I saw my first P800 yesterday. It's a gorgeous piece of kit, but... well... it's just too big. I suspect it's only about as big as a combined phone/PDA needs to be to be usable, but even at that size it still compromises its utility as a phone. It's too big for a pocket, which in my book is a bit crippling.
Shame, really. I was pretty keen for a while there. But I'll stick with my oh-so-untrendy-but-not-exactly-nickable-either Bluetooth-enabled T39, thanks. And bits of paper, and a Newton when I need it.
Shucks. Will somebody please produce a tablet computer with a screen between five and eight inches diagonal, and batteries that last a day or so? Please? Pretty please? And then, a tiny Bluetooth cellphone with a flip, like the T39, so the keys simply cannot get pressed when it's shoved in one's jeans.
Thanks awfully.
Nahh, you wanna Nokia 7650. Got one on trial (video) and very impressed. Not exactly a PDA, and not allowed at work (“It’s a camera, sir, please hand it in…”), but it’s a start :-D
Has bluetooth, infrared, web browser, video player/recorder, little apps, and a porting document viewer thing that works off MS Word.
Oh, and it’s operating system isn’t MS - HOORAH!
Yeah, but the Nokias don’t handle vCard and vCal stuff quite to spec, and all the oh-so-smooth Mac OS X Bluetooth sync stuff falls over with them. While the P800 is also bust at the moment, we’re assured that this is a bug that will be fixed, rather than a feature of dubious intent.
My current T39 I have synced with my OS X Address Book, which is bliss. Heck, it’s indirectly synced with my Newton, of all things!