John Valenti wrote:
This is totally in the other direction of having a full keyboard, but you might look at the Nokia 770 and 800. The 770's are on discount now, for about $150. Someone showed me theirs last week. It is more geared toward Wi-Fi connections, but would connect to the net thru bluetooth to your cellphone.
I just bought one to tinker with a couple weeks ago, actually. I've already done the loopback ssh thing to get root, and enabled red-pill mode, the mere name of which gives me fits of giggles. Who wouldn't want a Debian box in their pocket? :)
It might work, but it's not quite as simple as what I really really want. I intend, eventually, for this hypothetical gadget to be passed around every week between techs. This means I'd have to buy three new phones, all with Bluetooth support and data plans (to use for tethering to the 770), which is likely to cost quite a bit more, long-term.
Either that, or I buy one phone for tethering, but then whoever's on call that week has to keep track of three gadgets - a personal phone, the Bluetooth phone, and the 770 - which starts getting annoying and cumbersome again. If this mythical device is too big to fit in a pants pocket, it will get left at home, where it doesn't do anyone any good.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
