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Re: [LUG] OT: Mobile phone recommendations

 

Something with Android? The Palm Pre? The Nokia N900 when it's here?
They're all cool and have Linux inside.

2009/11/29 Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Gordon Henderson wrote:
>>
>> I've never ever 'synced' a phone with anything. ... What am I missing?
>
> Well as I said I mostly want easy backup and restore.
>
> I use to download contacts to my Nokia Communicator from my Intranet
> based address book - but then I had a lot of contacts with a lot of
> details to track, and needed them the same at the home Office.
>
>> My phone *is* my calendar & diary - I don't seem to have a use for a
>> desktop equivalent. Importing a list of email contacts might be nice,
>> but actually I rarely use the phone like that, preferring to use putty
>> to a server and run pine...
>>
>> Maybe it's just me though...
>
> Nah I worked that way with the Nokia as far as Calendar was concerned.
>
>> My next phone will be a Nokia N900. I'd have one on order now if I'd not
>> bought something else last month (dive computer)... They're £500
>> sim-free though which I suspect doesn't tick any boxes for you.
>
> Maemo and Android intrigue me, largely why I asked here.
>
> Of the Android one the HTC Hero already seems to have generated its own
> set of fans. Although the ratings aren't all stellar.
>
> I'm almost sold on the T-Mobile Pulse. I could very much live with
> Google Calendar, as I use it for the odd personal reminder already. But
> I feel it hard to get a feel for these phones, as the review said the
> IMAP mail client was okay. I'd need to play......
>
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