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coldfish · 02-11-2008, 02:21 PM

Hi,
I'm going to Italy for 3 months later this year. Right now, both my wife and I have a Treo 650. They are from Sprint, so I know that they won't work and I need to get new ones. So, the first question is, Should I upgrade? I'd probably just upgrade mine, as hers is for personal use and mine is business (and is beat to death).
If I should upgrade, I couldn't care less if it is windows mobile or palm, I like Palm fine, but work on windows machines everyday and it should be OK. I use email constantly. I text back and forth constantly, as well as use it for alerts of server failures (I run a web design company), so I need those features.
As far as travel, I understand that europe is all GSM, also it is on a different band than US gsm phones. I really don't want to spend $300 on a new phone that only works in Europe, so I need a tri-band (I think).

Finally, the big questions: I've never used a SIM card and am unsure about it's use in a Treo. Answers anyone? I will have to ditch Sprint (which is costing me about $400 a month for 3 phones, anyway). I'm not sure if I should simply make the decision based upon the international rates, since I'll be calling 90% clients in USA, or if I should get the minimum plan for 3 months and then upgrade to the max, using one of these phone-cards to get a phone number. Then there is the question of a phone number....

Some of my clients insist on calling my cell and it would be annoying if I had to change from my sprint number, to some italian number, and then back again to a US number! Any suggestions?

Sorry for being so long-winded, but I'm really at a loss here and you folks seem to be right on top of everything.

... oh yeah, email connections.... do I need a european service for that, or will a us servce do it. Sprint has unlimited and I can't afford to pay by the message! I get hundreds!

02-11-2008, 02:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
coldfish Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Traveling to Europe (italy) for 3 months Hi, I'm going to Italy for 3 months later this year. Right now, both my wife and I have a Treo 650. They are from Sprint, so I know that they won't work and I need to get new ones. So, the first question is, Should I upgrade? I'd probably just upgrade mine, as hers is for personal use and mine is business (and is beat to death). If I should upgrade, I couldn't care less if it is windows mobile or palm, I like Palm fine, but work on windows machines everyday and it should be OK. I use email constantly. I text back and forth constantly, as well as use it for alerts of server failures (I run a web design company), so I need those features. As far as travel, I understand that europe is all GSM, also it is on a different band than US gsm phones. I really don't want to spend $300 on a new phone that only works in Europe, so I need a tri-band (I think). Finally, the big questions: I've never used a SIM card and am unsure about it's use in a Treo. Answers anyone? I will have to ditch Sprint (which is costing me about $400 a month for 3 phones, anyway). I'm not sure if I should simply make the decision based upon the international rates, since I'll be calling 90% clients in USA, or if I should get the minimum plan for 3 months and then upgrade to the max, using one of these phone-cards to get a phone number. Then there is the question of a phone number.... Some of my clients insist on calling my cell and it would be annoying if I had to change from my sprint number, to some italian number, and then back again to a US number! Any suggestions? Sorry for being so long-winded, but I'm really at a loss here and you folks seem to be right on top of everything. ... oh yeah, email connections.... do I need a european service for that, or will a us servce do it. Sprint has unlimited and I can't afford to pay by the message! I get hundreds!