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A few unfortunate souls do all their business by email, but work for companies too small or too cheap or too - whatever - to buy them a proper Blackberry. However, that shouldn't stop them from being able to go laptop-free when they need a break from luggin one around. These people need a powerful phone with powerful PIM applications and a powerful email application. These phones are much smaller and less expensive than the Blackberries or Pocket PC Phones that many companies provide for their employees, but they still provide powerful tools for email warriors.

Cingular: PalmOne Treo 600

Sprint: PalmOne Treo 600
(Even though the Treo 650 is available in limited quantities on Sprint, we still recommend the 600 since it falls in our price range. The 650 is brand new, and thus quite expensive.)

T-Mobile: RIM Blackberry 7100t

Verizon: PalmOne Treo 600

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