Simple Phone With Handwriting Recognition

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I am looking for a phone that has basically two features:

#1) Handwriting recognition (I find the regular T9 as well as the QWERTY keyboards or recent phones tedious and unimpressive, and don't mind the initial learning curve of handwriting recognition).
#2) A good organizer (i.e. calendar, to do) system.

I yearn for the schedule view found in palm OSes, like in the image below:


In essence I would want something like my old palm m100, but with a cellphone built into it. This I suppose would also mean that the screen size should be decent and not 128x128.

I am not interested in cameras unless it is more than 3 megapixels, has a flash and has good image quality, and I certainly don't care about GPRS, EDGE etc.

Price is irrelevant, as well as whether it is available in India or not.

So does such a phone exist?
 
no replies??? 🙁

Again I stress: price does not matter, and neither does availability in India.
 
Has anyone here used the SE m600i?
 

ok, from what I can make out, it's available for Rs. 15,000 ... is that ccurate?also, i have little to no experience working on smartphones.... is there some sort of "Smart phones for dummies" website you know of? I just have many questions, such as whether I would be able to sync the calendar on the m600i with Google Calendar etc.
 
Yes, thats pretty close to the price - http://www.univercell.in/showMobile.asp?mno=260

And its a symbian OS phone - that says a lot about the range of software avaliable for it.
(just to illustrate, a certain someone happens to know that usually Symbian installers are 200 KB on average, and has 4 DVD-Rs full of software encompassing every category of software usually seen on PC - hows that for scale???? 😀 )
 
For Organizer features, try blackberry. I don't think it has handwriting rocog, but you can hook-up MS Outlook -> Google Cal -> Blackberry. If you like MS Outlook's organizer features then you might like blackberry since integration with MS Office is the area where blackberry phones are best.
 
Nah, I hate Outlook. And I don't much of a use for it especially since I am not working. What I really need the phone for is to organize my life, which as mentioned above, my palm m100 did brilliantly. Blackberries are overkill, and too expensive.
 
Yaa, if you do not use Outlook then Blackberry is not suitable.Off Topic : Try using Outlook as a organizer if you have some free time on hand... its features (Calendar + Tasks + TODO) are quite helpful.What I do for personal use is, I maintain TODO, Calendar, Budget etc on Outlook + MS Money and use Nokia's S/W to sync that daily with organizer of 6020. Nothing great, but get the job done, i.e. Beeps 3 days before due dates for CC/MTNL/Electrical bill payments etc etc.
 
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And its a symbian OS phone - that says a lot about the range of software avaliable for it.
(just to illustrate, a certain someone happens to know that usually Symbian installers are 200 KB on average, and has 4 DVD-Rs full of software encompassing every category of software usually seen on PC - hows that for scale???? 😀 )[/b]
That's very impressive! I would like to know what all software is available, just to know my options. Please point me in the right direction - is there any site you have used that you would recommend? Also is all this software available for free or is it available for 'free' if you know what I mean.
(Also note that the phone is UIQ 3.. what exactly that means I don't know - but would all these programs work on it?).

Which phone do you use these programs with?
 

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