Yorick
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Originally posted by Madkins007
When I got my first PDA (Handspring Deluxe), I got it because I wanted to replace my electronic organizer with one that was easier to use and 'smarter', AND replace my kit with the GameBoy (with camera), Franklin Dictionary with Bookman slot and Bible card, digital camera, notepad, and so on. I carried a leather bag stuffed with gear around, and I was intrigued by the promise of doing most of it with one device- so I paid $250 for an Ice Deluxe straight from Handspring.
Now- a lot of people are in a similar place- PDA, cell phone, pager. Many of us are carrying a MP3 and digital camera as well. It sometimes feels like I am back at square one!
when I was looking into PDA's in the first place, it was so I could replace my paper planner. With my first PP I didn't like having to replace the pages every couple months, because it didn't have room for the whole year -- and one that did was too bulky to carry about -- and because of that I couldn't check on old appointments and see what things I'd done more than those couple months back, at least not without going back to the office and looking them up. The second one I had -- since the first was office property and I'd left that job -- was teeny and had the whole ryear in it, but it was a week to a two-page spread and the re wasn't much room for notes and stuff.
The Visor appealed to me mainly because of the expansion slot. (The see-thru cases were a selling point too, since I have a Mac G4 and it matched.) In addition to having years of data in one little box, plus my whole phone book, plus lots of room for notes, plus any number of reference applications, plus the possibility of adding stuff like a digital recorder and an MP3 player and a digital camera etc ... the techno geek deep in the heart of me said "Yessss!" in its best David Kaye voice.
In theory it's a great idea. In practice .. the modules have always seemed to me to be overpriced, and so I only bought a few. Over time I've lost interest in the modules. the Digital camera turned out to be disappointing for the money I paid and later I got a dedicated DC which is far superior in quality and resolution for about the same price (two years later tho, so it would have been about double the eyemod at the time I got that). I still would like a digital recorder, but with the discontinuance I don't know where to find one.
I've discovered that what I really needed from a PDA wasn't all the trappings and fancy gee-gaws and stuff. I just needed a planner that was bigger and better than my paper planner without having a larger physical size. Which really is what I have.
I do want an MP3 player (tho I lean heavily to replacing my portable CD player with an MP3-capable CD player instead of a separate MP3 device), I'm likely finally going to get a cellphone in the next month (all I need it to do is receive and transmit phone calls, but paging would be useful too), and I'm still on the hunt for one of those digital recorder modules. But in the long run I'm okay with those being separate devices instead of integrated. Integrated means less stuff to carry, but more stuff that can go on the fritz inside -- and what do you do when your phone is out of commission and it's also your PDA, MP3 player, digital camera, and movie player? Just remember you don't *have* carry all your gear with you at all times.
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11-23-2002 12:59 AM
exactly
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