Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Smartphones with keyboards

On 17/03/2010 11:33, Bob Dunlop wrote:
>> To answer Bob Dunlop's question: when I'm away from home I like to use
>> my Aspire One to keep up with email and possibly a bit of web browsing,
>> so I want to be able to use a mobile phone as a 3G/GPRS modem (as I do
>>
> If that's all why carry the Aspire ? more or less what I use my N900 for.
>
> For browsing the builtin browser works fine for me, copes well with things
> like utube. You can download firefox if you like but I prefer the builtin.
>
> For email, well I ssh to home and run mutt. Seems like a Luddite solution
> but both Mutt and nvi work well with the N900 terminal display and keyboard.
>

I would agree. I use my Android phone quite happily to browse the web,
email etc. I run my own IMAPS server from my adsl and use that so I have
full access to all my emails. Although I might move to hosting
everything via gmail as it integrates so well with the phone.

I barely use the laptop at home now as my phone just notifies me of new
mails and I can respond using the phone too.