Woo hoo! As I left for work this morning I looked at my indispensable Palm Treo 755p and saw a site that is usually reserved only for vacations to larger cities than mine…or Craig, Colorado. I saw TRIANGLES!!

Triangles in the world of the Sprint Palm Treo indicate that I am in a high speed zone for my Sprint data plan. Since many cell phones have the capability of accessing email and Internet content, carriers have expanded their networks, slowly, to allow for higher and higher speeds.

Sprint offers two levels of data speed in their network. For years, I have toiled (tongue firmly mounted in cheek) under the capacity of checking weather, directions, movie times, email and more with my Treo at maybe fast dial-up or ISDN speeds…indicated by the little arrows above my signal indicator.

 

When Sprint rolled out their high speed network a few years ago, my hamlet was not included. My phone has been capable of the new speeds for more than a year, but unless I traveled to a metro area or the smaller town of Craig, Colorado (which I drove through once about six years ago) I could not access the higher speeds which approach a strong DSL connection like speed.

To make a long story short, my day was smoother, the sun was shinier, and the wind was windier today with my Treo 755p by my side happily sucking in Internet data at speeds probably 5X faster than yesterday. Triangles…my new favorite shape.

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