With heartfelt apologies to Alanis:
- Fits in a normal-sized pocket
- A distinct absence of Windows(tm)
- A navigation system based in user-experience reality
- Able to use a wifi connection for data and voice traffic when available
- Able to run, quickly, an appropriately standards-compliant web browser
- Likewise an email client
- Likewise some form or news/rss reader
- Likewise a multi-protocol IM client
- Has a decent camera (~2mp for mobile pics)
- Might as well play real music
- And video, since it’s MY list
- A bright, 720 x 480 (or better) resolution screen
- Sync all applicable content (contacts, feeds, bookmarks, music, video) with my Macs (Yes, more than one)
- Bluetooth 2.0, compatible with Bluetooth keyboards &/or mice
- Capable of being managed with one hand for non-data-entry tasks
- Have a usable keyboard/thumbboard for data-entry/web/email/IM
- Some form of presence management (busy/away/available/driving)
- Is a Quad-band phone, since you never know where you’r going to be
- Multi-tasking capable (my rss reader, IM, and email better be able to work simultaneously)
- A decent speaker so that my alerts (incoming call or otherwise) are crisp even when not loud
- Is itself a work of nearly indescribable beauty
Let me know when you find this HCD!! I got my Palm TX to sync with my Mac through iSync. Now I don't have to run 2 sets of calendars, contacts, etc., etc. The Samsung i300 came close to what you're describing, but it is not sorely out-of-date and no longer supported by Samsung or Palm! They come up with a good thing then don't carry through. Grrrr.