[Cialug] OT: Best phone for the geek

[Brandon Griffis]

I have several friends that have the mogul and love it.  Having played with
them a little myself, if I needed to get a new phone today and couldn't wait
for Android it would no doubt be the Mogul.

Flee from Palm OS.  It's terrible.  (I used to be a die hard palm supporter,
but their products have turned to garbage in the last few years).  I'm
presently stuck another year with a treo 680.  I can fight with it enough to
cover my needs, but it was one of the biggest mistakes I ever made in
picking out a cell phone.  I leaned hard toward the 680 because I remembered
Palm OS being very stable.  I'm currently rebooting the POS at least once
every 3 days.

Given that Sprint was one of the first networks to join with google and the
open handset alliance I'm guessing that Android will probably release for
CDMA before GSM if not at the same time.

-B

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:21 PM, <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I know I'm evil for wanting WM on here, but I've been using a
> windows PDA for years.  It works with my work PC and my primary home pc
> which, yes...is still on windows.  I'm still working on a complete crossover
> to linux (personally...can't do it at work :(    )  Palm's ok, but I still
> like WM better.  I'd wait for android, but I haven't seen any indication of
> when it's coming and I'm afraid it - like most things seem to - will come
> out for GSM far before CDMA.  Also I know the WM devices can be used as a
> wireless modem with an add-on program w/o doing the phone-as-modem plan.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> wrote:
>
> > Whatever you do, be sure to shop the phone here:
> >
> > http://letstalk.com
> >
> > --Tony
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: "jrnosee at gmail.com" <jrnosee at gmail.com>
> > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> > Sent: Monday, March 3, 2008 4:25:14 PM
> > Subject: [Cialug] OT: Best phone for the geek
> >
> > My current cell plan is about up and my wife, by some miracle is telling
> > me I *SHOULD* get a PDA phone (she never wants me to spend money on tech).
> > I have never liked GSM when I've tried it so unless someone wants to
> > convince me ATT & Tmobile are off my list.  What provider/phone does
> > everyone suggest?  I'm looking at the HTC Mogul from Sprint right now on the
> > SERO program (1250 min and unlimited txt/data for $49.99/mo).  I'd prefer
> > Windows Mobile, since that's what I have now on my regular PDA.
> >
> >
> > -----Inline Attachment Follows-----
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Cialug mailing list
> > Cialug at cialug.org
> > http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Cialug mailing list
> > Cialug at cialug.org
> > http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
> >
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://cialug.org/pipermail/cialug/attachments/20080304/d973719b/attachment-0001.html