<div>For Web browsing and Google Maps and other Internet related things like e-mail, I'm EXTREMELY pleased with my iPhone. I use the heck out of the internet access for browsing, email, Google maps, and more. </div>
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<div>The monthly bill is for "unlimited" Internet access is $18 more expensive than what I paid AT&T for my Motorola RAZR with VERY limited (and almost useless) internet access. </div>
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<div>As a contrast to that, I'd recommend AGAINST a Palm Treo cell phone. I say that because I'd used the WiFi stuff on my Palm TX and the Palm web browser (same as on the Treo) was what convinced me NOT to get a Palm Treo cell phone instead of an iPhone. It's not anywhere close to a full browswer. Note that I've used Palm units for years. I tried some other Palm based browsers too. All junk. Web browsing on the Palm is absolute garbage. Email is adequate. Google Maps IS available and not too bad, but the screen on the Treo is smaller than the iPhone. On the plus side, you can probably get some SSH or other clients easily for the Treo. You can get 'em for the iPhone too, but you must "hack" the phone to install them at present. The hacking process is all one-step GUI-based, however. I haven't tried it myself, but it looks slick. I'm thinking about doing it.</div>
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<div>The iPhone's browser is OS X Safari, based on the Konqueror (sp?) engine that is probably familiar to Linux folk. I believe that the Konqueror engine is used in another cell phone/brand as well but I cannot recall the brand/model at the moment. A bit of Googling will probably find it for you.</div>
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<div>Another iPhone plus for Linux folk is....it runs OS X, a BSD Unix variant. You can (unofficially) do all sorts of Unixy stuff, if you want. OReilly just released a book on hacking the iPhone.<br> </div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/26/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Nuzum</b> <<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi, a while back I saw talk about cell phones that had wifi built in.<br>My cell phone died (it went through the laundry). I've wished for a<br>
phone that wasn't too expensive that could do a little more than just<br>be a phone. I'd like to be able to surf the web (for doing maps,<br>reading wikipedia or the news etc, view/edit google calendar) when in<br>
wifi range.<br><br>Can anyone recommend a phone? I'm not positive but it looks like the<br>tmobile blackberry curve 8320 can. As an added benefit it looks like<br>it can use voip when you're at home to avoid using cell phone min,<br>
though I don't know if that's worth $10/mo as little as I use the<br>phone.<br><br>I guess the only reason I ask for wifi is because I'm almost always<br>near it. However maybe there's some innovative service that gives<br>
ubiquitous internet access that is very inexpensive. However this will<br>be a phone first and foremost.<br><br>--<br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode<br>_______________________________________________<br>Cialug mailing list<br>
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