Which PDA wireless and phone is the best?

[Turbo55]

I'm trying to help my company get a PDA wireless and phone in one.

I've found three PDAs that has this combination:
Handspring Treo Communicator 300
T-Mobile PocketPC Phone Edition
Kyocera QCP 6035 Palm OS SmartPhone

I want to know which one has the best wireless and phone service in New York City. Any comments/suggestions will be appreciated.

 

[UNCjigga]

My friend in Manhattan told me Verizon and VoiceStream (T-Mobile) were the best in NYC. That said, I would get the T-Mobile PocketPC phone...only because its a PocketPC. You might wanna see how big that thing is though (I've never seen it.) The Treo 300 is probably the smallest, but its a Palm. I don't know how much of a PDA freak you are, but I don't think I'll ever buy another Palm to replace my CLIE...PocketPC is the OS of choice now.

 

[Kevin]

Originally posted by: Turbo55
I'm trying to help my company get a PDA wireless and phone in one. I've found three PDAs that has this combination: Handspring Treo Communicator 300 T-Mobile PocketPC Phone Edition Kyocera QCP 6035 Palm OS SmartPhone I want to know which one has the best wireless and phone service in New York City. Any comments/suggestions will be appreciated.

Treo Communicator 300 - Certain is Sprint - I've heard good stories and bad. Some love their service others curse it.

T-Mobile Pocket PC - I've had T-Mobile (aka Voicestream) for 2 years now and I haven't had any problems. Granted they have their fair-share or dead spots, most popular locations have full service. Most people seem to like Voicestream but I've spoken to a few people who hate it.

Kyocera QCP 6035 - Verizon? - I'm not sure about Verizon but I'm guessing its just like any other wireless company. Goods and Bads.

I've found that service is usually dependant on the phone, cheap phones equal cheap connection. The Treo and T-Mobile phones are around $500 you shouldn't have a problem. The Kyocera is the cheaper of them at $250, but I'm almost positive its been around for a long time whereas the T-Mobile and Treo are fairly new.

 

[Turbo55]

Does all these three phones has wireless features? If so, which one is better? Also, any other PDAs out there that can do both emails and phone calls?

 

[vegetation]

I have the Kyocera 6035 with Sprint. It's pretty nifty if you really need this type of package.

Pros: Excellent battery life, I can get over 1 week of standby with light usage of both phone and palm. True hardware voice activated dialing (not dependent on the carrier since it's processed onboard). Palm OS -- yes, it's old but there's a lot of useful software out there, more so than Pocket PC in my opinion.

Cons: Only 14.4 modem speed, can be painfully slow since actual data rates are much slower if you have a less than ideal connection. Ancient Palm 68K CPU is slow when doing things like rendering web pages. Physical size could be smaller. Some nasty bios bugs that can lock the unit up from time to time, requires a full hardware reset to fix (restore required). Backlighting is horrible, plus like all Palms, it's unusable in direct sunshine.