[BUGA] Mobile phone/PDA recommendations?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

Recently our CTO made it clear that a Real Man uses a Heavy-Duty PDA,
and suggested that I should get hold of one.  I'm not overly
convinced, but it's looking like I need a new mobile phone, so I
should at least investigate the alternatives.

I've done a bit of looking around, and to my immense disappointment I
discover that most of the more interesting devices are
Microsoft-based.  Probably the most interesting is the iPAQ 6515
(http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/product_detail.do?storeName=storefronts&landing=storefronts&category=handhelds&subcat1=see_all_ipaqs&catLevel=2&product_code=901502),
which also has a GPS receiver.  Looking at that, I've come up (after
the event) with a requirement list:

- GSM phone
- traditional PDA, with lots of memory (1 GB or more).  The HP needs
  an external SD card to handle this.
- preferably usable with a UNIX-like operating system, at least as
  dual boot.
- Connectivity.  HP has only Bluetooth and GPRS; I'd be much happier
  with 802.11.
- Camera, I suppose.  The HP has a 1.3 megapixel camera, which is good
  by comparison with others, but marginal by comparison with real
  cameras.

Can anybody suggest useful alternatives to the HP?

Also, I recently read a report on navigation software in PC Authority;
the report wasn't detailed enough to sell me on any of the packages,
but it seems that I can install any compatible package.  Does anybody
have thoughts about this?

Greg
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