Inselaffe
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mobile email so that I can \'work\' onboard
Hello All,
A pretty specific Q about mobile phones and working from the boat, and hence extending my sailing time dramatically!
I work from home a lot and want to extend this to my boat, but I'd like to keep an eye on my emails from there. I won't need to use the net unless in emergency (I can do that at home with flatrate DSL), just emails. I sometimes get quite large attachements (sometimes up to 10MB), so the ability to use webmail or some other way of seeing the list of emails & subjects without downloading all would be really useful -if it's important (i.e. from the boss!) then I will have to go home to download it. My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A30.
My phone company (in Germany) will give me one of the following two phones as an upgrade free, so the choice is nicely narrowed down:
Siemens CX70: email, GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), Data speed 32 - 48 kbps, USB port
Nokia 6610i: HSCSD, GPRS Class 6 (3+1/2+2 slots), Data speed 24 - 36 kbps, Pop-Port interface
I found a full comparison at http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone2=742&idPhone1=869
I never got inspired by mobile phones, so I don't really have a clue which would best suit my needs, is it better to have the HSCDS of the Nokia (but do I have to make sure that that a service for this is provided and at what cost?), or the email (but what about large attachements?) and faster GPRS of the Siemans, or is there something that I have completely missed?
Other features aren't important to me.
Thanks
Hello All,
A pretty specific Q about mobile phones and working from the boat, and hence extending my sailing time dramatically!
I work from home a lot and want to extend this to my boat, but I'd like to keep an eye on my emails from there. I won't need to use the net unless in emergency (I can do that at home with flatrate DSL), just emails. I sometimes get quite large attachements (sometimes up to 10MB), so the ability to use webmail or some other way of seeing the list of emails & subjects without downloading all would be really useful -if it's important (i.e. from the boss!) then I will have to go home to download it. My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A30.
My phone company (in Germany) will give me one of the following two phones as an upgrade free, so the choice is nicely narrowed down:
Siemens CX70: email, GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), Data speed 32 - 48 kbps, USB port
Nokia 6610i: HSCSD, GPRS Class 6 (3+1/2+2 slots), Data speed 24 - 36 kbps, Pop-Port interface
I found a full comparison at http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone2=742&idPhone1=869
I never got inspired by mobile phones, so I don't really have a clue which would best suit my needs, is it better to have the HSCDS of the Nokia (but do I have to make sure that that a service for this is provided and at what cost?), or the email (but what about large attachements?) and faster GPRS of the Siemans, or is there something that I have completely missed?
Other features aren't important to me.
Thanks