PDA/Smart Phones - which one?

[Terrafin]

i will Helevitia!

but i have a feeling that if i was to be so lucky, the treo650 will have some kind of problems itself... sigh...

its a love/hate thing...

[lecter]

Sony Ericsson have seriously polished their interface & services and imho they're the phones to have at the moment. However, the S7xx series would not be my choice...yes, it has an amazing camera (the only real camera on a commercial phone, it uses a 1.3MP Sony CCD as opposed to some crappy CMOS sensor), Memory Stick Duo Slot and a great screen...however, it's big and it costs as much as (if not more) than a smartphone, while offering just normal phone options.

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by lecter
Sony Ericsson have seriously polished their interface & services and imho they're the phones to have at the moment. However, the S7xx series would not be my choice...yes, it has an amazing camera (the only real camera on a commercial phone, it uses a 1.3MP Sony CCD as opposed to some crappy CMOS sensor), Memory Stick Duo Slot and a great screen...however, it's big and it costs as much as (if not more) than a smartphone, while offering just normal phone options.

hmmm, I haven't seen a price on it yet, what is it?

[lecter]

In the region of 500-600$ (USD) around these parts...

[Helevitia]

Ouch! That is expensive for that device. The P910a is going for $800 USD! Sheesh, yet again, paying more money for the Sony brand name.

[lecter]

Yeah, that's the exact complaint people have had, it's priced way too close to the P910 and only has the camera as a distinct advantage. If you're willing to shell out some cash, you could always try this:

http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,54106,00.html

WiFi, Bluetooth, memory, nice (landscape) screen...I myself am not a fan of that form-factor and again there's the bulk to consider, but it would fit the bill.

[az]

WRT browsing, there will be Opera 7 for Windows Mobile, featuring small screen and medium screen rendering (making webpages readable on small screens without COMPLETELY breaking the layout - hit shift+F11 in your desktop Opera 7 to see small screen rendering in action), there is already Opera 6 for Symbian (preinstalled on Sony P800, P9x0, for instance), Opera 6 will be the standard web app for UIQ 3 (the UI of symbian Smartphones, like the aforementioned Sony types.

Mobile Opera does not include a mailing client, btw, but those are part of symbian/uiq anyway.

AZ

[Terrafin]

lol az you opera freak! :P

but looks really cool, i responding with small screen rendering enabled and can imagine the possibilities... i love it...

sorry to go of topic but az do you know when 7.6 beta will be finalized?

oh and helvitia, here's a more detailed review link for the xda IIi

http://mobile-review.com/pda/review/htc-blue-angel-en.shtml

[az]

I don't know, but since it's still p1 (not even Beta!), I don't think it will be released this month. Sometime this year, I guess

AZ

[Terrafin]

oh sorry, thought it was beta... but its been awhile since a new release... i bet your gonna explode if there's not a new release this year...

[VJ]

Well, I'm currently waiting of the Nokia 6260 (Symbian smartphone)... As expansion, it uses a RS-MMC card, and it doesn't have a touchscreen or wifi. I do believe Samsung has announced a similar phone with an SDIO slot... (edit: sorry, they had this PalmOs 5 prototype phone which was never released)

Here is an overview of the current and upcoming Symbian models:

http://www.symbian.com/phones/index.html

I'm slowly upgrading my Siemens S35i + Psion 5mx. First step is the mobile; seeing as there are virtualy no PDAs with proper keybards perhaps later on I'll opt for some subnotebook.


Jörg

[lecter]

Well, foldable keyboards are quite cheap now and I reckon they'd be better than Psion's (albeit excellent) keyboard.

[Rakido]

To add another contender:

Portable Innovation Technology Limited (PiTech), the world's first PalmSource-certified original design manufacturer (ODM), and Qool Labs, today introduced a new Palm Powered smartphone, the Qool QDA-700. The Qool QDA-700 is also the first Palm OS smartphone to include a 1.3-megapixel camera.


The Qool QDA-700 is based on the smartphone platform developed by PiTech and built on the Palm OS Garnet operating system. It is a tri-band GSM (900/1800/1900mhz) smartphone targeted at the consumer market.

The Qool QDA-700 comes with rich multimedia features including a 1.3-megapixel camera, a high-resolution, 2.8-inch color QVGA (240x320) display, 32MB or RAM, 802.11 SDIO support, WAV/MP3/MIDI ring tone supportability, MP3 player and MEPG4 video capture and playback capabilities. In addition, the device is bundled with productivity applications such as Documents-to-Go and PalmSource Mail, designed to appeal to prosumer and business customers.

Here's the link to the article

http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=7168

and here to a french site with some more photos
http://www.mobinaute.com/mobinaute/a...20040928124012


Rakido

[lecter]

This is a PalmOS device with a non-standard 240x320 screen...I'll bet anything that a lot of apps will have a problem with that.

[VJ]

Not necessarily: some symbian devices have a higher resolution than the standard one, but applications keep running in their native resolution (the added pixels/lines are used to display some status icons). Perhaps there is something similar in the Palm devices...


Jörg