Re: suggestions of Android smartphones

[Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>]

Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:07:32 -0300, Daniel Martins <danielemc@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>  --- resending with a proper title ---
>> 
>> Matthew,
>> 
>> Just a suggestion for newbies.
>> 
>> Could you generate a video of MobileOrg Android similar to those of
>> the MobileOrg Iphone.
>> 
>> I am still open to suggestions of Android smartphones.
>> 
>> If I need to access a remote ssh account and open Emacs, the available
>> keyborards are OK?
>> 
>> Daniel
>
> I have the same questions!  My current mobile phone contract expires
> in 3 months and I'm looking at upgrading to an Android phone.  The
> current best deal I have found is for the Samsung Galaxy Portal, aka
> the i5700.  [1] I'm looking at upgrading to replace my Nokia internet
> tablet (n810) and non-smart phone with one unit.  The nokia does a
> really nice job of running emacs and org-mode, mind you.
>
> I'm particularly interested in knowing how the different handsets
> approach the keying in of keys like C-x, M-x, TAB, et al.
>
> Thanks,
> eric


+1 on this. I had almost decided on the Motorola Milestone (Droid) but
would love to hear others experiences. Using org-mode in a term emacs is
not ideal because a lot of shift/arrow/fn chords dont work in the terminals
I tried (xterm, urxvt etc) and so doubt they will on a mobile device
either : so my hard core usage of only emacs -nw inside urxvt and tmux
soon dwindled and I'm back to using emacs in X. The only problem I now
have is not being to find a way to use ONE x frame with emacsclient
being able to create it if its not already done (I bet I've missed
something obvious but emacsclient -c always creates a new frame and
emacsclient wont create it if its not already there on my emacs).