What to choose? Need new PDA.

[misioooo]

Hi all!
Time to part with my old (but still very good phone!) Motorola V6 maxx.

Now i need something more advanced. Features i desire most are:
1. Personal manager (organizer, calendar, appointments, contacts etc.)
2. GPS (yes, i need it in same device - i am riding a motorcycle thus i cant get with me tons of hardware. One device is more than i can take sometimes!)
3. Phone with at least UMTS (3G). HSDPA not required. (reason - read 2).
4. WiFi (not a must-have, but good to have).
5. Some camera (2MPix is more than enough).
6. Possibility of customization - i like it to work the way i want, not what manufacturer intended to do.

I'v had Siemens SX1 some time ago - but Symbian isnt for me. I prefere Win Mobile ;) My wife got recently HTC Touch Dual - beside lack of GPS it is awesome. Has everything what i need. Beside GPS...

I have one favorite - HTC Touch Cruise (Polaris). But i am not sure if i wont find something better. I like TouchFLO - no need for stylus in most cases. I also considered Eten X800, but i'v read many bad things about Etens in general (even bad things about SirfStar III in it - but i think it is a little better than Qualcomm or w/e is in HTC). I want you to post some pros/cons for different devices. 800-900$ tops. Just point me some device and write some pros (you like most in it) and cons (you hate something in it). I dont care if it will be VGA or lower res. I want functionality and speed (some old 100MHz with 32MB ram is rather not too fast ;P )...

Cheers!

[EmZvr]

I think HP 614c is the perfect one for you. It has everything ;]
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/sm/WF06b/215348-215348-64929-3352590-3352590-3544358-3544385.html

[misioooo]

Looks nice, but GPS... Assisted GPS requires my provider to have some special A-GPS Servers. I have aGPS in my current motorola - no success to use it in Poland... No provider offers here AGPS servers :/ Beside it requires patment for data transfer ;) So lets talk about SirfStar, Qualcom or other real, hardware GPS receiver built in.
Also i prefere touch-only or sliders. I dont like the look of whole keyboard all the time.

[orb3000]

What you think about this one?

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_touch_pro-2413.php

It seems to cover all your needed points.

Or if you want to spend more money this is the best!

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_advantage_x7510-2267.php

Cheers

[misioooo]

Touch Pro - looks cool. But not for me. I just dont like (or even hate) look of this shiny thing. For woman - ok. But for me - nah ;) Beside it costs 30% more than mentioned polaris. Now i am also considering Kaiser - it is much cheaper in Poland ;) If Touch Pro would cost same $$$ as polaris (or less) - then ok. But i dont want to pay for look and fancy 3D TouchFlo... I prefer usability over design and fireworks (and those can lower overall speed of device, altho Pro has quiet a bunch of RAM and ROM!).

Advantage - rather impossible to take it on motorcycle and use it as GPS ;) Too big! And too pricy - i dont need it. For pure PC stuff i have my thrustworthy notebook ;)

If no other suggestions - i am now considering Polaris (a bit pricy tho), Kaiser (nice "brick" - i like it) or some Eten (X800 preferably - cheaper than both mentioned above)... But Eten doesnt sound good to me...

[Rudegar]

polaris is allmost as shiny though
http://www.coolsmartphone.com/images/stories/Polaris/compare1.jpg

[misioooo]

Yeah, but it looks like metal. Diamond is plain black thus looks like plastic toy for me.

I think i will go for Kaiser. If only P3470 had better CPU... :/ Matte plastic looks better than shiny one! Or Artemis... But lack of RAM and CPU power can slow it down a bit.

[promsmanager]

misioooo,

Just wait a few days for the Palm Treo Pro:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=419354


It's a WM6.1 device with all of your wished specs and a nice "iphone design"

[misioooo]

Looks nice but not for me. I mentioned earlier that i dont like open keyboard. Beside flat surface (like iPhone) looks odd to me. And price... I doubt i will get it for ~400$ (price of new imported Kaiser in Poland). If price were good for this Pro i could buy it - but not with keyboard visible all the time.

BTW - why you are so eager to advise me something different from Kaiser? I know about it flaws (lack of proper chipset drivers, battery drain after using GPS bug and few others). And it has everything i need + some extra. And i believe that HTC will solve "drivers problem" for all their phones someday... For now i cant say anything bad about Nike performance (didnt tested GPS obviously). And lack of proper drivers for me is minor flaw (using phone more for business and contacts than multimedia).

Maybe there is something more to it that noone suggests me Kaiser? Is it bad or something?

And is it really needed to have 128MB RAM memory onboard? I se lot of devices nowadays (new ones) that have 64 RAM. Is the difference in performance visible between 128 and 64MB? CPU of course makes the difference - no discussion here (200 vs 400MHz, even without drivers prolly).

Or maybe i should get older Wizard?

--EDITED
I meant Hermes of course. But it has GPS or not? From what i read it has build-in GPS receiver but some PINs are disconnected physicaly and stock ROM also has it disabled (who cares about stock ROM?). Also 400MHz CPU is enough. But is 128ROM/64RAM enough?

Also if 64RAM is enough Trinity looks awesome, costs less than Kaiser and has all the functions i want (including built-in, working GPS receiver).