2004/12/29

I got a new phone today... managed to make it a whole nine months before upgrading this time!

The Audiovox SMT 5600 smartphone has got to be the mother of all smartphones. I don't have time for a full review right now, but I will say i have finally found a phone which provides me almost all of the convergence I've ever wanted in a phone: mp3/ogg player, expandable memory, networking, bluetooth, modem, calendar/PIM functions, and programmable so i can fill in the spots that don't work as i'd like. So far the only thing i've found about windows mobile 2003-based smartphones is that nobody seems to support syncing to anything other than outlook. I'm going to see if i can't find a way to set up calendar sync to an ical file so i can use it with sunbird/calendar from the mozilla people. That doesn't take care of contact syncing, but one thing at the time, right?