Migrating away from Palm desktop

I feel the time has come to turn away from my old Palm handheld. Next
stop will be a good smart phone. However I don't think I'll ever be
able to bring myself to use Outlook. it is horrifically complex and
slow. To put it another way: I hate it. I am basically more than happy
with my Palm Desktop, but I want to change away from separate phone
and organiser to one smartphone. I don't think the new Palm Cleo is up
to it. I suppose it'll come down to a Nokia or a Samsung. Shouldn't
be difficult changing my calendar to use the Google Calendar, but I
fear the Google Contacts will groan under the weight of more than 2000
contacts. I have once tried importing, but found it awfully slow. So
the question is: what's the best way to go?

MartinC wrote:[color=blue]
> I feel the time has come to turn away from my old Palm handheld. Next
> stop will be a good smart phone. However I don't think I'll ever be
> able to bring myself to use Outlook. it is horrifically complex and
> slow. To put it another way: I hate it. I am basically more than happy
> with my Palm Desktop, but I want to change away from separate phone
> and organiser to one smartphone. I don't think the new Palm Cleo is up
> to it. I suppose it'll come down to a Nokia or a Samsung. Shouldn't
> be difficult changing my calendar to use the Google Calendar, but I
> fear the Google Contacts will groan under the weight of more than 2000
> contacts. I have once tried importing, but found it awfully slow. So
> the question is: what's the best way to go?
>
>[/color]
I don't know what Browser and email your are using but I have been using
Firefox/Thunderbird and been very happy with it. Thunderbird has a
contact program, however I do not know the upper limit.

In Thunderbird there is an extension that is easily added that is called
Lightning. It is a colander/task program quite similar to the Palm
desktop. It is my understanding that Lightning will be part of
Thunderbird 3.0 and not an extension.

I have been using Lightning/Thunderbird for about 8 months and have been
quite happy with it. I have about 600 names in my contact list and have
seen no signs of trouble.

On Nov 10, 5:49*pm, Keith nuttle <keith_nut...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> I don't know what Browser and email your are using but I have been using
> Firefox/Thunderbird and been very happy with it. *Thunderbird has a
> contact program, however I do not know the upper limit.[/color]

FF, TB and Chrome...
[color=blue]
> In Thunderbird there is an extension that is easily added that is called
> Lightning. *It is a colander/task program quite similar to the Palm
> desktop. *It is my understanding that Lightning will be part of
> Thunderbird 3.0 and not an extension.[/color]

But how do I get it on my phone?

Martin