On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 06:08:33PM -0500, Andy Herrman wrote: > Ahh, see, I was originally planning on getting that. However, I > can't upgrade my phone till May, and the plan that takes advantage > of the Treo is about twice as expensive as the plan I currently > have. After about a week of debating with myself I finally decided > to stick with the phone I currently have and just get a normal PDA.
Get a non-vendor Treo from Asia or somewhere - mine's an "unbranded" tri-band so when I return to the US next month I don't have to care about the vampires. And yeah, it's an awesome device, but it has a MAJOR drawback - unless you have an earpiece (stupid dangly wires) you can't look at your PDA while talking on the phone ;) Battery life is great, and Palm's default adapter is US with an adapter for wherever the phone was sold - so eBay or jlist or wherever gets you a vendor-free phone will also work if you're in .us. But Palm is 100% with Linux, at least for "normal" functionality. Using a Treo as a modem, or routing your PDA through your laptop to the Internet via IR, or other weird shit like that might give you some trouble, but I've never heard of anybody ever having any problems with the "obvious" stuff in Linux. J-Pilot is excellent, or Evo if you don't mind the bloat and can live without Palm ToDo category support (search the archive for my earlier rants on the subject; perhaps Novell cares but Ximian didn't). -- % You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. Christopher DeMarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP public key ID 0x2E76CF5C @ pgp.mit.edu +6012 232 2106 -- [email protected] mailing list
