Hi Raj ,
I use an Ericsson R380s , have been for a couple of months now . I think
its great , i used to carry a Palm and a phone and now i just carry one
device. It is bigger than a lot of phones available nowadays , but it is
surprisingly light .
Compared to others , its the screen that is great . The size and the
horizontal layout give you a lot of space .
The Epoch OS is currently locked so you can mess with it , in the next
software release they plan to release it so you can make modifications. The
synchronization is good with Lotus Organizer , never tried any other PIM ,
the email synch works only with Outlook , so i dont think i will ever use
that aspect . Although in Win2k it does not synch every time , some issue
with the OS , in 9x its great.
The WAP aspect is good , i use Airtel tango , but i think it is mainly of a
novelty value . At 19.2 kpbs it really does not help much. What is really
usable is the POP email client that can dial multiple ISP and pick/send
email from/to multiple POP accounts.
You probably made a typo in your email , thats GPRS . I use it in USA for
net connections , i think the phones with that high speed connectivity are
still far away . Although some parts of USA are using a new system called
Ricochet , thats 128k .
I did see the new nokia , the colour screen is awesome but the size is much
bigger although it has a keyboard . The Ericsson has handwriting recog or a
screen based keyboard . Pretty ok if you wanna do email and sms but writing
a novel might be a bit tedious.
Stay away from the Motorola , i used it for a couple of days . Major
problems , firstly the games are in Chinese no matter where you buy it from
. It does not have a keypad , so you tap your finger on the screen leaving
major fingerprints . And whipping out the stylus every time you wanna call
is not very nice. The menu system is a mess and you will take forever to
find a menu option .
hope this helps ,
- Ankur.
At 01:08 PM 3/19/2001, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Was planning to pick up a PDA+Cell phone in the near future (those of
>you who know me also know how I hate carrying gadgets around, and
>seperate PDA and Cell would be too much). Of course, I could wait a
>couple of months and get a GRPS device, or another couple for
>BlueTooth, or till the end of the year for the Motorola+Palm device or
>another couple for 100Gbps connectivity, but I figured that that way
>I'd be in my grave before I made a decision.
>
>So the current choice seems to basically narrowed down to:
>
>Nokia Communicator 9210 (currently top of my wishlist)
>Ericsson R380 (or [A-Z]380)
>Motorola Accompli A6188
>
>Anyone have any good/bad experiences with any of these? Cost,
>features, usability, compatibility, service, etc. would be helpful.
>
>Also in the market for 2 used Palm's, if anyone's got 'em for sale.
>
>Regards,
>
>-- Raju
>--
>Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
>
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