Engadget had a nice article today on the Windows 7 Phone with XBOX LIVE games. If they can get the integration with the XBOX platform perfectly (say resuming the game where you left off on either device, having the same arcade games available on both platforms, etc..) I think I'll get a Windows 7 Phone over the PSP Android phone. =P

Though I hope Flash makes it onto Windows 7 Phone. Being able to plug it into any HDMI equipped monitor or TV for a gaming/movie session would be amazing.

check a nokia 3720

For me anything branded Nokia is straight off the list of possible alternatives. This turkey has destroyed any faith I had in their phones. And as I have some say in my firms mobile phones and spending, they won't be darkening our door anytime soon either.

I love open source but I also like functioning hardware and workable OS and the N900 isn't. Nothing I want in work can be done on the N900 that can't be done better on other phones and so I am now back to my tytn2 which is 2 years old and runs cruddy winmo6.

So I will probarbly look at Android, perhaps the desire, though I have to make the argument with myself for finances. I wasted £486 on the N900 and can't afford to do that again. So I am hoping the tytn 2 holds out long enough and by then something new will come along. It will be HTC though as they very rarely churn out dodgy hardware. And most likely not the Win 7 as that is lining up to be even worse because they are just copying Apple. Perhaps Android 3 because we are talking next year for my next phone.

I'm beginning to think the model of "one device to bind them all" is obsolete. A lot of people, including me, have two or more little devices. So the idea of something that does everything is basically wrong.

With that in mind, I'm thinking of a small phonelike device that is almost throwaway and is definitely cheap, has a few things like gps and limited note-taking. Then for the OTHER small tablet, which I would take when I don't need to be quite as mobile, it would be something like 7 inches, good mind-mapping, good reading, ok moviewatching, etc etc.

I find that when I'm doing what I would call casual traveling, like within normal commuting range, I don't spend much time web browsing and not all that much time reading, for that matter. So I don't need the N900--it's overkill. When I'm on a five-hour train trip or in my car on a significant trip, pocketable isn't important -- I will carry something about the size of what I carried all through high school and college -- my trusty spiral-bound notebook, which I took on bus commutes and all over without thinking about it, held in one hand, at the ready. Except this thing the size of a spiral-bound notebook will be the do-it-all device, not pocketable -- in fact, I think that when I bring it I will ALSO have the cheap phone in my pocket.

So, when I transcend my N900, I will go to a cheap phone AND a great tablet, but not a 10 inch behemoth like the iPad.

For me carrying one device around is sufficiently annoying.
Carrying two or more is just unacceptable.


Yup. I'm first in a line for an implant.

thanks taking a picture (on the phone) then uploading to an auction listing.then running my ebay account from the full ebay website i want full access not a semi skinned app.i tried this on 3gs and could not make it work (maybe my fault was on a shop demo unit) i do not want to use hosting sites,maybe iphone 4g.Was surprised today used n900 for a while, like my text smileys sent my son one on his tattoo android 1.6 (like streak) nothing he got just black dots not lovely yellow face i thought he was getting not very impressed

Does Android have a word processor for opening and editing .docx documents?

I think you can use Google Docs for that. Not sure about Office applications though.

Quickoffice.

I hate to ask the obvious, but are you wanting to accomplish this all without using a computer?

Because with one, this is a trivial thing. If you want to do this via the phone only, I could look into it - I've yet to reinstall the eBay app, which isn't a bad app, I just rarely used it. The way photos are handled via the internal Photo app leaves a lot to be desired.

If you don't want to use hosting site, what do you have in mind? Upload to eBay? That's the part where how we do things differ. For eBay, I host my own images always and link to it.

Weird about the smiley though.