I currently own two Samsung i330 (Palm-based) smartphones — one for me, one for my spouse — and while they’ve served adequately, I swear I will never buy another Palm-based product again. Ever. Not unless they improve drastically. (Thus, the Treo line is out of the question.)
The next phones we will be getting will be the HP iPaq h6315 smartphones. PocketPC-based, with GSM/GPRS, 802.11b Wi-Fi and Bluetooth all *built in*. Yes.
And, regarding the Apple iSync requirement, don’t cripple yourself just because Apple’s software sucks. For $30 (yes, it’s not free — boo hoo), you can get The Missing Sync for Pocket PC:
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Network-Admin/The-Missing-Sync-for-Pocket-PC.shtml
Yes. You WILL buy a h315. The first one I’d ever seen was Carl Garland’s — if he still has it, walk over to his cube and ask to check it out. You will have a gadgetgasm. It’s the shizznizzle.
You can thank me once you’ve bought one.
Now if only I could come up with the ~$1K it’ll cost for me to buy the two for my own use. Grr …