Haven’t found anything yet that would make it as simple on a crackberry.

And I’m always always always looking for convenience, portability, and connectivity options. Oh, and affordability.

I work with people with disabilities, and we don’t just recommend technology that everyone else has because it’s “cool.” We spend time figuring out what that person needs and doesn’t need, and then finding the right combo of stuff for them, regardless of whether it is the latest greatest stuff or not.

Choose the devices you need to be productive. If that’s a notebook, then so be it. If that’s an iPhone, go for it. Just don’t use a device because you see everyone else using them.

That is a statement of web designers who utilize CSS instead of older methods of table-based website design, and its something that I’ve found that fits the mobile paradigm as well.

When you get out of the idea that you need to see the page edges to write, and then start to write content for content and allow the presentation to be handled outside of that, then it is a lot easier to write on a mobile.

If you are squinting to write text on your mobile, change the way you write. For example, I use a Nokia N800 Internet Tablet and iGo Bluetooth keyboard. The keyboard sits about an arm’s length from me while the tablet is 1/3 the distance from me in between my arms. I don’t need to see the keys since I type a lot and “know where they are.” Also, I make it a point to keep the text and color/contrast set so that I don’t squint. No, its not a laptop, I adjusted for the hardware and now my arms and wrists suffer less.

It is very hard to be a web worker and be tied to models sold on carrier decks. Most of these models are sold with so many other appendages that it is not inexpensive to go mobile. I would recommend using another mobile, GSM based if possible, and looking into the mobiles that may have a better feature set for more freedom when web working.

I am a writer, consultant, and am learning project mangement/business analyitics. I work via an Internet Tablet and mobile phone for more than half of my working day, and then a laptop for the rest of that time. Its hard, but do able. It means you have to change the way you work though; and most don’t want to do that.

So I guess if I was to do sysadmin web work, like managing cloud computing instances, the ultimate would be a small netbook with 3G and awesome battery life. Used it to manage linux/unix boxes via ssh command line. Then email, messenger, skype for comms and something like paypal for taking payment. Mobile phone would probably still be basic if at all.