Re: Linux compatible Smart Phones (Sprint or Verizon)

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:40:24 -0600, General Schvantzkopf wrote:
I'm starting to think about upgrading my phone. I'm current using a
Sprint Treo 700p. Fedora has lost the the ability to sync with the Treo,
there was a udev change a number of months ago that broke gpilot in F7,
the udev change migrated back into FC6 and it's also in F8. The bug has
been open for several months but after some initial activity nothing has
happened for the last couple of months. Hotsyncing still works in SUSE
10.3 so when I want to sync the Treo with Evolution I have to boot into
SUSE and do it there which is pain in the ass. Also it looks like Palm is
going down for the count so the hoped for Linux based Palm is probably
never going to see the light of day. So it's time to think about moving
on to another brand.

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Hi-

I went through the same thing just recently. I had a Treo 650 which
started having a variety of ailments. I had decided to move completely
off the Treo line and go back to a basic phone but as usual once I get
to the sprint store things changed. I settled on a Centro which syncs
to Ubuntu very easily using pilot-link and jpilot so I think it would
probably work with evolution. On Fedora, according to some stuff I've
read, a udev rule had to be changed out. On Ubuntu Gutsy, I hooked the
phone up and the first time nothing happened so I manually inserted the
visor module. After that it all just works now.

The Centro has a bunch of stuff bundled like an IM client, a new version
of VersaMail which seems to actually work, and other applications. The
form factor is smaller though and you should go to a store and touch one
and see if you can live with the changes. For me, it came down to price
versus functionality versus use. I could not see paying almost 450.00
for a new treo when the Centro came in at 99.00 and had the majority of
applications you listed except for ssh. I owned previous installations
of a few applications I had purchased that I transferred over to the new
hotsync user I had created.



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