[GRLUG] Android PDA

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 16:49 -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> At 04:11 PM 5/3/2010, you wrote:
> >Good luck finding a PDA.  They seem to have disappeared from the market.
> The used market for TXs is still going strong, however, .. I replaced 
> the touchscreen on mine with a *glass* touchscreen last year - works great!
> >PDAs have been absorbed into cell phones.  You can't get just a PDA anymore.
> Well, .. the assimilation has **NOT** been successful in my book! I, 
> for one, do not allow Big Brother Google to index and store in 
> permanent archive every email I send/receive or appointment I make. </rant>

Agree. But it is trivial to disable that on the Android.  And it is
still 100% a useful device.

> >I ended up getting a Droid, which works very well (but Eric S. Raymond's
> >Google Nexus One he had at Penguicon looked really nice).
> About the closest one might get is sync'ing to your own server, .. 
> but even that is not mainstream.
> Oh well, .. a friend of mine is an Android developer, and I have him 
> about half convinced to take on a Android <-> Zimbra connector.

Why not use Funambol?  It has an Android client and already syncs to
Zimbra and many other backends.