Blackberry-like device, MacOS X, and/or IMAP?

[Bruce Dawson]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 12:54, Travis Roy wrote:
> > I recently looked at a Kyocera 7135. Pricey, but it is supported by
> > Linux (at least the Palm part is). And it supports https on the web
> > browser and says its mail client has imap support - but I haven't tried
> > it yet.
> 
> I looked at one of these for BURST! Media when I worked there. It was an
> older version I think but it SUCKED. It was way to big and bulky as a phone,
> the palmos software on it was slow (compaired to a normal palm device).
> Every data call I made was very spotty and I couldn't even keep an ssh
> session open on it.

I think you looked at either the predecessor Qualcomm PDQ (which was
really bad), or the 6035. I found the 6035 to be equivalent to the older
Palm V's.  Data sessions over cellular are notoriously unreliable, which
may have been part of your problem, although I think the using the old
dragonballs processors for ssh is "pushing the envelope" quite a bit (to
be understated).

On the 6035, when I've used it for mail or web browsing, it seemed OK
(but I was usually in Boston where cellular is fairly good). However,
the Eudora web and mail clients really sucked.

> I'm not saying the newer one sucks but make sure you try it out before you
> pay for it because it is pricey

So far, the newer one (7135) looks a lot better, but I'm still putting
it through its paces.

--Bruce
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