Previously on alt.cellular.cingular, (PeteCresswell) said:

> Seems to me like if I'm not in a hurry to combine my PDA, and
> cell phone I should wait for Android bco the open-ness of the
> system.
>
> That way, there's at least a chance that somebody will come out
> with a device that incorporates a hard drive too - enabling me to
> fold my iPod into the mix.

I would be leery of a mobile phone device with a hard drive. Hard
drives are too fragile and unlike in laptops like the Toughbook and
some Thinkpads, there isn't enough room to provide sufficient shock
absorption.

How much media do you have on your iPod? The current iPhone, which is
an iPod Touch and cellphone mash-up, comes in 8 and 16GB sizes and I
would not be surprised to find the next hardware version to come in
32GB (no rumors or data to support it, just a personal guess and wish).

> Also, it will avoid a repetition of my current dilemma, which is
> having a whole lot of stuff in a proprietary hierarchical list DB
> called "Brain Forest" on my Palm. Somebody, somewhere, will

No matter what option you go with, odds are you will find up with some
kind of "proprietary" database structure for your data.

What I'm hoping for is that when I replace my Treo I'll be able to get
software for whatever I get from the developers I already use software
from. DataViz, Illium and Chapura already do WindowsMobile as well as
Palm, so I have hope that they'll do iPhone as well, but I'm not so
sure about Ultrasoft. I may have to give up on keeping my checkbook in
my PDA, but I'm reasonably confident that I can get my Datashield info
into something similar.

For me, whether I go with an iPhone or a WinMob device will depend on
what software becomes available for the iPhone in June/July. I would
love to be able to get a 32GB version as then I'd be able to put all of
my music onto it rather than merely most of my music (19GB of it so
far).

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