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

[Jeff Wasilko]

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