It seems that JVC, in conjunction with PocketScience Inc. thought some of you fulltimers might be interested in this, from http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/981123.htm

(http://www.pocketmail.com) has decided that the convenience of being able to receive and send Email from wherever you can find a phone (even if you can't get to its connector) outweighs the low speed and mating dance of holding phone handset to portable acoustic coupler.

The JVC HC-E100 (http://www.jvc-america.com/pocketmail/pocketmail.html) looks like any self-respecting pocket Email device from the front, but turning it over reveals its true acoustic coupler nature:(you hold the phone handset against the speaker and the pop-up microphone.)

Apparently the developer found that while traveling in less electronically developed countries he had a hard time getting his notebook to plug in, so this $100 device is the result. The associated PocketMail service provides unlimited text Email messages through a toll-free number (within the U.S.) for $9.95/month, and messages can be sent via fax for 25 cents per page domestically, or one dollar internationally.