The last PDA I'll buy
Hi, folks,
With all apologies to Jeff and Josh, and the group, I'm sorry I haven't posted at all. I've become quite busy in lab as I push to finish my PhD. And my wife and I have been preparing for our firstborn.
However, all this "living" has at last weaned me away from gadgetry for the sake of gadgetry. I'm sure you all know what that entails; lusting, pawing, drooling over the latest and greatest. Once obtained, we spend more time fussing over features and screens to get it =just so.= And so on.
All I mean is that I'm using my gadgets as they fit into my life. I'm besotted with the Zod1. It is the perfect reading machine. I know I've said in the past the only thing I care about is pixel resolution. The Toshiba 800 and the new VGA PPCs are still out there, but it just doesn't matter to me anymore. Mostly, it's a price issue. Most of you know that as gadget fiends, we are quite willing to bleed ourselves white to buy the latest and greatest. But I realized I've turned into gagdet mortal when I became absolutely repulsed and disgusted by the high prices. I've said before that, perhaps the VGA screen is worth $400 (meaning the Dell x50v.) No more. That's way too much for a PDA. That's ultimately why I'm so happy with the Zod1 as a PDA; the half-VGA screen is actually a functional compromise for me with the feature/price ratio. It's punchy.
Realistically, though, I've at last realized that all I want a PDA to do is to let me read and write. Maybe some arithmetic (I recommend Power48 at http://www.mobilevoodoo.com/power48.htm. You can download ROMs of the HP48 series of graphing calculators for Power48 to emulate.) But that's it. Once I got past the whole gee-whiz features to actual usage ratio (I like the word "ratio", don't I?), I spat into my palm (note the small-case "p"), slapped my forehead, and made a pact with myself never again will I be fooled into thinking that PDAs are really all that different from one another, and that they are actually better than what I have now. Here's another thing I've noticed: there's no difference between PalmOS and Windows Mobile. I'll leave this statement alone for now.
I have a few other thoughts on mobile computing usage, and I promise I'll develop this theme in a few more posts (that will come sooner rather than later!)
With all apologies to Jeff and Josh, and the group, I'm sorry I haven't posted at all. I've become quite busy in lab as I push to finish my PhD. And my wife and I have been preparing for our firstborn.
However, all this "living" has at last weaned me away from gadgetry for the sake of gadgetry. I'm sure you all know what that entails; lusting, pawing, drooling over the latest and greatest. Once obtained, we spend more time fussing over features and screens to get it =just so.= And so on.
All I mean is that I'm using my gadgets as they fit into my life. I'm besotted with the Zod1. It is the perfect reading machine. I know I've said in the past the only thing I care about is pixel resolution. The Toshiba 800 and the new VGA PPCs are still out there, but it just doesn't matter to me anymore. Mostly, it's a price issue. Most of you know that as gadget fiends, we are quite willing to bleed ourselves white to buy the latest and greatest. But I realized I've turned into gagdet mortal when I became absolutely repulsed and disgusted by the high prices. I've said before that, perhaps the VGA screen is worth $400 (meaning the Dell x50v.) No more. That's way too much for a PDA. That's ultimately why I'm so happy with the Zod1 as a PDA; the half-VGA screen is actually a functional compromise for me with the feature/price ratio. It's punchy.
Realistically, though, I've at last realized that all I want a PDA to do is to let me read and write. Maybe some arithmetic (I recommend Power48 at http://www.mobilevoodoo.com/power48.htm. You can download ROMs of the HP48 series of graphing calculators for Power48 to emulate.) But that's it. Once I got past the whole gee-whiz features to actual usage ratio (I like the word "ratio", don't I?), I spat into my palm (note the small-case "p"), slapped my forehead, and made a pact with myself never again will I be fooled into thinking that PDAs are really all that different from one another, and that they are actually better than what I have now. Here's another thing I've noticed: there's no difference between PalmOS and Windows Mobile. I'll leave this statement alone for now.
I have a few other thoughts on mobile computing usage, and I promise I'll develop this theme in a few more posts (that will come sooner rather than later!)
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