Re: Recommendations for Inexpensive PDA

2010-01-30 Thread Dov Grobgeld
Regarding the palm, you can still use the command line programs pilot-xfer and memos to sync with it, so you are not dependent on whether any GUI manager support it or not. I was myself using a palm up to about two weeks ago when I got the near ultimate PDA/portable computer/Phone, the Nokia N900.

Re: Recommendations for Inexpensive PDA

2010-01-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:13:07 +0200 geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > > How will he get Hebrew support for the iPhone? How will he sync it > > with > > Linux? Also he didn't specifically ask for this, but I know when I had > > a Palm Pilot, on

Re: Recommendations for Inexpensive PDA

2010-01-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:22:58 +0200 "Nadav Har'El" wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010, geoffrey mendelson wrote about "Re: Recommendations for > Inexpensive PDA": > > On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > > > > > >So, I am in

Re: Recommendations for Inexpensive PDA

2010-01-28 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Omer Zak wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 20:22 +0200, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > > So, iPhone doesn't seem like a great solution for me. Any other > > suggestions? What are other people using as a PDA ? > > Would it be too naive to assume that today's (and even yesterda

Re: Recommendations for Inexpensive PDA

2010-01-27 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 20:22 +0200, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > So, iPhone doesn't seem like a great solution for me. Any other > suggestions? What are other people using as a PDA ? Would it be too naive to assume that today's (and even yesterday's) smartphones qualify as PDAs? As for me, I use Nok

Re: Recommendations for Inexpensive PDA

2010-01-27 Thread Aharon Schkolnik
On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010, geoffrey mendelson wrote about "Re: Recommendations for Inexpensive PDA": > > On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > > >So, I am in the market for a replacement. I real

Re: Recommendations for Inexpensive PDA

2010-01-27 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 27, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote: How will he get Hebrew support for the iPhone? How will he sync it with Linux? Also he didn't specifically ask for this, but I know when I had a Palm Pilot, one of the things I often did was to transfer *text files* from the computer to the

Re: Recommendations for Inexpensive PDA

2010-01-27 Thread sammy ominsky
On 27/01/2010, at 10:22, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Or, did you mean he is supposed to "jail break" the iPhone to be of any > use? This is true in any case if you want full PDA functionality. --sambo (iPhone 2G owner for a couple of years already) ___ Lin

Re: Recommendations for Inexpensive PDA

2010-01-27 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010, geoffrey mendelson wrote about "Re: Recommendations for Inexpensive PDA": > On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: > > > >So, I am in the market for a replacement. I really want the minimum > >possible - calendar, phone book, et

Re: Recommendations for Inexpensive PDA

2010-01-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Aharon Schkolnik wrote: So, I am in the market for a replacement. I really want the minimum possible - calendar, phone book, etc. I need Hebrew support, and I want to sync with Kontact's calendar, contacts, etc. My hope is that someone will recommend something w