Sevak
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 22:58, rec wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >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). > > > > "MAJOR drawback - unless you have an earpiece (stupid dangly wires) you" can't look at your PDA while talking on the phone" Wait a second - I put it on speakerphone and then access all the PDA functionality while still talking. The speakerphone is good, but it would be great if it had an acoustic echo canceller - which I don't think it has. -- [email protected] mailing list
