On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Christian Molstrom wrote:
> Who said Curt was being sarcastic?
As everyone familiar with me or my posts knows, I am never anything
but sincere.
> I suppose if you have conquered the thumb-dexerity learning curve,
> then tossing your pen is no big deal, provided the phone's apps really
> offer the same flexibility as do PDAs. Or people are willing to trade
> the convenience of information input and retrieval for the convenience
> and cost-saving of carrying only one device.
I've mentioned in the past on this list that for some time I gave up my
Palm and started using my keitai exclusively for addresses and scheduling,
despite having far fewer capabilities. I eventually went back to using a
Palm, because there are other portable applications that I need as well,
but I still sometimes leave my Palm behind and take just my keitai out
with me.
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Michael Turner wrote:
> However, if Alsop is right -- and he guesses pretty well -- having something
> like a blackberry keyboard will make a phone acceptably useable for e-mail,
> to Americans, without making it unacceptably bulky as a phone.
Well, part of this may be due to the much higher American tolerance for
clunky, heavy phones. 80 g is about my limit for a keitai no matter what
the functionality (my current one is 60 g), because otherwise I can't
"travel light" when I want to.
> If palmtop+keitai (separate or melded) were the ticket, the wave would
> already have swept over Gadget Country, don't you think? This would have
> been the place to do it, after all.
Well, one of the factors working against this, too, could be that once
you go with one or the other, you've made a commitment that it's work
to back out of. I've still not got around to getting all of the numbers
out of my phone and into my Palm.
Having proper connectivity, synchronization and caching would be the
ideal state. I ought to be able to use and update my one database of
phone numbers, appointments, to-do items, notes and whatnot, from my PC,
my Palm or my phone, or even remotely via the web. Then I can decide,
every time I leave the house, what functionality/ease-of-use/weight
tradeoff I want to make.
Maybe one day people will come up with some sort of standards for
these things.
cjs
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Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC
Received on Thu Jan 10 07:06:32 2002