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Brand: CIDCO Color: Black Compatibility: PC Parallel EAN: 0734606102287 Item Dimensions: Label: CIDCO Manufacturer: CIDCO Model: DET1-01 Modem Description: Fax / modem MPN: DET1-01 Publisher: CIDCO Size: Black Studio: CIDCO Variation Description: Black Warranty: 1 year warranty Features:
Accessories: Editorial Review: Product Description: Cidco has recognized immediate success by offering devices that make e-mail and other information services readily available to the mass consumer market. Cidco has become the worldwide leader in personal e-mail solutions and is continuing to gain stature and customers with its rapidly growing Mivo line of e-mail appliances and services.Cidco creates affordable, easy-to-use e-mail solutions. Over 100,000 Cidco customers have discovered the simple, lightweight, portable personal e-mail system that sends and receives messages without the hassles of a PC. Just plug it into a phone jack, turn it on, and, with the push of a button, you're exchanging e-mails. Amazon.com Product Description: If you use a computer just for e-mail or if you want to try using e-mail for the first time, the Cidco MailStation may be the product for you. The size and shape of a small keyboard (10.25 by 7.125 by 1.625 inches), the MailStation works without the need of a PC or extra phone line. Just plug it in, turn it on, and begin typing e-mail. View your message on the 6-by-2.5-inch LCD screen. The MailStation sends and receives data through a standard telephone line but does not monopolize the line--it dials in at set times that you can program and automatically hangs up when you want to use the phone. It also disconnects upon the retrieval of e-mail or when the sending of e-mail is completed. The average length of time to send or receive e-mail is approximately 30 seconds, keeping telephone charges low. The MailStation is designed to work with its own e-mail service (MyMailstation.com). Service costs $9.95 per month, and local dial-up phone numbers are available throughout the United States. While you cannot access e-mail from another Internet service provider (ISP), you can forward e-mail from other ISPs to your MyMailStation account. You can store up to 400 typical e-mail messages in the MailStation's memory, which holds up to the equivalent of 100 pages of text. E-mail messages are limited to 8 KB, which is approximately 66 lines per message. Keep in mind that if you reply to an e-mail, the original message, including the headers and routing information, is considered part of the 66 lines of allowable space. The MailStation does not allow you to read attachments or view photos attached to e-mail, but you can view photos and attachments from your PC via a Web mail account at no additional cost. You can also use the MailStation as a calculator or calendar and clean up text with the 20,000-word spellchecker. There is also room for about 1,000 contacts in the address book. The MailStation also automatically downloads selected content from Cidco. You can hook the MailStation up to a parallel-port compatible printer (such as the HP 648C or HP Apollo P2250) to print your e-mail or Web content. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - CUSTOMER SERVICE FROM HELLWhen working my grandma loved it. When it went down I quickly discovered that the ISP for mailstaition was horrible. I was hung up on 4 times, the number to call them went into an endless hold loop before hanging up on you. No one at Earthlink could help and would only offer to transfer me to the mailstation number where they were hanging up on me. When I demanded a supervisor number they gave me the number for the us post office with a fake extension. I could not even get through to cancel ... Read More Rating:  - You need to know what you are doingWhile these can be a very useful device you need to be careful about where you buy and what you buy. Many of the older MIVO 100 can be set up to use any dial up ISP but later ones are locked to Earthlink and it seems they are discontinuing their service. I bought two on eBay for $10 ea plus S&H - these are the models with the Yahoo function (now abandoned) and I can configure them to my local ISP. If you need support there is a Yahoo group which supports them (search for 'mailstation') where tips ... Read More Rating: - Activation impossible!I am really not sure if the appliance works or nor, since Earthlink says they are unable to activate any accounts at the present time, and have been unable to do so now for 2 weeks, today they told me to call back in another 5 days! Every time I call I get another story - so if I am ever able to actually use the device I will try to let you know. Rating: - A good reason to use the snail mail.My experience with Mailstation started over six months ago. Since then I have had less than two weeks of email service. Just a few of the problems have included a Mailstation arriving with a broken screen, six weeks of phone calls to finally prove the replacement did not, would not and never would work, a month waite for another replacement to find it was in shipping, two weeks later to find no record of replacement, etc, etc. One technique is never being allowed to talk to the same person twice. ... Read More Rating: - Used to be wonderful until Earthlink took over.MailStation was wonderful for the first 1.5 years of service under CIDCO. Bought it for my computer-illiterate 77 year old mother so she could keep in touch with family members now scattered around the world. She is totally averse to computers (it took a few years to even get comfortable tapping numbers into a microwave oven), but she took to the MailStation right off. I was very impressed. Then, ~8 months ago, CIDCO was bought by Earthlink. It has been astounding how that company has managed ... Read More |
