smartphone?

[Matt Price]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:05:11AM -0500, John Van Ostrand wrote:
> On Friday, 2006-02-17 02:18:01 GMT, 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
> 
> 
> We have been developing a Blackberry tool that runs in Linux. We have a 
> developer devoting two days a week to the project and we are getting quite
> a few web sites hits on it.
> 
> Check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/barry/ and 
> http://www.netdirect.ca/software/packages/barry/index.php
> 
> Currently it is a library and command line tool that is successfully backing
> up and restoring several of the blackberry databases. It works on three of the
> recent blackberry models that we have and we expect that it would work on
> all of the current models.

thanks everyone for your replies.  John's Blackberry project sounds
especially interesting -- quite cool, really.  Soundsl ike you're
somewhere around milestone 2 from the roadmap?  I should probably
refrain from that option though - -I am trying to make sure my pda
isn't an excuse to wastetime hacking around, but instead Just Works.
So then it soundsl ike Palm is likely the wayto go, though I see the
treo 650 gets very mixed reviews.  There are rumors of a 700p set to
arrive soon -- that might be a better option.  Or perhaps one of these
nokia phones (though they don'th ave graffitti!).  

The feeling I'm getting is that there is perhaps no perfect solution
yet.  ah well.  

thanks again!

matt
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