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I've been asked by a family friend what PDA to buy for another family friend - he's about 60ish and has an aging Dell Axim Win CE PDA thing. She's thinking a smartphone/ pda in the style of an iPhone would be a good step up. He runs his own business, so something for checking emails, looking at documents on the fly and keeping notes, calendar etc is what he needs.
The thing is, I know itunes has morphed into an absolute pig of a piece of software - it's a huge resource hog and just ugly to use, and I reckon this could be an issue. Also, what's the learning curve like for the iphone?
Win7 phones I'm not sure about - too early to tell, I guess - but I know they also have to use the Zune software to sync, which is also something of a behemoth.
Blackberry is an option, and certainly the most business-like of the handsets around, but I'm guessing there's a fair amount of hassle in setting up the Blackberry server email whatsit?
Soooo.... all that said, can anyone give me some pointers and useful feedback or experiences so I can appear all knowledgeable and give the right answer?
Cheers
Do a search, there was a recent thread on this.
Does it have to be a phone as well? if not, the iPod Touch does pretty much everything that the iPhone does but a lot cheaper. They could then get a cheaper/simpler phone.
I'd pondered using an iPod Touch, then running something like JoikoSpot on a Nokia E71 to turn it into a wifi hotspot for the rare occasions I didn't have access to Wifi.
loddrik - good call, found it.
miketually - also a good point, have asked!
Why be worried about iTunes?
If it is being used as a PDA then he won't be using iTunes.
I would have said that an iPhone would be the easiest set for a newbie to work out. My father-in-law had a play with mine and within minutes he worked it out (in the past I have spent ages getting him up to speed with other smart phones that he had been supplied with by his office).