nathan28
March 25th, 2011, 08:34 AM
My old carrier plan has been expired for a while now, and I've been thinking about getting a smartphone, but Ubuntu is making it hard.
Consider this my "angry man paranoid pyramid". In order of importance:
--it absolutely has to play nice with Ubuntu, in an almost Mac "just works" way. I don't need a GUI, but I do need not to spend twenty hours on google searching for packages from Slackware repositories where 50% of the dev team died during the Clinton administration.
--NO GOOGLE APPS. NO GOOGLE APPS WORK-AROUNDS. Google has enough of my personal data on file, they get no more. The line must be held. Besides, a work-around isn't a feature, it's a bug.
--task list and calendar. Must sync task list easily. CLI use and config is fine. Having to learn QT is not.
--Syncs LOCALLY via usb or bluetooth, Cloud functionality is fine but SHOULD BE A FALLBACK NOT A FEATURE. If it has a disk, my laptop has a disk, and I have a USB cable, I'm the ******* superuser, not AT&T's capped data plan requiring I beam my data to a satellite first to get it to my disk six inches away. They can't afford to sell bandwidth cheaper, but they can afford to set up warrantless wiretaps? Throttled DSL over decaying 50-year-old copper lines is "the future of broadband?" Can we just nationalize these jokers?
--physical keypad that's good
hard-coded facebook/ebay/amazon
--Does Thunderbird 3.0 w/ Lightning sync with anything?
--Oh, yeah, phone and SMS
Things that don't matter:
--screen resolution
--touchscreen or multitouch
--mp3/music/movies/games/porn
--e-books
--app stores
--gps maps
--fancy web browser
--looking cool (task lists aren't cool)
--8mpx dual-lens 3d camera
Am I being too cantankerous? All I really want is a calendar with a keyboard attached that syncs with my machine without major command-line brawling. Should I just cave in and get a droid phone? Or take out the old palm pilot IIc? Load lubuntu on a used G1 and use it as a PDA? :(
Consider this my "angry man paranoid pyramid". In order of importance:
--it absolutely has to play nice with Ubuntu, in an almost Mac "just works" way. I don't need a GUI, but I do need not to spend twenty hours on google searching for packages from Slackware repositories where 50% of the dev team died during the Clinton administration.
--NO GOOGLE APPS. NO GOOGLE APPS WORK-AROUNDS. Google has enough of my personal data on file, they get no more. The line must be held. Besides, a work-around isn't a feature, it's a bug.
--task list and calendar. Must sync task list easily. CLI use and config is fine. Having to learn QT is not.
--Syncs LOCALLY via usb or bluetooth, Cloud functionality is fine but SHOULD BE A FALLBACK NOT A FEATURE. If it has a disk, my laptop has a disk, and I have a USB cable, I'm the ******* superuser, not AT&T's capped data plan requiring I beam my data to a satellite first to get it to my disk six inches away. They can't afford to sell bandwidth cheaper, but they can afford to set up warrantless wiretaps? Throttled DSL over decaying 50-year-old copper lines is "the future of broadband?" Can we just nationalize these jokers?
--physical keypad that's good
hard-coded facebook/ebay/amazon
--Does Thunderbird 3.0 w/ Lightning sync with anything?
--Oh, yeah, phone and SMS
Things that don't matter:
--screen resolution
--touchscreen or multitouch
--mp3/music/movies/games/porn
--e-books
--app stores
--gps maps
--fancy web browser
--looking cool (task lists aren't cool)
--8mpx dual-lens 3d camera
Am I being too cantankerous? All I really want is a calendar with a keyboard attached that syncs with my machine without major command-line brawling. Should I just cave in and get a droid phone? Or take out the old palm pilot IIc? Load lubuntu on a used G1 and use it as a PDA? :(