I'm looking at the google phone, which runs android.  Else I might get the 
droid.  Either way my next phone is probably android.  

But since I'm in the middle of a contract, I bought a cheap iPod Touch, as an 
alternative to the iPhone.  It has wifi, and pretty much everything as the 
iPhone except a camera, internal mic, and compass.  I understand it is similar 
to the iPad as well.   The browser is awesome.  little things like pinch to 
zoom -  it's amazing how much that little bit helps.  With an external mic, I 
can use skype to make free calls, and the UI is lightyears, no, parsecs beyond 
the blackberry.  I knew I got burned with the Storm, but I didn't realize how 
bad until I had the iPod.  Just with typing, I can go way faster on the ipod 
than the storm.  The app store is kinda amusing at times.  I have a nice piano 
synthizer for $1 (multitouch lets you do chords), and a ton of apps for free.

In the last year, I've found that Apple stuff actually works pretty well.  I 
still use Linux on all my servers and my desktop, but for a laptop, I swapped 
my Dell/XP box for a Mac/Snow Leopard.  I don't know why it took me that long 
to make the switch from XP.  (I can't use Linux for that machine because I 
need some commercial tools).  

Since Mac is based on BSD, I can use macports and fink to access pretty much 
anything in the debian repositories, and it's just apt-get with another name.  
So I get most of the OSS software (except the bsd instead of linux kernel), 
and I also get a number of neat mac apps as well.  And if I want linux, I can 
just load a VM.  

So, yeah, I was pretty surprised that I liked Mac.  One drawback: I did have 
to personally sign my soul over to Steve Jobs.  But it was easy to transfer 
the paperwork from Msft.

Jeremy


On Friday 19 March 2010 9:54:10 am Andy Schmid wrote:
> I hear the droid is pretty cool, and its linux based.  I've got co-workers
> who have hacked custom firmware, overclocked/underclocked the cpu, loaded
> on different interfaces, etc.  If that kind of stuff interests you, I would
> go with the driod and avoid all apple products like the plague.
>
> -Andy
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:43 AM, greg wm <tclug1 at greatlakedata.com> wrote:
> > i'm overdue to get mobile.  which way to go?  one thing is clear, i'm not
> > supporting at&t.  credo mobile is for me.  i see rumors i could make an
> > iphone work with credo(sprint).  and then i find the hero, perhaps that
> > would do.  and then i start thinking about ipad or netbook.  first
> > question for either, could any of them (be setup to) ring (like a phone),
> > while sleeping (or could it awaken from sleep in order to ring),
> > especially while running linux?
> >
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