I have some experience with this, and while my planner skills aren't up to par yet, I've been usiing electronics for PIM since the HP 200LX (fantastic machine for the era. ran true dos with true cga graphics and would run any software a comparable pc could run)
Right now i'm- honestly- torn between Palm and the Nokia N800. I use both because- i've used palm and written software off and on for the platform for 8 years or so. I've used *nix since 1992. Palm has very solid, reliable, sane UI integrated applications. The OS itself is limited to an extent that is painful, and the palm OS is dead in the waters of 2003. The Nokia *could* be great. The debian support is not adequate, and the stock UI leaves a LOT to be desired. For example, you can't even select 24 hour time without selecting a region such as germany. Which leads to (for me) the unfortunate result of applications using german language settings. Though this is one small example, there are numerous others. It's a painfully immature UI with almost no ability to customize or tweak. UPSIDES: It's linux. There is in fact an emacs 21 package that runs in the nokia n800/810. Downside to this is that the emacs community as a whole has proven very resistant to adding UI elements to accomodate touchscreens or limited keyboard input. Nonetheless, you can just run planner and gnus on your PDA!!!! Emacs, with bbdb, wiki mode, planner, and gnus has the potential to be the PDA killer PIM app. Right now you either have to suffer with really slow input methods due to device and os constraints, or use something like an EEE pc as a pda. Perhaps in the futre, a really good mouse/touchscreen friendly system will be allowable. -Christof Harper knifemaker burnout case handheld nut _______________________________________________ Planner-el-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/planner-el-discuss
