Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Smartphones with keyboards

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.

The simple answer to that is that my eyesight isn't what it used to be,
and I prefer a "decent-sized" screen and keyboard most of the time,
though I could cope with the Blackberry-sized ones occasionally.

Using ssh to a machine at home also presupposes that the home machine is
running - when we go away for a while I prefer to shut everything down,
to save power consumption...

Ian
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