It’s also happy to work with several accounts and I can even choose to sync Calender, Address Book or email on each account – in this area, it does exactly what I want.

Staying with Google, it also has a chat client for the google talk, this is slightly less flexible, being linked to your first email account, but still working well out of the box with no need for an extra app to be installed.

As my phone is on the Three Network, it also has a Skype app, that gives access to Three’s Free Skype calling, this used the internet to set up the calls, but the calls themselves are made over the regular mobile channels – and after hours and hours of talking to people on skype using the Galaxy Portal, I’d keep the phone just for that.

Three do limit the Skype use to calls between other Skype users, so none of the Skype to Landline or Landline to Skype services will work, but you can’t blame them for protecting their core business.

Things I don’t Like so much, include…

Not Having a Keyboard, I’m getting used to the onscreen keyboard, but it still isn’t accurate enough for me, I still have a Nokia E63 on another account, for texting, and couldn’t think of sending too many texts or typing emails using the on screen keys. When used horizontally,  things are much better, but I still have a problem of accidentally touching the screen between keys – probably a a because I’m still using an E63 with its keyboard for some things. My next Android Phone is definitely going to have a keyboard.

Not Having a visible Alert – I’ve been spoiled by the flashing keyboard led on the Nokia E63! A glance at that phone will tell me if I’ve missed a call, or a text/email has arrived. Not this phone, if i miss an Audible Alert, I’m not going to know about it until I’ve woken the screen up to check.

I’m Getting used to the shorter battery life (compared to the Nokia E63), and this phone seems better than most – with my use, lots of email checking and a few calls each day, I can often go a couple of days without recharging.

Overall, given that my main uses for the device are phone, email, text and skype calling, it scores big on the skype and email handling, but i really miss a keyboard.

After upgrading the RAM to 512Mb, I tried to get several versions of linux – including the latest Ubuntu – to install, each time, the X server failed to run and once booted, the Imac refused to access the built in cdrom leaving me to continue the install from an external usb drive.

Then I tried a debian iso from http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r5/powerpc/iso-cd/, I used :- http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r5/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-40r5-powerpc-xfce-CD-1.iso

Hopefully, the xfce environment will suit the lower power of the old G3 platform.

As the installer ran, it recognised and continued to use the internal cdrom – it also saw the firewire as a possible network – full marks!!

Since then, I’ve mostly been using it as a spare terminal to access the openvz server – with both ssh and vnc clients.  its quite up to the task although in terms of speed, even the eeepc beats it!

I also have the pulseaudio package on it – allowing it to become the sound output for any linux system – virtual or physical – that also runs the pulse audio system.

Its happy to play mp3 files stored locally on its hard drive using Rhythmbox.

It boots quite quickly, so I keep it to one side of the desk for those times when I need an extra terminal.