Speaking of the Bluetooth Palm option, that's a good one. The Tungsten T5 has some quirks, but they were ironed out pretty quickly after launch and it has a nicer screen and much better battery life than the T3. The new Lifedrive also looks really interesting, but the battery life sucks -- a T5 and a 1Gb SD card is not much more than half the price and even if you factor in waiting 18 months and buying a 4Gb SD card (when they come available) it'll work out cheaper.
My one caveat is that phones are going in exactly the opposite direction to where I'd like to see them go, with lots of colour camera nonsense and less(!) functionality -- if you want a data terminal for your PDA, you can do a lot worse than an old Nokia 6310i (still available from Orange, I think). I am sorely tempted to buy a new battery and go back to my three/four year old Ericsson T39m -- until EDGE/G3 really catches on it does everything I want in a phone and also has a proper keypad protector (unlike the SE-T610).
I'm taking a break from Palm with an HP iPaq hx4700. VGA screen, yummy; but the killer app for me is a thing called TextMaker -- a real full-blown word processor, not the crufty rubbish I've been putting up with on palms for too long. There's also a vim port and perl and python; WinCE has come a long way in the past couple of years. Finally, the Linux port is in progress and once they get the frame buffer, WiFi and Bluetooth working I may well migrate over to OpenOffice/Firefox/TBird on a VGA screen small enough to slip in a pocket.
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Date: 2005-05-20 08:18 pm (UTC)My one caveat is that phones are going in exactly the opposite direction to where I'd like to see them go, with lots of colour camera nonsense and less(!) functionality -- if you want a data terminal for your PDA, you can do a lot worse than an old Nokia 6310i (still available from Orange, I think). I am sorely tempted to buy a new battery and go back to my three/four year old Ericsson T39m -- until EDGE/G3 really catches on it does everything I want in a phone and also has a proper keypad protector (unlike the SE-T610).
I'm taking a break from Palm with an HP iPaq hx4700. VGA screen, yummy; but the killer app for me is a thing called TextMaker -- a real full-blown word processor, not the crufty rubbish I've been putting up with on palms for too long. There's also a vim port and perl and python; WinCE has come a long way in the past couple of years. Finally, the Linux port is in progress and once they get the frame buffer, WiFi and Bluetooth working I may well migrate over to OpenOffice/Firefox/TBird on a VGA screen small enough to slip in a pocket.