[Gpe-list] Handheld/PDA PIM Recommendations

[Peter Bart]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 15:39 +0200, Nils Faerber wrote:
> Peter Bart schrieb:
> > Hello Everyone,
> Hi!
> 
> > 	I own two Nokia 770's who have done their job faithfully until I
> > finally scratched the screen on one almost past usability. I need to
> > replace this device with something similar that of course runs Linux. I
> > am looking for something that will have a PIM with audible alarms on the
> > calendar and of course all the consumer applications we have gotten so
> > used to on the 770. That would be email, games, xjournal, leafpad,
> > sdictionary, desktop weather and search engines, SpotYah, media
> > player(s), Gnumeric, and some sort of sync to Evolution. Would going to
> > the Nokia 800 be a good idea or are there better options out there?
> 
> Depends on when you want it and which state you are looking at ;)
> 
> For me there are currently only too valid alternatives:
> - Nokia Maemo/Hildon devices, either 770 or N800
> - FIC NEO1973 with OpenMoko
> 
> The first is mature and stable.
> The second is rather for the more adventure-loving people ;)
> 
> Apart from those I am not aware of any major alternatives right now. But
> the market is changing rapidly right now. I assume that within the next
> one or max. two years we will see at least five new and open enough
> devices going to market - I have no internal info on this, this is just
> my gutt feeling.

Hi Nils,
	Thanks for taking the time to answer, I was hoping either you or
Florian would. I have been watching OpenMoko with a lot of interest but
it is a little to bleeding edge for me. I'm looking in the Metro Detroit
area of Michigan, USA. From what I've been able to gather about the
Nokia's is that the 770 was the test device, the 800 is the more tweaked
and refined device and much closer to what the the next device will
possibly be. So hopefully there will not be the disparity between
Nokia's OS2007 and the next device OS as there is now between Nokia's
OS2006-07.
	I take it that audible alarms are available on the 800 and used by GPE
calender? I gather power management is much different from the 770, is
the calender able to "wakeup" the 800 to sound the reminder alarms? The
person getting the new unit really wants them and of course I would
inherit the other 770.

Best Regards,

-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net