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...and since Android is from Google, it has a native interface with all of Google's products.

Dude, how tall IS she?

About 50 feet. Why?

Murph, perhaps my terminology was inexact. I just meant that I want to get newer phones, and that I want to keep Verizon for now.

And I don't want to pay for a data plan. I don't need or want to use my phone to browse the web, so I'm not sure that the Google thing is helpful. I want to sync with Outlook at the desktop level. Can I sync to Google via Android on the desktop level?

I'm looking at the Samsung Omnia (or Omnia II due out soon) or HTC Touch Pro (currently out of stock, naturally).

Dude. Your wife is hot!

Am I helping here?

The problem you will have is that you can't get most smartphones w/o a data plan. I can't recall any that you can, although it may be possible to forego a blackberry plan (BIS).

Chances are not. Android would sync with Google Calender on the Internet, and then Outlook would also contact Google Calender and sync there.

As stated above, most cell providers want you to get a data plan with your smart phone. You can usually get around that, except with the iPhone, part of that contract with AT&T is you must carry the unlimited data package. It's not that bad, I carry unlimited data for my Palm Treo. The data rates are so high for overages, that I wouldn't want to risk anything lower. Of course I'm always hitting Google Maps, and other various sites from my phone.

IIRC, most Android phones have Wifi. So you could use that rather than rely on a USB connection.

Verizon lets me have a Palm Centro without a data plan. Unless things have changed, the only phone they REQUIRE a data plan for is the Crackberry.

I think any phone running the mobile version of Windows would sync up fine. I had a Samsung Blackjack II that synced up with no problems as does my Blackberry Bold.

Thanks, BigHonu.

Okay, I was Wrong. I saw the Verizon rep today, and ANY new smartphone now requires a data plan. I haven't heard such colorful language from my wife since before I got the MX-700 remote.

And I think we're stuck on Verizon for a while.

So, perhaps I'll look for a used Centro. Apparently, they'll let you slide on the data plan if you have a phone manufactured before about a year ago.

Bastards.