Practical Cell Phones to Complement Mac OS X?

Silas asks: "It's about time to trade up my Samsung A500 (a robust flip-phone that has served me well) to a new cell phone, and I'm looking for recommendations. I'd like something pretty no-nonsense that does the basics very well (sound quality, intuitive button placement and UI, compact physical design -- no camera, and no annoying ringtones) but I'm also ready to start connecting my phone to other parts of my life. In particular, I'd like to find something compatible with iSync on Mac OS X Tiger for addressbook and calendar stuff, and I wouldn't mind trying out the bluetooth madness for proximity login/keychain auth, etc. I've also had the ability to connect my Powerbook to the net through the phone with Sprint PCS's Vision program and a USB cable from The Shack, and preserving that capability would be nice, but is less important in a world of hotspots, and I'm fine with switching carriers. Any help is much appreciated, even if it's just brand/category generalizations."

Comments

Quick and easy

[Anonymous Coward]

no annoying ringtones

You can stop your search now. You have asked the impossible.

Start with phones listed as supported by Clicker

[Leknor]

I'd start with the supported feature list of Salling Clicker: http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Cli cker/

You don't have to use Salling Clicker, there are alternatives, but I'm not familiar with their web sites.

Did you look at Apple's page?

[pauljlucas]

Here.

iSync Supported Phones

[mr_rattles]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/devices .html

List of phones "officially" supported by iSync, though there's a bunch more you can get working by hacking the MetaClasses.plist property file in iSync.app.