r520m, many good features and inexpensive

When I started looking for a new phone my criteria were: I did some research and found that the pre-Sony Ericsson r520 series phone was the darling of the business traveler. Triband, bluetooth, infrared, email/smtp client built in, WAP, and plentiful/reasonable on eBay.

Why T-Mobile Easyspeak Prepaid is a better value for me

Tmo prepaid is actually less expensive for me than my SprintPCS postpaid account was. This is mainly because I use very few voice mins. Here's the text of a post I amade on this subject: 
Newsgroups: alt.cellular.gsm.carriers.voicestream
From: Frater Mus 
Subject: Re: No picture message for Easyspeak?
References: <20040610100435.02231.00000666@mb-m14.aol.com> 
Organization: Team Mousetrap
Reply-To: FraterMus2004@mousetrap.net
Followup-To: 

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 at 10:42 GMT,  wrote:
> T-Mobile prepaid is a rip-off. Very expensive. They're great for
> post-paid but they really create a hole in your wallet for pre-paid
> and treat you like shit in the process.

T-Mo has treated me well, both on the phone and in the service they
provide.

> Long as you do AUTOMATIC billing with a credit, debit or bank account,
> you can get 500 anytime minutes with FREE nights and weekends. Yes,
> you heard right: FREE NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS for $49.99.

$49.99 is much more than I pay with TMO prepaid.

Since I use very few voice minutes but do use lots of SMS and GPRS,
T-Mob easyspeak is a great solution for me.

Here are my costs so far:

$27 - used GSM triband/bluetooth/infrared phone off eBay (r520m)
$17 - T-Mob signup SIM off eBay (with minutes on it), assigned local #
$25 - additional card to get the "1 year expiration" deal

$69 total, $42 if you don't count the phone.

For $69 I got a worldband phone, a year of WAP and free incoming SMS
(with free incoming email-->sms addy), free outgoing SMS (when routed
over GPRS), POP/SMTP through the phone.

*And* the voice mins which I rarely use.  My voice min average is about
90mins/month. 

I also have the lowest minute SprintPCS (300 mins) and never get close
to using them, the network and phone were proprietary, and had to pay
extra to enable SMS and then pay for the SMS themselves. Cancelled my
SprintPCS this month.

ATT 500 min plan above @90mins/month (described above), data? = $49.95 
Sprint 300 min plan using 90mins/month, no data = $38.00
Sprint 300 min plan using 90mins/month, data = $42.95 + SMS costs
TMO Easyspeak 90mins/month, free data* (assuming $25 refill cards) = $25.00/mo
TMO Easyspeak 90mins/month, free data* (assuming $50 refill cards) = $18.51/mo
TMO Easyspeak 90mins/month, free data* (assuming $100 refill cards) = $13.55/mo

and if you've gone over the magic $250 number:
TMO Easyspeak 90mins/month, data (assuming $100 refill cards, getmore) = $9.00/mo

So for someone like me who has a good phone and uses more data than voice
easyspeak can be a good deal.  If you're a person who talks on a
cellphone alot then maybe it's not good for you.

But it's hardly a ripoff. The costs are stated upfront and known to
the educated consumer.

fm
* routing out outbound SMS over GPRS

Routing SMS messages over GPRS

Doing this can make them ree instead of 10c each. 
Newsgroups: alt.cellular.gsm.carriers.voicestream
From: Frater Mus 
Subject: Re: T610 settings for sending SMS over GPRS/WAP ?
References: 
Organization: Team Mousetrap
Reply-To: FraterMus2004@mousetrap.net
Followup-To: 

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 at 13:28 GMT,  wrote:
> I wonder if anybody knows what the T610 settings are (if possible ) for
> sending SMS over GPRS/WAP?

On my older SE phone (r520m) it's under:
Settings | Data Comm | SMS Access | GPRS

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