It was a hardship, but I sacrificed all year and stuck with the old-school Treo 600, refusing to get a 650 because I knew Palm’s Treo 700w was on its way. The wait is over.
I bought a Treo Smartphone in late 2004 or early 2005 after I found myself staring at a former day-job colleague’s gadget while sitting in another mind-numbingly boring and waste-of-time staff meeting. The Palm-based Treo had a smaller screen and stylus than my company-issued, Windows-based iPAQ (I hadn’t used Palm OS since my really old-school baby Palm Pilot days.), but it was a cell phone, organizer, and web browser in one device.
With one of those, I thought while listening to a colleague repeat the same thing over and over again for the past 15 minutes, I could ditch my cell phone and PDA, and do all I needed to do with just one gadget. Tantalizing.
It’s difficult to blog on my tiny Treo, but I can easily check and approve comments on the blog and monitor what’s going on around here when I’m away from the desktop or laptop.
A few weeks after I bought the Treo 600, quite satisfied with it, the 650 came out at the same price I paid for the 600. Figures. The camera lens and keyboard had been improved, I read. Nice improvements, but not enough to upgrade, so I hung on to the 600. Then the battery died. Well, I discovered that I’d have to buy an external battery because you couldn’t open the 600 to replace the battery. Long story short, my cool little Treo 600 now has a bulky black appendage that makes it look like a hunchback. Still, it wasn’t hideous enough to justify buying a 650.
When I learned that Palm was coming out with a new, Windows-based Treo Smartphone, I decided to wait patiently for it, and now it’s here!
No politics today. Sorry.
Reviews, reviews! What is your PDA of choice, why do you like it, and what can you do with it?
Update (1/6): I need a PDA version of this site. It doesn’t load properly on a tiny screen because there’s too much stuff on this blog. Is there a simple way to create a PDA version? WordPress plugin, perhaps?
