[BUGA] Mobile phone/PDA recommendations?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday, 10 December 2005 at  1:04:15 +1030, David Newall wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Friday,  9 December 2005 at 16:57:12 +1030, David Newall wrote:
>>
>>> I think you'll find, to your even greater disappointment, that not
>>> only are the more interesting ones Microsoft-based, but they work
>>> better on a Microsoft platform than they would on a Linux platform.
>>>
>> I think it's fairly clear that most of the software bundled with it
>> won't work under Linux.
>>
> Huh?  Fascinating how one can say one thing, and somebody can hear
> something different.  What I was trying to convey was the idea that
> Microsoft-based PDAs work better than Linux-based PDAs.

Hmm, not quite what I was saying.  I was sa^Wimplying "software
written for Microsoft works better under Microsoft".

> This is largely, as I went on to explain, because of Microsoft's
> very usable handwriting recognition.  Very usable indeed.

And as I said, handwriting recognition is of no use whatsoever to me.
But I can't see the HP GPS navigation software working under Linux,
for example.

Greg
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