ces's Journal: Ask Slashdot: Smartphones for AT&T Wireless

So the time has come to get a new phone. The phones I'm considering in no particular order are:

• AT&T 8525
• Palm Treo 750
• Samsung Blackjack
• Cingular 8125
• Cingular 3125
• Apple iPhone

Some features I'm looking for are: battery life, call quality, decent text messsage/email interface, way of syncing over the network with work Outlook, access to AIM IM network, decent mp3 player.

Any experiences or reccomendations anyone would care to relate?

8525/8125

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Are basically (with some slight differences) the same phone as my T-Mobile MDA. Windows Mobile 5 is the operating system, though they may have upgraded it to 6 now. This is now my main PDA in general- I'd say only about 10% of it's daily battery charge is used on phone. Primary usages are word processing, excel, video games, and media player for me, as well as of course PIM. I work in a Microsoft shop, so the ability to sync e-mail and calendar between work and home (phone recognizes both) is good. In

Two questions

[WillAffleckUW]

1. What do you NEED, WANT, and WOULD LIKE?

2. How much money do you visualize spending?

Then use that to narrow it down amongst your choices.