6500 & 6700 Push E-Mail question for hearing impaired

[Rim R Hall]

I am new to your sight but it looks like there is a lot of talent here that might be able to answer my question.

I am hearing impaired so the idea of having e-mail get instantly to my handheld is very appealing. My question is, is their a way to get immediate e-mail sent to one of these devices without having an elaborate corporate server setup? Is their a way to get POP3 accounts to "push" e-mail to the Blackberry in the "always on" mode like my wife gets from her corporate server? This would allow us to send e-mails back and forth in real time. The great appeal of this device for the hearing impaired is the ability to get instant e-mail, the use of AIM and the speaker that will allow me to attach my voice carry over device.

Thanks for your help. R Hall

[handheldcontact]

The 5810 and 6710 models allow access to pop3 email through the use of the new BlackBerry Web Client. You can use this service WITHOUT the BlackBerry Entereprise Server. I believe all the carrieres (T-Mobile, AT&T and Rogers) now offer the web client and I assume Nextel will soon as well.

Here is the text from Tmobile about it:
BlackBerry Web Client is an internet-based email interface that can retrieve email from up to 10 email accounts. The web client will redirect email wirelessly to your BlackBerry handheld so you can send, receive, forward and reply to messages while on the go. You can manage your email, including creating address book entries and filing messages, from any Internet-enabled PC with BlackBerry Web Client's easy-to-use interface, providing a familiar web based email experience. Each BlackBerry handheld also comes with an email address that acts as the default email address for the BlackBerry Web Client.

[JimBobJoeRay]

If you have a corporate email address on an Exchange server or Domino server you could contact your ISP and see if they would forward that ISP email to your corporate address, if not you could also try setting your mail client to "POP" for the email every minute, this would force the redirection to happen with in 60 seconds on the desktop redirector. These suggestions are of course dependent on how you currently have your device setup with your email.

[Mark D. Rejhon]

Hi,

There's another great application: Blackberry as pocket TTY. It's possible!

I am deaf too. If you have a telnet program and run a TTY on the other end of the telnet program, I can make TDD/TTY phone calls on a Blackberry! Even make realtime 711 relay phone calls too!

More information:
http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5016

Has anybody heard of any telnet software for Blackberry 65XX / 67XX series yet? I imagine that it shouldn't be hard for someone to develop such a client for a GPRS type system...

[Mark D. Rejhon]

Just a friendly warning. Voice carry over devices unfortunately DO NOT work very well on most digital cellphones. There's a problem with TDD/TTY transmissions over most digital cellphones and you still need an analog cellphone which the Blackberry is not.

The problem is that the digital transmissions compress the sound and that ruins the TDD tones.

However, some new digital cellphones are now TDD compatible if you program them to be. (Ie, has a "TDD Mode" or "TTY Mode" built into them). I am not sure if the 65XX or 67XX has a TDD Mode. Do they? If so, then your voice carryover device may work.

Best to do a trial.

Me, I prefer TTY in both directions, so my solution is to use telnet that connects to a remote computer-based TTY (essentially Linux with a TDD modem attached)