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? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list