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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Yeah, I'm not a big PDA guy. I've had a Palm Tungsten E for years, but it's only real use is to keep both my home and office computer calendar's and contacts synched up. It's too clunky to enter text, so I seldom add contacts or events on the PDA itself. I occasionally add something directly to the Palm--say at a conference--or look at my calendar in a meeting, so it is semi-handy. But I mainly use the Palm Desktop Software on my office PC and laptop.
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Keeping stuff in sync has been one of my uses for my PDA. I synced at home and at the office with Outlook, and made my Outlook Contacts folder the basis of the Palm Address Book, and the Outlook Calendar synced with Datebook. Anything added in one place was replicated to the other when I hotsynced, and I had three copies of all of the data.
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So I'd kind of like a phone that could do that as I carry my phone everywhere, but not necessarily my PDA since I don't always have my briefcase with me. And text entry would be better with a keyboard (real or virtual) than the crappy writing recognition on the Palm. Maybe more recent PDAs improved on that though.
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Don't know. I can pretty much deal with Palm Graffiti/Graffiti2, and use the onscreen keyboard for the occasional correction. For any extensive text entry, I use a folding keyboard. I
don't like thumbboards.
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Only thing that's kept me away from a smart phone is the data plans are too expensive for how much I'd use them. That and the iPhone not being on Verizon.
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I'm not bowled over by the iPhone, so it not being on Verizon is a non-issue here.
I'm keeping an eye on the Android device market however. Not for a smartphone, however. I have the Android SDK, and from what I could see, there was no reason what what it powered had to be a phone of any kind. There are apparently some development efforts to produce netbooks with ARM CPUs and Android as the OS, and those might be very interesting.
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Dennis