Smartphone

[Dave Hall]

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 12:51 +1000, Scott McKean wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I need to purchase a new smartphone as my previous one was stolen. I was
> using a Palm Treo 650 and it was syncing  contacts, tasks, calendar
> nicely to my Ubuntu (gutsy) workstation with evolution and the gpilot
> conduit.
> 
> I would like to be able to use the phone on the road for internet
> connectivity (preferably NextG, or 3G) with my Hardy notebook, via
> bluetooth.
> 
> I have looked into the Palm Treo 750 and the Blackberry but neither seem
> to be very easy to sync with Evolution (require running a virtual
> machine and using an online service as well).
> 
> If anybody could point me in the right direction it would be much
> appreciated,

You could try the Nokia N95 - I have documented using it with ubuntu on
my blog http://davehall.com.au/blog/dave/2007/11/18/my-new-toy-nokia-n95
there is some useful info in the comments too.

Cheers

Dave