What to replace a Palm Treo with - for use with Ubuntu.

[Chris G]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 05:27:37PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > My wife's Palm Treo is feeling its age in various ways and needs
> > replacing.  Currently she synchronises the Treo with Evolution in
> > Xubuntu using the built-in Gnome/Evolution software.
> >
> > So, what can we buy now to replace the Palm that will allow her to
> > continue as far as possible in the same way?
> >
> > I'd prefer a solution that doesn't involve a separate server
> > system/process, especially one 'out in the cloud', but apart from that
> > we really don't have any major constraints.
> 
> Have you looked at the Palm Prē? Not sure if it's compatible with the
> old sync methods, though. Logical successor to any PalmOS machine!
> 
The Palm Pré actually runs Linux itself, however that helps not at all
in getting it to synchronise with Linux desktop applications.  As far
as I can tell it's as difficult/incompatible as everything else
nowadays. 

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Chris Green