[mdlug] It happened...

[Peter Bart]

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 13:49 -0800, Michael S. Mikowski wrote:
> Having used a Treo 650 for 2 years, I can say this:  It was a pretty 
> good browser, a great PDA, and a mediocre phone.  This phone was 
> stolen, and I've replaced it with a Razr (work supplied).  Which is a 
> very nice phone, bad PDA, and lousy browser (if you want to call it 
> that).
> 
> The bottom line is smart phones are either great as a phone or great as 
> a Web Client.  I have yet to see both (although the iPhone could be the 
> exception, although its lack of flash support /severely/ limits its use 
> in many cases).
> 
> Maybe you want a nice, slim-line phone that is a great phone, and a 
> separate internet/GPS gadget like this: http://www.nokiausa.com/n810
> 
> As a GPS device along, it seems worth it.  And being Linux based, it is 
> nice and hackable, I expect :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mike
> 
> ps. hold me back, I am /this/ close to an impulse buy...

Mike,
	I've had two Nokia N800 for about a year now and before that two N770.
I still have all of them, except for the one I gifted to a former step
son; and they all still work. As for hackable, take a look at
<http://maemo.org/>. This does way more than my old Palm ever could and
I get comments about the screen all the time, 640x480. Matter of fact
there is now a Garnet VM that runs on it and runs all the Palm stuff you
may want to!

Go ahead, it was meant for you ;)

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Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
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