PocketMail

Today we received our new PocketMail device--a PDA that we will use to maintain our journal while we are hiking. This entry is being typed on this device. Our entries will emailed to this blog. The email transmission occurs by holding the pda up to a telephone and dialing into the Pocketmail service. The data--in our case, saved emails--is transmitted in the same manner as a fax machine and our little pda makes the same type of chatter as the emails are being sent.

As this is my first time using the device I'm finding the keying a bit awkward, but I'm sure I'll get used to it as time passes.

The pda weighs 8 oz--so I'm sure we'll be fighting over who has to carry it.