Vec wrote:
Is the CELL phone able to be used as a modem? Got the cable for it? What OS
are you running under?

Regards,

James

Vec -- I know this doesn't answer your question but have you considered
using Acrobat 6 or 7. With acrobat 6, I get documents for commenting, I
write the comments on the original, stamp it with my electronic signature
and send it back via the internet. I too tried using faxes a few years ago
and found it too clumsy and the received and sent products were of such low
resolution. Just a thought.
rtm
"Vec" <vec2u@valoudari.edu.mx> wrote in message
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Hello group

I need to send and receive faxes while I am on the road, I have a laptop
thinkpad A31 and a mobile phone. I need to be able to print out and
singe some and refax back, what is the options, some hints or direction
to go.

Many thanks

Vec wrote:
and send the faxes, second connecting to the outside world, and third
handling the documents on your laptop.

If you can wait to be in a hotel room, the connection part is simple. If
you want to be able to connect via your phone, you probably must use a
GPRS service to connect to the Internet (sending a fax directly to the
recipient fax number is probably not an option, AT&T aka Cingular do not
provide a compatible service, for instance). Connecting via GPRS is
fairly straightforward, provided you have a compatible phone, the
adequate service and a way to connect the phone to your laptop. Here
Bluetooth would be my preferred option, but Infrared works too and if
you have serial port on your laptop, a special cable can sometimes can
be used.

Then the fax part. I suggest using a service like Fax1.com. You will be
assigned a fax number and you will receive your faxes via your email.
Sending faxes can be done in various ways using this service, check it
out, it works, is inexpensive and you pay as you go.

Lastly, the handling of your faxes. Personally, I use Paperport to store
them and scan them inasmuch there is text I want to retrieve. Then I use
WordPerfect or Word. I insert my signature via a macro (I scanned my
signature from a document and saved it on my hd.) and I send the fax
back. Another option is just putting annotation and signature on a
received fax from within Paperport. Maybe, some other programs can do
this too, possibly in a more efficient manner than mine.

All this may sound fairly complicated, and probably is. Using a hardware
fax is definitely easier but once you know how to do it, it is simpler
than its sounds.

It took me some time but now, I almost never have to use a hotel's fax.
I carry my own portable scanner (visioneer Strobe XP100) along with my
laptop in the same carrying case so that I can scan the snail mail I
receive while I travel or important document.

Hope this gave you a starting point.
--
John Doue

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Hi Vec,

I use eFax.com for sending and receiving faxes. They come in as
..TIFF and I have a .TIFF file of my signature. I just paste it on
the signature area save and send back.

Now days though, I have a Averatec C3500 Convertible. I just read
the page into Microsoft Journal and sign it the print it as a PDF
and send it off.

I travel a lot, so eFax.com is a life saver. My fax number is a
local phone number. eFax turns the fax into tiffs and it pops up in
my e-mail box. When I want to send a fax I just send the fax as an
attachment to an e-mail to faxnumber@efaxsend.com and away it goes.
Incoming faxs are free and outgoing faxes are 0.10 per page anywhere
in the continental US. There is a monthly fee for the service. I
think I am paying 12.95 a month (you'll want to check that), and it
is well worth it.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

That which a man buys too cheaply . . .
He esteems too lightly


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Hi John,

Vec might want to consider a PcCard GSM/GPRS modem. I have one
account with T-Mobile that is both Data and Voice. For $50 a month I
get unlimited Internet and 500 minutes of voice. When I need to use
the Internet, I just pop the SIM car out of the phone and into my
Sony Ericsson modem card and do my Internet thing then when I need
to make a call, just put the SIM back in the phone. I prefer
Internet to phone so the SIM tend s to stay in the modem card.

As a backup, I have a Bluetooth dongle that I can plug into a USB
port and connect to the phone that way.

I( use the cellular modem 99% of the time. The Bluetooth is only for
when the modem card does not pick up the signal. If you spend the
extra $150, you can get the Sierra AirCard 750n with external
antennae that picks up a signal anywhere your cell phone does.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

That which a man buys too cheaply . . .
He esteems too lightly


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"C.Joseph Drayton" wrote:
Another product to look at is MaxEmail (http://www.maxemail.com/).

I've been using it for a number of years, without a hitch.

Notan

C.Joseph Drayton wrote:

device. The aspect of this I like least is moving the SIM card since
this is something you want to do only under the best conditions, the
potentiel for loosing it is not negligeable.

Regards

--
John Doue

Some US Cell phones can connect directly to a laptop. My Qualcom
QCP-860 could do that with an optional connectivity kit (this is an old
and obsolete digital cell phone (mine was on Verizon), you can find them
on E-Bay for $5, but the connectivity kit is harder to find). It
connects to a serial port, and the laptop thinks it's an analog 14,400
baud modem. It does work, and for fax, 14,400 is as fast as you can go
anyway.


John Doue wrote:

I don't know whether this will help, but I use Maxemail as my fax service.
It costs a small amount but is well worth it to me. I think the address is:

www.maxemail.com


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