On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 12:42:45PM -0500, Paul Beltrani wrote: > 1) Supports SMS for alerts from my monitoring systems > 2) Supports basic email (POP would be fine for retrieving email) > 3) Has basic web browsing capability > 4) Supports an SSH client > 5) Has a useful user interface. (Subjective, but ANYTHING has to be > better than RIM.) > 6) Supports Scheduling (see catch below) > > Numbers 5 and 6 are the tough ones here. > > For example, every portable device more complex than a basic phone has > a QWERTY keyboard. (I really miss graffiti and would love to LART > the marketing moron that thought a mini, multi letter per key, QWERTY > keyboard was a good idea.) > > Scheduling is complicated by the fact that my current environment uses > Outlook for communal scheduling. A mechanism to automatically > synchronize an Outlook calendar with a Google Calendar would be ideal.
The Treo 755p fits the bill. It does it all, including syncing via Exchange ActiveSync. If you want a bigger keyboard, there are bluetooth keyboards. Lastly, the 755p makes a great bluetooth modem, so for more serious work just link it to your laptop and get online... -j _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
