On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 06:34:56PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 14:46 +0100, Chris G wrote:
Any other ideas, comments, etc. regarding getting a "terminal on a mobile phone" that's usable, portable and cheap?
Nokia E90 ? Works pretty well as a phone, full width screen and halfway reasonable keyboard makes it good as it gets for ssh on the move (unless you scale up to a netbook type device like the EEE) Plus it has GPS (with the caveat that Richard mentions that is isn't in the same league as a dedicated GPS device)
The one I had on loan from a client had me pretty tempted, battery life whilst messing with wifi, bluetooth and the GPS whilst also using it as a phone was a respectable couple of days...the only downside was the purchase price (I would have to buy sim free as my provider doesn't offer it) It also works quite well for browsing, although not as well as an iPhone. If you are on a provider that offers it as an upgrade then it might be a viable option.
Yes, the price is a bit OTT for my amount of mobile phone use. I really only use a mobile phone for emergencies, my pay-as-you-go bill for the *year* rarely exceeds £5! :-) However if I had a data capable phone I might well use more as I could then use it as my PDA. I used a Palm for a while for addresses and appointments but since 99% of my computer use is desktop at home and desktop at work the PDA rarely got synchronised. I now access a single address list from home and work (via ssh) and will soon have a single reminders list similarly accessed. The ability to access the same from a mobile device would be very useful.
So it seems to me that maybe separate devices are going to make more sense (and will be less vulnerable to being nicked, important as I'm not very security conscious).