Yes. I do this routinely in the SF bay and other places I travel. I browse the web, and I read my POP3 email. I even get the first 100 characters of all my email sent to my phone - I now effectively have an 'email waiting' light (very cool) in my pocket at all times. there are several ways to do this, and I wrote up the way I went (a GSM + Psion PDA combo). The article discusses my 5mx, but I now use the smaller Revo. There is also a port of linux to this PDA family at www.calcaria.net (surprised no one has mentioned it).
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Yes. I do this routinely in the SF bay and other places I travel. I browse the web, and I read my POP3 email. I even get the first 100 characters of all my email sent to my phone - I now effectively have an 'email waiting' light (very cool) in my pocket at all times. there are several ways to do this, and I wrote up the way I went (a GSM + Psion PDA combo). The article discusses my 5mx, but I now use the smaller Revo. There is also a port of linux to this PDA family at www.calcaria.net (surprised no one has mentioned it).