I used to love my Nokia E70, but they shipped me a dud. My eyes have been wandering towards the E61i, because that's what my eyes do. As an OS, I like Symbian a great deal. Nokia doesn't have the form factor I want (slider and full keyboard). If I had my druthers (and a bunch of cash) maybe I'd try a communicator.

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When I upgraded to Leopard, Palm syncing broke entirely. That was the last straw.

I promised myself I wouldn't buy any new gadgets until the new year, so now all I'm doing is waiting until the Steve Jobs keynote on Jan 15 to get an iPhone. If they introduce a 16GB model, that would be really sweet.

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I'm sick of my Treo crashing all the time. What should I replace it with? (OTHER than an iPhone...something with a real keyboard that I can actually afford would be nice.)

This is what drove me away from my Treo. I tried Windows Mobile for a year and it sucked donkey balls. Kristin has a Blackberry Pearl and she really likes it, you might like the Blackberry 8800 as it has a full keyboard instead of the odd hybrid keyboard of the Pearl.

I must say I was suspicious of the keyboard on the iPhone but took the plunge anyway and it turns out to not be the problem I expected it to be.

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Yeah, I love my Helio Ocean, but you're probably not wanting that. I recently got the Blackberry "Curve" (I think the 8800) for work--it's got the pearl, and a full keyboard. It's not too bad.

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I would *love* a Nokia E90 communicator, but the N95's pretty sweet too.

My realistic price range is "whatever I can dig out of the sofa cushions," but the inability to send a freaking TEXT MESSAGE without this phone crashing is driving me to drink.

When I upgraded to Leopard, Palm syncing broke entirely. That was the last straw.

ARGH. UNCOOL, STEVE.

ND, I have an iPod Touch and the keyboard drives me bananas, as does the inability to copy-paste. I'm just old-fashioned enough to prefer a phone with buttons and a stylus.

Maybe I'll check out the Blackberry Curve. Sounds like whatever I switch to I'll be ditching Palm, which means finding all third-party apps. (I am extremely addicted to playing Sudoku, Freecell, and Scrabble on my morning commute. Having to give up any of these would make me extremely cranky.)

Or maybe I'll hold out for an Android phone...

Anyone used the Verizon LG Voyager? I could probably get one of those practically free if I renewed my contract.

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ND, I have an iPod Touch and the keyboard drives me bananas, as does the inability to copy-paste. I'm just old-fashioned enough to prefer a phone with buttons and a stylus.

I totally understand this. I've got my fingers crossed that come January and some third party apps being available some of these things might get fixed. The lack of copy and paste is just eyeroll inducing.

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By the way - a month of iPhone thoughts: battery life sucks, software bugs are just stupid (why oh why can't you web browse and listen to music without it crashing? Seriously?), "Notes" function is pointless 'cos it's not synchronised, camera isn't very good, lack of Flash support in browser is seriously annoying. I still love it, but it's gonna take them a while to fix the software issues.

Ya, now that I'm using it more for iPod reasons, I do wonder why it like quits to desktop when browsing and listening. This morning I learned that it doesn't always like to snap a picture while listening to music. I've had good luck with the battery, I wonder if you have a bad unit in that regard. Ya, the Notes is wanky. But you can e-mail the note to yourself (over and over and over ...) [sarcasm]. But, I'm with you. I do love it. So much easier than carrying pod, phone, and PDA. I look forward to Jan/Feb and 3rd party apps. Hopefully an OpenOffice kind of word/excel reader/editor. Even if it's Pages/NumbersLE or something. I'd buy that in a HEARTBEAT.

oops, sorry. iPhone babble. I'll stop.

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The most irritating part of switching from my Palm is the calendar. Anyone know if a Nokia E70 would normally update one's Outlook schedules?

I don't have Outlook, I think, mostly. But I'd reinstall it so that I'd have somewhere to look at what's happening when on my PC. Does anyone know what my options are, in terms of PC apps? I do miss that part of the Palm platform/desktop, the integration. But it was for ass even just creating an email in Eudora. Cranky.

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if you have vista, you can sync with windows calendar (with nokia) instead of only outlook. Lotus Notes can also be synced with nokia phones.

I did like airset.com for syncing palm with an online calendar. Airset is excellent and they do have a mobile version for some phones that's about $5 a month.

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I use goosync between palm and google calendars which has always worked great. But when I mixed Plaxo in things got wonky and I have dupes everywhere now.

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