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New York Times
October 7, 2001
Travel Desk; Section 5
Page 13, Column 5
Letters to the Editor: Getting E-Mail
To the Editor: There's a much easier solution to e-mail on the road abroad than searching for cybercafes or Internet kiosks ("Spinning a Web Link on the Road" by Bob Tedeschi, Aug. 26). It's called PocketMail: a nine-ounce device about the size of a checkbook that contains an acoustic modem. (Although lots of phones don't have detachable cords, they all have handsets.) You type your message - there's a keyboard and screen - then dial a number form any telephone (free in the United States, England and Australia, a toll call elsewhere). You then hold the device up to the handset and it makes that analog beeping sound as it sends and receives all your e-mails in a matter of seconds. The service costs $15 a month. (www.pocketmail.com).
The device now being used is a PocketMail Composer, and costs about $100. A $5 or $10 phone card abroad, bought easily at most newsstands or tobacco shops, usually lasted me more than a week with daily use.
I used my unit, than a TM-20 made by Sharp, on a motorcycle trip across Europe and in China, and across the United States. It worked everywhere.
PETER W. SELKOWE
Racine, Wis.
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Media Contact
Richard Shaw
PocketMail Group Limited
Sydney, Australia
(02) 9955 0500
richard.shaw@pkt.com.au
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