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Hey, when you find out, let me know as well. |
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I think our only hope is to make our own. There is (I think) at least |
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one open source cellphone project going on. |
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Michael |
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, David Dorward wrote: |
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> The contract on my mobile phone is coming up for renewal soon, so I'm |
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> shortly going to be in the market for a shiny new phone. (NB: I'm in |
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> the UK, so it is devices available in this country that I'm interested |
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> in). |
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> I'm looking for a few specific things... |
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> * Can talk to my Gentoo box |
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> * Has a calendar ... that can sync with Evolution |
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> * Has a keyboard or good handwriting recognition |
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> * Lets me write text files and then send them to my Gentoo box |
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> * Not /too/ expensive (Sub-£100 after the contract subsidy) |
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> Any recommendations for devices? |
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> Things that seem to fit are the Nokia Communicator replacement and |
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> various Pocket PC (eeek, Microsoft!) devices (although I don't know |
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> how well either of them work with Linux - Google kept turning up hits |
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> to review pages that had "linux" somewhere in the sidebar). |
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> David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk><http://blog.dorward.me.uk> |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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