Sprint vs T-mobile for TREO

[velvagolden]

Hello - I am new to the forum, live in Seattle
As a neophyte I need help deciding between sprint and t-mobile for a handspring TREO phone pda. Now that Tmobile has the GPRS up and running, does this make a difference? I have a mac at home with ATT cable internet, and would like to view email remotely - anyone with experience with either service here? quality of reception, ease of email and internet access all equally important to me.
Any help appreciated, including whatever I have neglected
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[cswartz]

I have the same question for Los Angeles - adding Cingular. Here's the situation: I have a coupon for a free Treo 180 (with Cingular or T-Mobile), a Treo 270 GSM/GPRS for $250 (with Cingular or T-Mobile -- but Cingular is not GPRS, is it?), or a Treo 300 PCS for $250 with Sprint. I really want to throw away my Palm III and have Palm info in a phone, and throw away my Blackberry and have email to mu phone. Current service for my Nokia 8260 is AT&T TDMA, which has gotten progressively worse in LA (but I'm told that's because they are not improving infrastructure since their GPRS is up). I formerly used Sprint 6 years ago, when they had not built out LA, and PacBell, Cingular's predecessor, which was OK.

Help - any experience with these services?

Charles
cswartz5@yahoo.com

[IdiOTeQnoLogY]

as far as the Treo goes it is a great piece of equipment. it does feature a Blazer browser that can view regular HTML web pages. i have heard good things about TM & SPCS in Seattle coverage wise so you are probably good with both of them. however with the sprint treo300 you should have slightly faster download speeds as well plus the Treo300 should be upgradable to the next revision of sprints cdma2000 upgrade which would give you speeds of around 300kbs; i dont know if the TM treo will work with EDGE if that ever comes about.

as far as LA spcs coverage is good and TM is running off of cingulars network without it seems the capacity problems since they installed their own switches so make your choice on that comparison.