Originally Posted by The Disco Volante
Please help an ignorant person with a technology question. I would like mobile internet access and the ability to send and recieve emails. What is the best equipment for me? I will be using it in the UK and Europe. I'm not up to date on this stuff. Am I better off with a wi-fi enabled laptop, a Blackberry/PDA (dont actually know what a Blackberry is
) or some super mobile phone? Cost is not an imporatant consideration; being able to send or recieve an email from anywhere (and surf the FT boards from anywhere) is. Thanks.
I've got both the wi-fi enabled laptop and
Blackberry, and I have to admit that I've stopped carrying my laptop with me. Blackberry is perfectly adequate for internet access (FT is bearable rather than great, but it does work), and great for e-mail. For me, the killer USP is that I step off the plane, switch it on, and it works. No set-up issues, no funny passwords, credit cards etc, just a working GPRS connection.
But of course, others may have different thoughts (and in fairness, my laptop is 3 yrs old and weighs a ton!)