What cell phones brands are best for Mac users?

ok great, thanks for the response! so the motorola E815 for Verizon is my best bet on a mac, seeing as how it natively supports isync. I'm going to give it a try and I will let you know how it works out for me.

Michael Lafferty, it is SPP (Serial Port profile) and not SAP (SIM Access profile).

You are, of course, correct. Proving that I should proof read my messages more thoroughly!

As Alexander points out, it is the SPP [Serial Port Profile] that along with the others mentioned, which provides the basis for such services as dial up networking. The SAP [SIM Access Profile] offers a means for devices such as car phones with built in GSM transceivers to connect to a SIM card in a Bluetooth enabled phone.

GAP, SAP, SPP… it's easy to get confused. For anyone interested in a reference to basic Bluetooth profiles, here is one:

http://bluetooth.com/bluetooth/learn/works/profiles_overview.htm

hello everybody.... im from El Salvador and i just got the motorola PEBL. i have a problem conecting my phone with my imac G5 by bluetooh... i cant update my calendar, or send sms messages typing on the computer and sendig trougth my cell phone...
the computer it does recognize the cell phone, i can send pictures and videos from my phone to my mac, but not the other way around ....i can not do anything else... can anyone please help me with this...

I'm a Discussion virgin here, but desperation forces my hand...

My phone took a dive into the Saco river and I need a new one. Seems like a great opportunity to upgrade to a smartphone since I've been pining for synced calendar, contacts, tasks for years.

My needs:
- A phone that can work in rural AZ as well as Boston/DC (Verizon has been adequate to date)
- PDA functionality that can synch with my Windows PC at work and my Mac at home (calendar, tasks, contacts)

I've been looking at the Q since I can get an upgrade with Verizon for $200 (seems cheap). I'm worried about synch problems though...

You are spot-on to first select a wireless carrier, then examine what they have to offer in terms of smartphones and mobile handsets.

Your approach to dual platform synchronization, however, is flawed and doomed to failure. It wouldn't matter if both platforms were PCs or both were Macintoshes: synchronization software is just not intended to support single devices as 'data carriers' between multiple Macintoshes. A far better approach would be to use…

• Outlook on your PC
• the latest version of Entourage 2004 on your Macintosh
• an Exchange Server to arbitrate data transfers between these applications, and
• the Sync Services framework to handle synchronization data between Entourage, the Address Book and iCal

If you want to synchronize to the Macintosh platform, you will need to add the Missing Sync for Windows Mobile [pre-release alpha 2.5a14 currently] to the mix. This application is Sync Services compliant, and will handle the synchronization of your Windows Mobile 5-based Motorola Q with the truth database, and therefore the Address Book, iCal and Entourage.

Or, you can synchronize with Outlook using a Windows Mobile device and your data will migrate through the Exchange Server to Entourage, and on to the Address Book, iCal, and iPod through iTunes, and other Macintoshes using either .Mac Sync or MySync. Just don't try to synchronize your Palm device with both environments, or you will put your data at serious risk across the entire synchronization pool.

You can accomplish the same thing using a Palm OS based smartphone from Verizon—either the Palm Treo 650 or the Palm 700p [using either iSync or the Missing Sync for Palm OS]—or use the Palm OS-based Palm 700w with the Missing Sync for Windows Mobile as an alternative to the Motorola Q. That software will also support the Verizon Wireless VX6700, and presently supports the Samsung smartphone they offer.

The pre-release software for Windows Mobile 5 devices has limited utility, but you can read more about it here:

http://www.markspace.com/testing/MSWM25_alpha.html