I'll add my 2c - I bought an o2 Atom PDA/Phone about 6 months ago, and it's a decision I'm quite happy with, despite it being a Windows Mobile device. I honestly have no idea how I lived without it before.
http://www.seeo2.com/product/XdaAtomExec/template/Product.vm The Atom is a very small, slim phone/PDA, which was the biggest reason why I bought it. Previously I've used small phones + larger PDA's via bluetooth (both a Linux Zaurus, and other Palm/Windows PDA's), and I'd often leave the thing home because of the bulk of a normal sized PDA + a phone, so it wasn't utilised effectively, and I saw little to no benefit to owning a PDA. I use my Atom *all* the time. Yes, it's a Windows Mobile device, and oh yes, it's buggy as hell. I reset the phone at least once a week, it does stupid stupid shit, and I do get frustrated with the thing at times, but overall it's actually a pretty sweet device, and it's the least buggy Windows Mobile device I've used (with latest firmware et al), which at least says something. It's a phone, PDA, voice recorder, MP3 player, in-car GPS navigation (*so* bloody useful), basic web browser/ssh client via wifi or gprs, occasional game unit, etc. I hate to say it, but the convenience wins over the frustration - it's made my life a heck of a lot easier since owning it. Talk to me 12 months ago about owning a Windows Mobile device (or even repeating the immediate last sentence I just wrote) and I'd have argued with you the opposite until I was blue in the face :-) I'm really looking forward to Trolltech's phone stuff - if somebody releases a hackable Linux PDA/phone around the size of the Atom, and it ran a pretty sweet PDA application stack (I was never impressed with Linux as a PDA on my Zaurus, but it still makes for one hell of a cool geek toy), I'd buy one in an instant. I'm really hoping that'll happen in 2007. R On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 07:09:06PM +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:01:25PM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: > > > > On Mon, November 6, 2006 1:31 pm, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:30:21PM +1100, david wrote: > > > > > I'm going to be /really/ annoying and ask whether > > > you really need a pda phone :-). > > > > most ppl I know seem to think , yes' > > The one advantage of having the 2 together is you can dial straight from your > contact list. for example open calendar, view appointment, look at > invitees and open contact details and then ring, instead of having to > transfer phone number by hand or having to keep 2 contact db in sync > phone -> pda -> laptop.. > > I have a hp PDA/phone - I think I would rather have 2 seperate gagets, > except for the above scenario > > > > > I thought about it, whether I should get a Treo or Palm handheld > > my considered decision was Palm h/h, NOT phone > > > > > > > I think most people would be better off with a separate > > > phone and a PDA. Having a slim/small phone is good, and being a PDA is > > > incompatible with "slim". > > > > ditto, exactly my opinion > > > > > > > > So what you should look for is a small phone > > > with good connectivity to communicate with the PDA. > > > > that's what I'd do/have done. > > > > but, it seems most ppl feel the need for 'single device' > > not optimal from where I sit > > > > > > > > -- > > Voytek > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
