Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Smartphone Thoughts Managing Editor Admits Defeat and Buys Pocket PC
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 02:35 PM
This is an interesting column from Robert Levy, the Managing Editor at Smartphone Thoughts, about how he needed to go back to using a Pocket PC. I know this will generate some interesting comments, so let's hear what you think!
"Ok – it’s time for me to come clean. There is a personal battle that I have been fighting over the last several months and last week that battle was lost. It was my belief that life would be easier if I only carried around a single device. Since getting my first Smartphone, I pushed myself to do this and for the first couple of months it brought about a great feeling of freedom. I could entertain myself, stay on top of my email and the news, plus keep in touch with people wherever I went with just one gadget that I could easily operate with one hand. Everything I ever needed to read while on the road was never more than a few taps of the thumb away. But then I saw the 4350 iPAQ Pocket PC from Hewlett Packard and everything changed. For those that don’t know, the 4350 is a thin device with 64 MB of RAM, a 400 MHz XScale processor, the latest Pocket PC operating system, built in 802.11, built in Bluetooth, and a built in QWERTY keyboard..."
"Ok – it’s time for me to come clean. There is a personal battle that I have been fighting over the last several months and last week that battle was lost. It was my belief that life would be easier if I only carried around a single device. Since getting my first Smartphone, I pushed myself to do this and for the first couple of months it brought about a great feeling of freedom. I could entertain myself, stay on top of my email and the news, plus keep in touch with people wherever I went with just one gadget that I could easily operate with one hand. Everything I ever needed to read while on the road was never more than a few taps of the thumb away. But then I saw the 4350 iPAQ Pocket PC from Hewlett Packard and everything changed. For those that don’t know, the 4350 is a thin device with 64 MB of RAM, a 400 MHz XScale processor, the latest Pocket PC operating system, built in 802.11, built in Bluetooth, and a built in QWERTY keyboard..."
