Tungsten t and recommended Bluetooth phones

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I am currenlty using an Orange SPC C500 (aka HTC typhoon, I think) with my Tungsten T. Whilst it works well for email and browsing, I can't get it to do SMS or dial.

I am due to replace it - what do folks find works well???

I am thinking of a Motorola V3, it is on the supported list, or maybe a 3G phone such as the Nokia 6630 but it is bulky.

Palmone has this list:
(http://kb.palmone.com/srvs/Data/Palm/Templatesets/PhoneLink_UK/phonelist2.html) but most of the phones are old/superseded...

Rgrds

Peter
 
Buy a Treo 650 instead and go to a converged device, that's my recommendation.

Palm is caught in a bad position by having BT enabled PDAs and BT enabled Smartphones and as such they don't update their support files often enough. Most of the time though as along as phone manufacturer is listed on the Palm web site but perhaps that model isn't, the phone manufacturers don't change BT versions much. Most of the time they will work.

My suggestion is go to the cellular store of your choice and ask their sales staff to "test" a phone in house with your T.

But let's be realistic - The T is now 3 year old technology and most of them are probably replaced....so the new phone's may start using a non-compatible BT protocol to the T. You may be hard pressed.

So then I'm back to my original suggestion.
 
Thanks for the response - I have thought of that but there are a number of reasons that go against for me.

I have a Treo 180g and thought that tt was the ideal format but, when I got the Tungsten, I found that I preferred to have a small phone that I could take with me when I didn't need the PDA part. Also the two devices are both pretty small and easier to tuck away then the 180g.

I'm not sure I would like the lack of grafitti - I did have a Treo 180 for a few days and hated swapping from thumbpad to stylus and back. Admittedly, I didn't really have it for long enough to really get used to it. It soon failed and I swapped it for the 180g with grafitti.

However, the biggest drawback is the cost - I could get an ordianry bluetooth phone free of charge on a new contract (that's how they work in th UK) but the Treo would cost about ?200 (say $300).

So, at the moment, I am still thinking of keeping the Tungsten T and trying to get a compatible handset.

Thanks for your thoughts...

Rgrds

Peter
 
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