Comments on: Choosing next cellphone

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:02:44 +0000

@John Garger: I think that everything depends what you need from phone. If you need phone for making calls and messaging then I suggest normal phone rather then one of smart phones.

By: John Garger

John Garger — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:57:57 +0000

Can someone give me an idea whether or not I should go for a smart phone or just use a more stylish phone and wait for some better technology? I am on the Sprint network, and was referred to http://www.sanyowireless.com , but I’m not seeing any options that look like smart phones. I don’t need an MP3 player or a camera, I’d rather have a phone that is lighter and easier to carry. Any recommendations would be welcome.

By: zen

zen — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:58:29 +0000

Hi Marcin,

I have exactly the same problem and similar background. Being Zaurus guy I didn't wan't to use WM phone. But after weeks of research apparently I was thrown into Wm world. My current machine is HTC BlueAngel, and what I can say is: great machine, but bit old.

I'm thinking about Eten M800 and HTC Kaiser. M800 has VGA screen (I was playing with this box for a while, and Internet on VGA is just great), but lacks RAM - 64 is waaaay to little. HTC and xda-developers - that's it. Hard decision to make.

By: chaishop

chaishop — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:55:56 +0000

I see, later came GPE besides OPIE and the proprietary Qtopia thingy.

What I meant with KDE4 being ported to Windows I was thinking it'd open up a cross platform way of PIM on *NIX and Windows. So, I mean more like KOrganizer from KDE4, and with the PIM applications on a device... like a Qtopia phone, or the N810?

If there are libraries able to read from several calendars then they can cooperate each other too. Slowly but surely you have a lot of glue.

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:29:51 +0000

@chaishop: KDE PIM/PI was nearly unmaintained fork of original KDE PIM and OPIE Mail. It had some nice ideas but cooperation with author was nearly not possible.

GPE Calendar is simple application -- I use it on N810 because there is no better alternative.

Symbian platform is something what I do not considered and still do not plan to. And Nokia devices for it lack touch screens.

And what bothers me when I look at PalmOS or WindowsMobile PIM applications is that they are designed to cooperate with application on desktop when it comes to external sources (like webcal resources).

It is not so easy to write good PIM -- otherwise there would be few good ones to choose from. Of course I am writing about applications for mobile platforms because this is subject of that post. I do not plan to run KOrganizer from KDE4 on any of my mobile devices.

By: chaishop

chaishop — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:39:47 +0000

Besides, Nokia recently announced Symbian will be opensourced. I'm still considering a N96! :-)

"KDE PIM/PI is based on PIM applications from the KDE desktop suite for Linux. KDE PIM/PI includes KOrganizer/Platform-independent (or KOPI), KAddressbook/Platform-independent (or KAPI), K-OpieMail/pi (or OMPI), K-Phone/pi (kppi) and PwM/PI, a password manager with strong encryption." From Wikipedia

Too bad Opera/NetFront were pretty shit compared to MicroB on NIT.

pim.kde.org is still alive, and with KDE4 being ported to Windows...

By: chaishop

chaishop — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:33:00 +0000

KDE-Pim existed for Qtopia on the Zaurus long ago. It had a Kitchen-Sync thingy too. For the tablet its possible to sync GPE Calender with Google Calender.

Basically what has to be done is using the libraries for the various databases and syncing with those. From there, just create a simple & functioning, Hildonized calender for maemo.

Bounty on it, et voila.

Unfortunately Nokia is more focussing on multimedia...

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:45:31 +0000

@Morten Pors: feel free to suggest maemo.org administrators to remove this (and probably few others) blog from planet.maemo.org website. From what I see there you would probably vote for remove many of them...

By: Morten Pors

Morten Pors — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:48:35 +0000

This is a typical example of blogspam as it is hardly information that qualifies to take up bandwidth on a heavily exposed site like maemo.org. It is a pseudo discussion just for the sake of blogging something. Much like a typical thoughtfix post.

I am sure your musings as to which friggin cell phone to choose next is of great personal interest to you. Don't waste the community's time with it.

Good luck with whatever you choose.

/Morten

By: XorA

XorA — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:43:01 +0000

I really like my Windows Mobile phone, Ive had the HTC Wizard and the HTC Kaiser (TyTN II) and never looked back.

I've never found an interface or system that works as well and allows me to install the apps I want.

I know the UI isn't perfect, but its certainly the top dog for smartphones at the moment. The other all being severely lacking in usefulness or features.

I wish there was a linux phone that lived up to my Kaiser, but sadly there isnt :-(