This from the jpilot mail list's thread on what to do when there're no more PDA/phones running PalmOS.
Too pricy for me, and my Treo 700p is doing just fine (and I bought a spare for $27) so I'm not in the market for a new phone. Perhaps this will be of interest to several of you. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- My daughter just bought one from Amazon - $520 -(she is such a geek! I'm so proud - really) looked at it yesterday. [I told her it was nice and I wished I could afford one too! (She works for minimum wage!!! (Hope she figures it out soon))] .. Anyway - needed to open up the wifi to allow the mac-address - it was nice to see it has an xterm and I could just ifconfig and could browse /proc etc .. tab complete the whole deal. It is just the same size as a Treo680 - I wish it was a little bigger with a bit more screen - but the screen has twice the res as an I-phone and is really nice. You could get this phone without a data-plan and be quite happy - as long as there is wifi about. I suppose with a skype account you could skip the phone service as well... I've not messed with skype - wonder if it would work well enough? If skype can take messages? I wonder if the cost of a skype plan vs a cell phone plan would pay for the phone over a year? The big deal with the Iphone is the two finger pinch - which is nice- I like it, but not at the expense of poor accuracy. The N900 comes with a stylus! (hope someone comes out with a built in ball-point pen like I have for my Treo) - so you can really navigate menus and work with more data on the screen. To zoom, you can draw a clockwise circle - counterclockwise to back-out. The keyboard is small and nice - a VAST improvement on I-kludge-screen-keyboards (I've got big fingers - totally frustrating trying to enter data on these). (I still miss graffiti). Simple plug in of the USB cable to my Debian box and the internal memory of the phone mounts just fine. Moved some pictures over for her. (It has a very nice 5Mpix auto focus camera with LED flash, gravity sensor) She went on line and updated - apt-get runs in the background. This is not a jail-house-lockup-to-the-point-you-feel-it-belongs-to-your-provider - it is a real Linux box and it belongs to the owner! Most of your favorite configs should just copy over. There are bugs here and there - and people that are fixing them ... http://blog.rburchell.com/2010/04/qt-on-maemo-warning.html .. Just like Linux - except with some fancy desktop work. Nokia is dropping the Maemo - joining with Intel - the new one called MeeGo. It is being developed on the N900. The little I know about the MeeGo is it sadly will use RPMs - They are promising it will be totally open - I think Moblin + Maemo = Meego. http://meego.com/community/blogs/imad/2010/day-1-here-opening-meego-development People also run pure Debian on the N900 - so a quatro boot phone - Maemo, Debian, Meego, Android are out there. I REALLY want one... have to finish a design and really hope business comes back a bit before I get one. IMHO this is the phone for Linux folks - the price will drop with time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Schmidt EMail [email protected] Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com 3209 West 9th Street Ph (785) 841-3089 Lawrence, KS 66049 FAX (785) 841-0434 Post-modernism is a philosophy whose true message says "Science is so hard, lets not even try to do it anymore.". And they don't. -kps _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
