Speaking of phones, my oldest son has been calling me every day for a week, yakking my ear off asking about what kind of phone he should get. How the heck should I know?!? He said "Well, you're a geek and you know geeky stuff, so you should know about this. And even if you personally don't, you have lots of other geeky friends who might know". So, I guess I'm looking for recommendations. <g>

He needs this for his work. He's a P.I. He takes his notebook computer with him in the car and he's usually got stuff loaded up on Streets & Trips, for where he has to go that day. He'd love to be able to have a phone with GPS that would be able to use his Streets & Trips software easily (upload his current maps to the phone from the computer ... I suppose that's not totally necessary, but it would be nice) ... he definitely needs the GPS though. Also, he wants to be able to use the phone as a wireless access point for his computer. The phone should also have keyboard input, not touch screen (yuck to the iPhone).

Anyone have any recommendations so I can get him off my back? <g>

~~Bonnie



>Ok I still don't get what all the hype is about (gooooo marketing dept!)
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>The mobile version of OS X or whatever it is the iPhone runs takes up 700MB of the device's capacity.
>There's no way to cut, copy, or paste text! WHOA! Big, big mistake.
>No A2DP support. That, friends, is such a huge bummer right there. (bye bye stero sound, hello mono)
>Music can't be used as a ringtone -- even if it's just a raw MP3.
>Document file reading -- but not editing -- for PDF, Word, and Excel (only).
>Adobe Flash support is officially out. It's just not in the browser. Neither is there any other kind of embedded video support.
>It will take snaps, but won't record video! How can Apple love YouTube as much as it does and not realize cellphone-shot movies make up a sizeable chunk of the crazy crap you find on there?
>No iChat.
>The keyboard (on screen only, no slideout one) is worthless - all the demo video's they show the guy using one finger to hit the keys - cause that's the only way it really works. aaahh!
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>What a pile of junk man! What kinda dork would buy one of those when you can get something like the Sprint PPC6800 (http://www.evdoinfo.com/content/view/2000/40/) that does a zillion times more for about the same $ or less?
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>...The mind of the American consumer is something of a mystery to me sometimes...now we've got bozo's camping out in front of stores waiting for them.