mathman
06-06-2004, 08:00 PM
What is a good alternative to the high priced PDA cell phone combos. I feel like maybe I can get much more for my money if I get a PDA & a phone seperate. Listen to my story... I want recommendations.
I have a Treo 180 going on one year. The cell phone PDA combo is great but is leaving me wanting more but not for the high prices. What makes it ideal is the relationship between the addressbook & phone. But nowadays my 180 is a marginal phone with a marginal PDA. If it breaks (which it has 3 times now) I'm stranded with no phone OR PDA.
Three years ago... I had a Palm IIIx & a cell with an IR port. This is the horrible part that drove me to need a cell/pda combo. I find a phone number in the Palm. Then go to my Nokia, fuddle through 3 directories of menus to turn on the IR port. Point them together & beam the contact. Now it gets more dumber;] On my Nokia the only option is save or cancel. I save and the phone shoots me out to the main menu and then have to look up the contact in the phone's address book. Such a stupid process I opted to manually type in the number from then on.
So what are good Cell PDA relationships now? If I got a cellphone & Palm seperate I feel I can get a much better PDA & a good cell phone (with my T-Mobile rebate at the end of my contract this month) for much less than a Treo 600. But if the process of sending numbers to my phone is not yet steamlined then what's the point?
Anyone out there know of a good phone for this. Is IR smarter, does Bluetooth make all this seamless now?
I'm clueless.
I have a Treo 180 going on one year. The cell phone PDA combo is great but is leaving me wanting more but not for the high prices. What makes it ideal is the relationship between the addressbook & phone. But nowadays my 180 is a marginal phone with a marginal PDA. If it breaks (which it has 3 times now) I'm stranded with no phone OR PDA.
Three years ago... I had a Palm IIIx & a cell with an IR port. This is the horrible part that drove me to need a cell/pda combo. I find a phone number in the Palm. Then go to my Nokia, fuddle through 3 directories of menus to turn on the IR port. Point them together & beam the contact. Now it gets more dumber;] On my Nokia the only option is save or cancel. I save and the phone shoots me out to the main menu and then have to look up the contact in the phone's address book. Such a stupid process I opted to manually type in the number from then on.
So what are good Cell PDA relationships now? If I got a cellphone & Palm seperate I feel I can get a much better PDA & a good cell phone (with my T-Mobile rebate at the end of my contract this month) for much less than a Treo 600. But if the process of sending numbers to my phone is not yet steamlined then what's the point?
Anyone out there know of a good phone for this. Is IR smarter, does Bluetooth make all this seamless now?
I'm clueless.