Handspring Visor PDAs & Smartphones User Manual


 
Chapter 7 Page 149
Chapter 7
Communicating Using
Your Handheld
The previous chapter described the features of your Visor handheld
computer that help you stay organized. This chapter describes the
features that help you stay connected.
Managing desktop E-Mail: Using your handheld, you can read, reply
to, compose, and delete e-mail from your desktop E-Mail
application while you’re away from your desk.
IR beaming: The infrared port located on the side of your handheld
lets you send data from your handheld — including entire
applications — to any other handheld that is compatible with the
Palm Computing
®
platform that’s close by and has an IR port.
Managing desktop E-Mail
away from your desk
Mail lets you manage the e-mail that you send and receive
through the E-Mail application on your desktop computer. You
can read, reply to, compose, and delete e-mail on your
handheld. To send or receive e-mail, you must perform a
HotSync
®
operation either locally, using the handheld cradle, or
remotely, using a modem.
The key to Mail is that it truly synchronizes the mail in the Inbox of
your desktop E-Mail application with the mail on your handheld. For
example, if you delete e-mail items from Mail, your next HotSync
operation also deletes the e-mail items from your desktop E-Mail
application, so you never have to delete e-mail items twice. Similarly,
if you read an e-mail item on your handheld and leave it in your
Inbox, your next HotSync operation marks it as read in your desktop
E-Mail application.