Use your cell phone as a PDA without the PDA price

I used to use a Palm Pilot (a long time ago) as my PDA and I really liked it.  But I really didn’t want to carry a PDA and a cell phone.  I’ve always wanted to be able to use my cell phone’s calendar applicaiton to keep track of my appointments, but I didn’t want to go the Blackberry route and since I use Thunderbird for my home email my options were limited.  At least they were until I found SyncCell.  SynCell works great with my Verizon LG ENV3 and Thunderbird 2.  I am using the Lightning 0.9 extension to add calendaring functions to Thunderbird and this combination is perfect for me.  I can add my appointments on my PC or on my phone and SyncCell keeps them synchronized for me with just the click of a button.  I just connect my phone to the PC with the USB cable, click on the One Sync shortcut in the quick launch bar and away it goes.  I had tried to do this previously with my Razor and Motorola Phone Tools (MPT), but that never worked out since MPT didn’t support Thunderbird.  I don’t have all the bells and whistles of a full PDA or a Blackberry, but that works for me since I don’t really need all those things and I didn’t want to have the platform dictate which email system I had to use.  Check SyncCell out it might work for you as well.

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