From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F3zVS-0002lI-F3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:41:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0VHeWT0005077; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:40:32 GMT Received: from mail.magrittesystems.com (adsl-64-173-154-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.173.154.114]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0VHYsg1032752 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:34:55 GMT Received: by mail.magrittesystems.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9D5383C005B; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:47:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.magrittesystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 873D03C003C for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:47:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:47:23 -0800 (PST) From: michael@michaelshiloh.com X-X-Sender: michael@mail.magrittesystems.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What mobile phone / PDA combination unit that syncs with Linux should I get? In-Reply-To: <1b592740601310409h68410df6l@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <1b592740601310409h68410df6l@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-1463808512-2017943037-1138726043=:20371" X-Archives-Salt: 6ada9172-e987-4c7c-9479-a4e4eea7213e X-Archives-Hash: 0d2230fd4ccbbec966df5f809cf05881 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---1463808512-2017943037-1138726043=:20371 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Hey, when you find out, let me know as well. I think our only hope is to make our own. There is (I think) at least one open source cellphone project going on. Michael On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, David Dorward wrote: > The contract on my mobile phone is coming up for renewal soon, so I'm > shortly going to be in the market for a shiny new phone. (NB: I'm in > the UK, so it is devices available in this country that I'm interested > in). > > I'm looking for a few specific things... > > * Can talk to my Gentoo box > * Has a calendar ... that can sync with Evolution > * Has a keyboard or good handwriting recognition > * Lets me write text files and then send them to my Gentoo box > * Not /too/ expensive (Sub-=A3100 after the contract subsidy) > > Any recommendations for devices? > > Things that seem to fit are the Nokia Communicator replacement and > various Pocket PC (eeek, Microsoft!) devices (although I don't know > how well either of them work with Linux - Google kept turning up hits > to review pages that had "linux" somewhere in the sidebar). > > -- > David Dorward > > --=20 > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > ---1463808512-2017943037-1138726043=:20371-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list