On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:28:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/23/07 19:15, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:37:20PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> I need to buy a cell phone/pda, and I am looking at the T-Mobile Dash ( > >> http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/pda/dash/index.htm). However, I use Debian, > >> KDE/Gnome and Kontact, so the Windows Mobile OS is not very appealing. > > [...] > > > > I'm really happy with the Sidekick 3, myself. Since it keeps its data on a > > server and just caches it on the phone, I don't worry about > > synchronization. There is a web interface to that data which is pretty > > nice, and if you really want to synchronize it shouldn't take too much > > effort to screen scrape the web interface. The phone and remote data > > continuously synchronize, so any change you make on either interface will > > be reflected on the other shortly thereafter. (This also means that > > losing/breaking a phone doesn't lose any data at all.) > > Just a thought: > > Server side storage is No Big Deal if you have a GMail account, but > some of us would rather keep our own data to ourselves.
It depends on the data. I'm not particularly concerned about the data I have on my phone, in good part because I don't put data I want to keep private on it. Given that there is an ssh client that works nicely, if I want to keep something private I connect to my machine at home. > Ron Johnson, Jr. --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
