So I joined the “webphone” revolution.
I was sorely tempted to wait until I could get an iPhone on someone other than O2, but the grapevine was showing clear signs that no-one else would offer the “unlimited Internet” deal as O2 have done throughout their iPhone reign in the UK. I was sorely tempted by the Android mobiles, but I couldn’t find any at a price-point that I could justify that had slide-out keyboards – a pet annoyance of mine as I find it really hard to type on visual-only keyboards with no tactile feedback. Anyho, I hadn’t really given the Palm Prē any thought but after using it for a few minutes, I was quite happy with it. Now, I new the Prē was a Linux device, but I was even happier when I discovered that it was so easy to “get into” - no cracking needed, no firmware updating required, just download and install the Palm SDK and away you go!
My shiny new Palm Prē now runs a number of non-Palm applications and modifications– my next challenge is to get it a public IP address and have my Prē show all sorts of “interesting” (to me) stats, etc, on a mini webpage. 