Symptom of age
Jan. 22nd, 2009 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysMy old Treo PDA/Phone finally failed the other day. It was an old one – one of the very first devices to combine a phone and PDA functions. But it had many of the things that still carry forward in the fancier phones available now – big(ish) display, touch screen, full keyboard, email, web browsing and a big range of useful and frivolous downloadable applications. But not a music player nor a camera.
Not that I’ve used it as a phone for a while – the reception crapped out. So I got a cheap and seemingly indestructible Motorola to use as a mobile phone and just used the Treo as a PDA. But now it is time to combine the two needs back into one device – plus modest level camera and music player.
I see a good number of you out there in lj land have recently purchased or are coveting iPhones or equally high powered devices. But I feel like I have done the early adopter, technolust thing. Looking at what I actually need out of the device, it seems that for my personal needs, something like this modest (boring) mid-range Nokia does everything I need and has Symbian support for adding extra stuff.
But am I missing something? Is there some critical feature, some killer app, that these high end devices bring to the party other than a bigger screen? Is there some extra thing for the money that will make life better? Or is it just technolust for the new and shiny? Not that I’m criticising technolust – I regard it as a perfectly valid expression of desire. I just don’t have it in this case.
Not that I’ve used it as a phone for a while – the reception crapped out. So I got a cheap and seemingly indestructible Motorola to use as a mobile phone and just used the Treo as a PDA. But now it is time to combine the two needs back into one device – plus modest level camera and music player.
I see a good number of you out there in lj land have recently purchased or are coveting iPhones or equally high powered devices. But I feel like I have done the early adopter, technolust thing. Looking at what I actually need out of the device, it seems that for my personal needs, something like this modest (boring) mid-range Nokia does everything I need and has Symbian support for adding extra stuff.
But am I missing something? Is there some critical feature, some killer app, that these high end devices bring to the party other than a bigger screen? Is there some extra thing for the money that will make life better? Or is it just technolust for the new and shiny? Not that I’m criticising technolust – I regard it as a perfectly valid expression of desire. I just don’t have it in this case.
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Re: iPhones
Date: 2009-01-22 02:25 am (UTC)The new Palm looks nice - I did have a twinge of technolust when I saw it - having a soft spot for Palm devices and PalmOS (the Treo being PalmOS of course). But it won't be available here for a while yet.
Re: iPhones
Date: 2009-01-22 07:09 pm (UTC)how many books would this replace?
how much longer would I have to work in a job that is sucking my lifeforce before the escape vortex is complete?
Re: iPhones
Date: 2009-01-22 07:36 pm (UTC)Re: iPhones
Date: 2009-01-23 05:29 am (UTC)Re: iPhones
Date: 2009-01-23 06:33 am (UTC)Sigh.