Help me buy my next PDA
Dec. 15th, 2005 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomSidekick?
Treo?
Treo-after-they-switch-to-MS? (Is it true that they are going to do this?)
Blackberry?
Other options?
I want to carry one box with me instead of my current laptop+cellphone+PAA. (PAA is my Personal Analog Assistant).
Most important: I want to be able to read email anywhere. I’d prefer to just let it access my IMAP server (which is open to the internet anyway). Either way, when I delete a message on this device, I want it deleted on my real mail box too. If I can do this, I can eliminate my need to constantly be carrying my laptop around. I’d like to be able to reply also, of course.
Very important: I want the PDA aspect to support really good todo-list management software. PalmOS can be augmented with DateBookV or Life Balance; The MS PDA software has FranklinCovey software available to augment it (though I hate Covey’s politics... he’s an christian coalition crusader).
Very important: I want VerizonWireless service. They have the best coverage around here.
Not important: BlueTooth. It’s nice, but I can connect a cable when I need to sync it.
Sort of important: An SSH client would be nice.
I know a lot of my friends have Sidekicks and Treos but I haven’t used either enough. If anyone is local and would let me use theirs for an hour or so it would be appreciated. (LOCAL=New Jersey)
Treo?
Treo-after-they-switch-to-MS? (Is it true that they are going to do this?)
Blackberry?
Other options?
I want to carry one box with me instead of my current laptop+cellphone+PAA. (PAA is my Personal Analog Assistant).
Most important: I want to be able to read email anywhere. I’d prefer to just let it access my IMAP server (which is open to the internet anyway). Either way, when I delete a message on this device, I want it deleted on my real mail box too. If I can do this, I can eliminate my need to constantly be carrying my laptop around. I’d like to be able to reply also, of course.
Very important: I want the PDA aspect to support really good todo-list management software. PalmOS can be augmented with DateBookV or Life Balance; The MS PDA software has FranklinCovey software available to augment it (though I hate Covey’s politics... he’s an christian coalition crusader).
Very important: I want VerizonWireless service. They have the best coverage around here.
Not important: BlueTooth. It’s nice, but I can connect a cable when I need to sync it.
Sort of important: An SSH client would be nice.
I know a lot of my friends have Sidekicks and Treos but I haven’t used either enough. If anyone is local and would let me use theirs for an hour or so it would be appreciated. (LOCAL=New Jersey)
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Date: 2005-12-16 04:48 am (UTC)The Treo is the more sophisticated of the two - it is javascript-enabled and so the web stuff is better on it. But it is more expensive.
There is an SSH client that I was able to download onto my Sidekick, so that I can read my panix and numenor mail. And I can use LJ with it, and it really kept me in touch with the world well when I was in the hospital. I like my Sidekick II.
You might ask folks who have 'em if you can play with their phones... that's the best way to know.