Still playing with my new toy, the HTC Touch Cruise.
I used to own a Dell PDA that could connect using WiFi and Bluetooth. Well I still own that thing, but it hasn’t seen much use lately. It was rather nice to use, but still it fell through. First of all, I needed a mobile phone to get the communication going, but at the time, there was no 3G network, and GPRS was really slow (still is unless you add EDGE). This limited the usage. And then there was the problem of having yet another gadget in my pocket that needed care and battery charge. It just didn’t happen. Most of the time I managed to keep my phone charged, but the PDA went dead much faster. The bluetooth networking was also quite unreliable. The process of getting my phone to connect to the network and share that connection with my PDA could have been an amusing hobby in itself.
The combination of phone and PDA is so much better. The communication works seemless. If I don’t have WiFi connection, it uses 3G, EDGE or GPRS depending on what is available, and if I turn on the WiFi, and it finds a network, it uses that instead. Syncing a Windows Mobile device with a Mac could have been a difficult task, but I found this nice software called Missing Sync that solves this rather nice. for $39 you get to sync everything on the phone to whatever software you prefer on you Mac, and you get to install CAB files to the phone. WM software that is packed as .exe files is still a problem.
The phone came with a RSS reader, and I have added most of my favorite feeds so I can read on the subway to work.
Now I need to find some good software for blogging on the phone. I have tried PocketSharpMT, but I hope to find something better. Any suggestions is appreciated.