[kwlug disc.] 'Blackberries make you stupid!'

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 8:42 pm, Unsolicited wrote:
> I have long hated the idea of carrying a cell. Hated even more the
> idea of carrying two things. So I get a LifeDrive. Then a cell. Go figure.

That's exactly how it happened with me... Palm then Cell, then Palm+Cell and 
Cell (Treo and TX).

> I've come to the conclusion, of the devices together: It's a portable
> reference tool, not an input tool, and a pager. Just not all 'pages'
> come in voice. It's for the people I care about to be able to get me.
> Not the other way around. So, call volume out, and particularly data
> volume out, are very low. The trick was to find a provider needing no
> minimum on either.

That's almost exactly how I use these things as well.  Palm had it right from 
the beginning, but they've screwed up practically everything they had going 
for them that it's sad to say that my next device will likely not be Palm.

> But sure is nice to order pizza after shopping, and by the time I've
> driven there, it's ready.

:-)  See, technology *is* useful.  I have always driven my family crazy how I 
will let the damn phone ring if I'm relaxing or eating or having a 
conversation already instead of getting up to answer it.  Technology's there 
to serve *me*, dammit, not the other way around!

If I could figure it out I would have the phone determine whether I'm willing 
to answer it or not and simply not ring if I'm not going to answer it anyway.

-A.