[clug] linux-friendly mobile/pda

[Jason]

I just recently found myself (on ebay) a sony-erricson p800 which runs symbianOS, I havent really had it long enough to say I recomend it as a phone (would require calling people) but it does its basic organizer jobs as well as my old treo180 which has slowly died on me. It doesnt have a full keyboard, just a virtual onscreen one. I guess its a matter of budget on what phone you get or else I would have gone for a 990 or a treo650. If you find a good phone/pda that runs linux I would be intrested as well, but I dont think your likly to find someone local to sell it to you.

PalmOs can be sunk to linux with a little pain and suffering, I havent tried with the p800 yet.

Jason

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:05:17 +1100, Robert (Bob) Edwards <bob at cs.anu.edu.au> wrote:

>
> Chris,
>
> Thanks for that reply. Looks like nobody answered Ben on much the same
> question last year - nobody that keen on sharing their thoughts on "the
> best mobile for a geek".
>
> What I really want to know is what's available here in Canberra, and
> which suppliers might be worth avoiding etc. The tuxmobil (and
> linuxdevices) sites are great, but most of the phones listed are not
> available here in Australia, let alone little ol' Canberra.
>
> If/when I decide, I'll let anyone interested know what I went with.
> The Samsung/Trolltech Qtopia phones look quite interesting, but I can't
> find a supplier here, yet.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bob Edwards.
>
> Chris Smart wrote:
>>> Time for me to replace my mobile (again) - each time due to failure of
>>> the '0' key (makes dialing most numbers quite difficult, as well as
>>> composing SMS's with spaces between the words...)
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a phone that has good PDA functionality, preferably
>>> even a full alphabet keyboard and that works well with Linux desktops.
>>> I would even prefer one that actually runs Linux as it's native O/S.
>>> Oh, and a good, robust keyboard would also be an advantage.
>>>
>>> What are the Linux folk recommending these days (that's available
>>> in Canberra)?
>> Ben posed this question Nov 2005:
>> http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/2005-November/014577.html
>>
>> might be something helpful there.
>>
>> Also, the linuxlaptop site also has section on getting Linux on phones,
>> but also they mark companies who make dedicated Linux phones with a "*":
>> http://tuxmobil.org/phones_linux.html
>>
>> Dunno, but might find something helpful.
>>
>> -c
>>
>