I've long admired you for your geek factor. You had the most amazing of toys. When you came over back when Cooner and I were still in Burbank (dating this event to at least four years ago, and you had that bulky wireless phone, I was skeptical, until you flipped it open to reveal a full keyboard. I think I had to pick up my jaw after that. And the voice-navigation system in your van? pretty darn neat!
And I can understand about not liking Graffiti. When I'm trying to compose thoughts I don't wanna be distracted by letters coming out askew. After fifteen years of online chats and email and such, I've gotten used to brain-to-keyboard flow. I also don't carry my Palm with me. I had a Handspring Visor a year ago, till I dropped it while fumbling with stuff after going thru an airport security checkpoint, shattering the screen, and balking at the $85 charge to fix it (since the Visor price came down enough that it was just a little bit more to get a new one... and Croc ended up giving me his old Palm in exchange for ... I forget what). I used to carry a tote bag with me and toss my old datebook in there, but the Palm is bigger. And whereas the date book could slip in my back pocket and I wouldn't have to worry about breaking it by sitting on it, forget it with a palm.
I'd been hesitant to get a new PDA because Flint suggested a year ago that "soon the PDA and phone would merge". I'm waiting for the price to come down s'more. Oh, and I hate that the original palms aren't rechargable. That would make sense -- dock it in the cradle, recharge the batteries. In 1998 when I worked at the Universal Studios IT department, I must've ordered Palms for the whole project staff, as well as continually stocking up on batteries. Yay.
I'm stuck with my Cingular service and Nokia 5190 under contract till next month. Even Cingular acknowleges that the 5190 is a piece of crap, and poor Croc also has one (with an older firmware that won't allow him to add custom ring tones -- my phone now plays "Hard day's night" -- 'cuz I've been working like a dog!), but at least he's no longer bound by his Cingular contract. Service has been awful, sometimes the phones won't even ring. It's gotten such that Croc doesn't even carry his phone anymore. I've checked with some friends, who seem to mostly be satisfied with Verizon's service, so I might go that way. Do you have any suggestions in this wireless tug-of-war? I'm not really looking for something too crazy, though the phone/PDA combo does sound neat.
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Date: 2002-06-05 07:57 am (UTC)And I can understand about not liking Graffiti. When I'm trying to compose thoughts I don't wanna be distracted by letters coming out askew. After fifteen years of online chats and email and such, I've gotten used to brain-to-keyboard flow. I also don't carry my Palm with me. I had a Handspring Visor a year ago, till I dropped it while fumbling with stuff after going thru an airport security checkpoint, shattering the screen, and balking at the $85 charge to fix it (since the Visor price came down enough that it was just a little bit more to get a new one... and Croc ended up giving me his old Palm in exchange for ... I forget what). I used to carry a tote bag with me and toss my old datebook in there, but the Palm is bigger. And whereas the date book could slip in my back pocket and I wouldn't have to worry about breaking it by sitting on it, forget it with a palm.
I'd been hesitant to get a new PDA because Flint suggested a year ago that "soon the PDA and phone would merge". I'm waiting for the price to come down s'more. Oh, and I hate that the original palms aren't rechargable. That would make sense -- dock it in the cradle, recharge the batteries. In 1998 when I worked at the Universal Studios IT department, I must've ordered Palms for the whole project staff, as well as continually stocking up on batteries. Yay.
I'm stuck with my Cingular service and Nokia 5190 under contract till next month. Even Cingular acknowleges that the 5190 is a piece of crap, and poor Croc also has one (with an older firmware that won't allow him to add custom ring tones -- my phone now plays "Hard day's night" -- 'cuz I've been working like a dog!), but at least he's no longer bound by his Cingular contract. Service has been awful, sometimes the phones won't even ring. It's gotten such that Croc doesn't even carry his phone anymore. I've checked with some friends, who seem to mostly be satisfied with Verizon's service, so I might go that way. Do you have any suggestions in this wireless tug-of-war? I'm not really looking for something too crazy, though the phone/PDA combo does sound neat.