[BBLISA] PDA/Smartphone for *nix admin types?

[Paul Beltrani]

On Dec 16, 2007 2:32 PM, Jeff Wasilko <jeffw at smoe.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 12:42:45PM -0500, Paul Beltrani wrote:
> >  1) Supports SMS for alerts from my monitoring systems
> >  2) Supports basic email (POP would be fine for retrieving email)
> >  3) Has basic web browsing capability
> >  4) Supports an SSH client
> >  5) Has a useful user interface. (Subjective,  but ANYTHING has to be
> > better than RIM.)
> >  6) Supports Scheduling (see catch below)
> >
> > Numbers 5 and 6 are the tough ones here.
> >
> > For example, every portable device more complex than a basic phone has
> > a  QWERTY keyboard.  (I really miss graffiti and would love to LART
> > the marketing moron that thought a mini, multi letter per key, QWERTY
> > keyboard was a good idea.)
> >
> > Scheduling is complicated by the fact that my current environment uses
> > Outlook for communal scheduling.  A mechanism to automatically
> > synchronize an Outlook calendar with a Google Calendar would be ideal.
>
> The Treo 755p fits the bill. It does it all, including syncing
> via Exchange ActiveSync.
>
> If you want a bigger keyboard, there are bluetooth keyboards.
>
> Lastly, the 755p makes a great bluetooth modem, so for more
> serious work just link it to your laptop and get online...
>
> -j
>

Thanks for the reply.

The ActiveSync capability is interesting,  I didn't realize there was
an application that would synchronize any Palm OS device with
Outlook/Exchange.  I'll have to look into that.

Thank.

  - Paul Beltrani