What Phone Shall I Buy?

Hello all, after sucessfull answering the theory test required to become
a member I have a question for the phone junkies.


I need a new phone OR PDA and these are the main features im after:

Ability to install software such as emulators for games (doom / duke
nukem), microsoft word & excel editors & PDF viewers.

Ability to put my own music files, image files, docs etc in various
formats onto and read.

I have been using the Sony-Ericson P9** phones before my last broke and
this could handle the above no problem.

Other non-necesarry but desirable features include:

Big Screen
Decent Camera
Video Recorder
Stylish
Touch Screen



Thanks for your help guys.




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hollywood

hollywood <hollywood.20c5d9d@mobile-forum.co.uk> wrote in
news:hollywood.20c5d9d@mobile-forum.co.uk:

> Thanks for your help guys.
>
>

Get the cheapest sellphone you can that supports Bluetooth DUN (dialup
networking), a simple camera perhaps and an MP3 player from a memory card
for music on the go. Then, get a Nokia N800 or N810 Linux internet
tablet that has hundreds of freeware Linux apps ported to it, including
many games and virtual game machines you'll NEVER see on a Sellphone.
http://www.nseries.com/n800.
The tablet, out of the clutches of the sellphone companies hobbling it up
trying to force you to pay by the month to do things, even move pictures
to your computer, is always unhobbled and only uses the phone for
internet access when it can't find decent wifi broadband to connect to.

To see what's available for the little tablet with a REAL 800-pixel-wide
widescreen, cruise to the hacker's tablet home at:
http://www.maemo.org/
setup by Nokia as a repository for the OPEN SOURCE operating system.
Many Linux softwares, like the full-featured Abiword Linux word
processor, have been ported to Maemo Linux, already. More comes in every
day. You DO NOT have to be a Linux expert to use it. It's easier to
install and maintain software on Maemo Linux than Windows XP and the
hackers have lots of really neat addon stuff to make it a one-click world
on the nice Hildon GUI it uses.

Check it out before spending piles on something all hobbled up with
crippleware by some crappy bastards at sellphone carriers. By the way,
I'm sitting in a diner, on free wifi from the bar next door, using
Linux's rdesktop to connect the tablet to my WinXP box back home. The
full desktop, except for video and audio, is available from wherever I
go. rdesktop simply logs on. This software is free on maemo for one-
click downloading and installation. When one clicks those green arrows
on the software pages, with the tablet's browsers, either Opera or
Mozilla, the tablet's application manager pops up and installs them,
automatically. It's that simple...simpler than WinMobile or Palm.

I don't use the nice email client that comes with the tablet. I use
Pegasus on my main computer over rdesktop, completely eliminating the
syncing and dual data storage problem. Same with this meesage and your
reply...

> "hollywood" <hollywood.20c5d9d@mobile-forum.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:hollywood.20c5d9d@mobile-forum.co.uk...
>
> Hello all, after sucessfull answering the theory test required to become
> a member I have a question for the phone junkies.
>
>
> I need a new phone OR PDA and these are the main features im after:
>
> Ability to install software such as emulators for games (doom / duke
> nukem), microsoft word & excel editors & PDF viewers.
>
> Ability to put my own music files, image files, docs etc in various
> formats onto and read.
>
> I have been using the Sony-Ericson P9** phones before my last broke and
> this could handle the above no problem.
>
> Other non-necesarry but desirable features include:
>
> Big Screen
> Decent Camera
> Video Recorder
> Stylish
> Touch Screen

Isn't that Sony-E. phone made by HTC? If so, maybe one of the HTC phones
would work with the programs you named. The Tyton/Kaiser/Tilt models do
much the same and with a GPS addition that can be handy. However, they are
a bit slow in the video department for games as Qualcom and HTC butted heads
over including some decent video drivers.

Seems Qualcom and Nokia are also butting heads over patents as well. Be
careful if "games" are your major concern as video rendering can be very
slow if the phone doesn't have a decent driver package included.

B~