Treo, Q or Blackberry: Suggestions?

DO NOT get the windows version if you buy a Treo. get the palm os version.

personally, I love my Treo. I carry a Blackberry for work and a Treo as my personal phone (home/cell) and while I appreciate them both, the Blackberry lacks major functionality. The Q would be fantastic if it weren't a windows machine. windows sucks. the Treo, though, is just awesome. you can do so much with it. personally, I've rediscovered how much I love telnetting into MUDS and MOOs.

WhyFi wrote: One Palm app that I love - PalmVNC. It allows you to tap in to your home PC from your phone. Need a document that's on your hard drive at home? Tap in and email to yourself. Too cool.

OH, and THE BEST accessory for a Treo, the SanDisk Ultra II SD Plus. It's an SD card that folds in half, revealing a tab that can plug in to any standard USB connector - it makes it so incredibly versatile.

rock! two great tips! thanks!

also, VersaMail works well for me, but obvi I don't use VersaMail for work email - just personal.

oh, and I'm on Cingular.

I also looooovve my Treo. Being an early adopter, I have only the humble 600, but it's holding up well. Mr. M, as he's known around here, has the 650, which has a nicer keyboard and camera but seems to crash sometimes, which mine never does.

Do you mean that the BB feels right/better in your hands, or are you talking about the way the software operates? 'cause I've never been a tactile fan of BBs - they feel flimsy compared to my Treo...

On the PC, you can sync with either Palm Desktop or MS Outlook. On the Mc, I believe you can sync only with Palm Desktop. Either way, it's pretty easy. The Mr. and I both have 6+ years worth of calendar and contacts that we manage without many problems. The only issues I can think of were: (1) a previous version of the Mac Palm Desktop was buggy, so for a while he backed his stuff up on a work PC instead of his Mac, but they fixed it now and (2) I used to sync with two different PCs and once, when I got a new Palm and synced for the first time, managed to duplicate every calendar entry I had up to that point. It took forever to delete them. But now I've heard there's a shareware to fix that. Anyway, syncing with multiple computers requires more attentiveness than I was giving at the time.

i love my blackberry.

pertaining to the poll above -- i once killed a cell phone by dropping it into the foot bath during a pedicure. whoops!

Emily wrote: [quote=apollonia666]
Oh, Jeebus, MUDs... playing on MUDs was responsible for my first-ever trip to NYC. To be a guest on "Geraldo."

Remind me to tell y'all that story at happy hour sometime.

I think we have to have a happy hour for that express purpose!

srsly.

Emily wrote: On the PC, you can sync with either Palm Desktop or MS Outlook. On the Mc, I believe you can sync only with Palm Desktop. Either way, it's pretty easy. The Mr. and I both have 6+ years worth of calendar and contacts that we manage without many problems. The only issues I can think of were: (1) a previous version of the Mac Palm Desktop was buggy, so for a while he backed his stuff up on a work PC instead of his Mac, but they fixed it now and (2) I used to sync with two different PCs and once, when I got a new Palm and synced for the first time, managed to duplicate every calendar entry I had up to that point. It took forever to delete them. But now I've heard there's a shareware to fix that. Anyway, syncing with multiple computers requires more attentiveness than I was giving at the time.

When syncing Palm OS with Mac OS-X, you can use Palm Desktop or iSync, which backs up your contacts to Address Book and your calendar to iCal. I'm not sure about Outlook, but I can't imagine why anyone would want to use that program if they had a Mac.

YORE ALL NURDS!!!11

In honor of pensodyssey, and in light of my temporary (I hope!) state of turkey-induced paralysis, I will, on this - the Blackest of Fridays, post exclusively from my gigaflop-capable smartphone...

Okay, okay - ya got me... it's not turkey paralysis that necessitates posting from my phone... it's just that my Black Friday shopping costume (Stormtrooper, natch) doesn't allow me to sit comfortably in my surround-sound gaming chair. Besides, what else am I going to do later, while standing in line at Best Buy? Play with my Wii?

WhyFi wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]rock! two great tips! thanks!

Oops! I had to correct my link for the SD card - the one that I originally linked (and the one you quoted) was the non-'Plus' version.

Oh, and if you want to get super covert, put PStart on the SD Plus card - when you plug it in to a PC, it'll allow you to run programs directly off of the card. I usually carry a portable FireFox, complete with all of my saved favorites, etc. Try tracking my 'net surfing habits now, IT department!!! (I'm sure that they still could, but it would take a lot more work.) I also carry a PC version of VNC on the card, too...

I have a Treo 650 Palm OS version. The SD card slot can handle up to a 2GB SD Card, but I hacked my Treo so it could handle a 4GB SD card. Originally, the Treo can only read cards in FAT16 format, hence the 2GB limit. I replaced the FAT16 file with a FAT32 file and bingo, 4GB card recognize.