** Sabi ni Ian noong Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:33:49 +0800 (PHT) > The nice thing about this is that it's Linux and Java based, specifically > MonteVista Linux based, not some arcane Linux fork from motorola. This > means hopefully we can do a lot more with the phone than the Treo or 9210. > My cousin's got a Treo, and i sorta feel it needs more applications > integrating the phone and pda..
I agree. The SMS handling, for one, is primitive. You can't send or receive vcards or business cards, although you can send and receive the latter thru IR. In regard to other text messages, there isn't even an easy way to save the sender's phone number. You (or, more precisely, your cousing) will have to highlight the phone number, copy to clipboard, then paste into the address book. I thought that the most attractive thing about the Treo was its underlying PalmOS, and the hundreds of thousands of Palm developers, some of whom might develop Treo apps. IOW, the *promise* of more advanced applications than those that Handspring bundled. Now there's the Motorola, and the hundreds of thousands of open source developers. And, come to think of it, even if Motorola's design engineers flubbed the user interface (again! -- wouldn't put it beyond them), there should be Java or even native Linux apps that can substitute. I *think* there might be more Java and C/C++ developers than PalmOS developers. Mabuhay. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
