smartphone?

[Dave Cramer]

I tried a treo 650, wasn't impressed. The buttons are too close  
together. The blackberry has much nicer keyboard layout.

It crashed within the first day, so I returned it.

On the other hand people who get used to them love them.

My criteria was that it had to play nice with OS X, and it appears  
that not much does.

Telus has one that is different, check it out, I didn't find it til  
after I decided to get a RAZR.

Dave
On 17-Feb-06, at 8:28 AM, Vince Fry wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 21:18 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Anyone out there use a smartphone? I am looking for a blackberry or
>> treo or something -- something that combines palm-like functions with
>> a cell phone.  I love my old palm Vx (battry dying though) so a  
>> PalmOS
>> device would be nice (graffitti even better!).  But obviously the  
>> main
>> criterion is that it has to Play Nice With Linux!  I mostly use  
>> Debian
>> or Ubuntu, with xfce or Gnome -- so something that syncs to
>> Evolution would be great (I suppose I can consider moving over to KDE
>> if there is some great advantage).
>>
>> SO what are the options?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt
>>
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> I've had several Blackberries, none of which have worked with Linux. I
> tested a Treo 600 a while back, and had no issues with it. Of course,
> stay away from the new 700W!!
>
> I now have a Nokia 6620, and with some third party software, email,
> contact and calendar syncing work well with Evolution. I can also
> transfer files back and forth using bluetooth, and can mount the file
> system on the phone using NFS.
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