Hi,

I should first explain that I've been using "traditional" PCS phones
for awhile -- no wireless web, vision, or anything like that. My
phones have been able to receive text messages (and numeric pages from
the voicemail system), but that's about it as far as non-voice
capabilities go.

In getting my new phone, I have come to realize a rather confusing
array of different things, including apparently several different ways
to get text messages to a Sprint phone.

Here are my questions:

1. messaging.sprintpcs.com still allows one to compose a "one-way
message", which I assume is the text messaging I've been familiar
to. Has Sprint at one time or another called this "wireless web
messaging" as well, or is that something different? And how can
there be anything but a "one-way" message?

2. With vision, there appears to be some other way to receive e-mail
on the phone. What is the utility of this, given that it's already
possible to e-mail the phone @messaging.sprintpcs.com?

3. What exactly is "PCS Short Mail"? Is it the traditional messaging,
or the Vision e-mail messaging, or something in-between?

4. Will my Vision phone be able to send a traditional text message to
my wife's non-Vision phone (even though she couldn't respond
directly from her phone)?

5. Can a PCS Vision phone use Wireless Web technology? (Perhaps the
cheaper monthly cost of that appeals to me, despite the lower
feature set.)

I've tried asking all these questions of Sprint reps at one time or
another, but they seem to lack the expertise to explain them very
well to someone a little out of date like me...

Thanks,
John


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