[sclug] PDA's

[Hans Huberland]

Scott,

I use a Sharp Zaurus. It has many really innovative features: cool 
slip-down keyboard, SD card and CF slots (the CF can take camera, wifi, 
bluetooth, etc).  It runs a Sharp proprietary embedix but it's really 
easy to flash it to Opie (openzaurus.org), a fully open-source ROM with 
a lot of application support such as Konqueror, VNC client & server, 
sshd, rsync, kismet, the list goes on into the hundreds.  
Connectivity-wise it you can rsync it from the CLI if that tickles you, 
or sync with Qtopia desktop on both linux or Windows, you'll also be 
able to find apps on freshmeat to sync to evolution and sylpheed.

On the down side, the SL-5500 is end of life and the SL-5600 has not yet 
been released in the UK.  I saw one in the US and it's definitely worth 
waiting for.  Then again, some suppliers may still stock the SL-5500 and 
the price should be real good right now. 

Enjoy.
Hans

Scott Rixon wrote:

>People...
>
>This seams like a good question for this group..
>
>I am very tempted to change my PDA. I have a Psion 5 at the moment.. I
>find the connectivity to Linux pretty bad so I keep going back to
>Windows!!
>
>Does anyone have an particular favorites at the moment? I have a company
>bluetooth phone so I would like something with Bluetooth. I believe a
>few now have Wi-Fi.. Now that would be cool...
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Scott
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