> Max Pyziur wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> Per the subject line, would anyone have any recommendations on a >> smartphone under a Sprint plan that smoothly works with F10? >> >> Samsung Instinct? >> The new Palm Centros? >> One of the Blackberries? > > What do you expect to be able to do from the phone? They would all work My first PDA was/is a Sharp Zaurus which used UTF-8 encoding. Many of my contacts are in the FSU, hence the information is in Ukrainian (a bit in Russian) I'd like to be able to move my contact information to a device where I can continue to use this information. I've looked at the Samsung Instinct at a Sprint dealer. While the touch technology is appealing, I saw that the Instinct's web browser couldn't display Cyrillic characters, replacing them with empty squares. Looking briefly through Instinct-related forums to see if a Cyrillic font could be downloaded, there were none. Can the Palm Centro handle UTF-8 or are their fonts only 8bit and Cyrillic is shown in CP1251? Also, I'm not sure what else to look for in a phone. When picture-taking phones were introduced, I thought that it was a novelty and a feature that I would never use. When the choices on an upgrade only included picture-taking phones, I got one. Now, I see that they are useful, especially when there is an expedient need where quality isn't as important as the ability to illustrate the shot (a display in a window, an emergency situation). I see that the Instinct has GPS; I generally know where I'm going, but I'm amazed that when driving during evenings on the New York State Thruway at how many people have a GPS device of some sort visible through the window. Perhaps I too would find GPS useful. Thanks for the reply. Max Pyziur pyz@xxxxxxxxx > for imap email if you have a public address. There are palm ssh and > vnc programs that should run on the Centro. The Instinct can run some > java apps but so far there's no ssh that works with the on-screen > keyboard. It has a windows-only multimedia manager, but you can > access it as a USB storarge device (or put the micro-SD card in a usb > adapter) and access the media/music/images folders directly. I haven't > tried bluetooth access from Linux but that should work too and would > transfer contacts if you can manage them as vcards. I'd call the > instinct more of an entertainment phone than a smartphone but it does > email reasonably well if you can get by with just seeing the most recent > 25-100 messages in your inbox. I think you can only sync the calendar > with exchange or outlook (I used to have a treo and now have an > instinct...). > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
