Item model number: DP3041-239
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #442,543 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 1, 2001

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Socket PocketPak for Sprint Touchpoint is a mobile e-mail kit that allows you use your handheld computer with your mobile phone for wireless e-mail and Internet access. This kit includes Socket's digital phone card, which connects a Pocket PC to a Sprint CDMA cell phone and allows the phone to function as a wireless modem.

The PocketPak comes with software for America Online and Microsoft Network; this allows you to connect wirelessly to the Internet and run e-mail in one easy step, eliminating the hassle of running two separate programs. The PocketPak also wirelessly enables Microsoft Pocket Inbox, which is included on Windows-powered Pocket PCs.

Socket's digital phone card is capable of transmitting and receiving data at up to 1 megabit per second (Mbps). The limitation in transfer speed is dependent on the wireless network--most CDMA networks currently operate at 14.4 Kbps, while most GSM networks currently operate at 9.6 Kbps. As the networks increase their data throughput the digital phone card is capable of going as fast as the networks for now and the foreseeable future.

Check with your service provider to make sure your cell phone is data capable and that data services are available in your area or are turned on for your account. Some carriers require that you turn on data services at an additional cost.

Other versions of the PocketPak are available for Motorola, Qualcomm, and Samsung phones.