One of the marvels of modern technology is the ability to view faxes on your phone. Having a Palm Pre makes that very convenient, if you are on a football field or at a restaurant!

If the emergency department calls and says, "Hey, can you take a look at this EKG for us?" You can say, "Sure, fax it to me." You give them your fax number (provided through www.MyFax.com) and they fax it to your number, and it promptly pushed through my gmail account to my Palm Pre as an image or pdf file. I can quickly view it on my phone and tell them what to do with the patient (or what not to do)!

That is pretty amazing!

To the right is an example of an EKG that was faxed to my phone. It may look blurry and unclear to all of you, but there is enough information for me to give them a useful answer. If you right click and save the image, you will get the full sized image. On my Palm Pre, I can zoom in to view various parts of the EKG and that is awesome!

Thank you Palm, Google, and MyFax for providing us with the latest and greatest technology! This certainly makes life easier for all of us, and keeps patients safer!

I have moved from the Palm Treo 755p to the Palm Pre. I was one of those nuts that got the Palm Pre the day it came out. I spent countless hours researching the Pre and decided that it was the future of smartphones.

Palm Treo

I have had a Palm Treo ever since the 650. Even before that, I had a Palm III back in 1993 when it was made by US Robotics (before Palm). The Treo 650 was an awesome phone. It did a lot of things well. It surfed the net, checked email, and most importantly, allowed me to use my large library of medical software. I love the calendar, the memos, the tasks, the browser, the email. But most of all, I use my medical software the most. I have to have that. I had the Treo 650 on Verizon, and since data costs an extra $40, I never bothered to activate it. I was happy using my phone as a palm pilot, text machine, and ocassionally to make voice calls.

Then came the Sprint Sero plan. For $30 a month, you could get a Palm Treo 755p, 500 minutes of voice (of which I use may 20 minutes), and unlimited everything else. This is when I started using the browser, email, google maps, and other features. And, it still allowed me to use my medical software. I switched to Sprint immediately!

The Treo 755p is a great device. It does a lot of things well. MP3s, videos, email, etc. It is very well integrated and I appreciated the short cuts and speed that it operated with. No complaints. The thing that it was lacking was the browser wasn't a full browser and it did not have WIFI. But that's it. I didn't realize I needed anything else and since I never went online with it, I never cared.

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