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PDA, RIP
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| Oct 16th 2003
Posted on 10/20/2003 6:30:13 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner
They cost too much for what they do, but they are cute toys.
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posted on
10/20/2003 6:33:32 AM PDT
by
madison10
To: stainlessbanner
PDAs of the traditional type, which do not double as phones, are condemned to remain a tiny niche. A niche for those of us who do not want our private files accessible by others via "connectivity." Some things should be kept separate.
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posted on
10/20/2003 6:34:08 AM PDT
by
Young Rhino
(Do the French know the meaning of the words soap, water, and deodorant?)
To: stainlessbanner
Gee...I'm sitting in a boring Monday morning staff meeting, writing this post on my wireless PDA. I love this thing. Just call me a bronze age dinosaur.
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posted on
10/20/2003 6:39:29 AM PDT
by
meowmeow
(Freepin' wireless, baby!)
To: stainlessbanner
Smart phones can also take and transmit photos, which PDAs can't.
To: stainlessbanner
To: stainlessbanner
I tossed my Cassiopia PDA a year ago, and went back to a daytimer. With a written calendar, I don't have to worry when I drop it, I don't have to take time to boot it up, I don't lose data when my batteries run dry, I don't have to worry about scratching the screen, I don't have to worry about accidental erasures, I don't have to learn a new way of writing, and I don't have to worry about connectivity problems with my ports.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
my pda has a camera, my pda has a chip I can put hours of music, my pda hooks up to my car stereo.
This is just a puff piece. The combination of the two devices is old news. It is inevitable that the two would combine. Whatever marketing calls them, they a useful ways to deal with data.
To: meowmeow
Woohoo! Anyone fall asleep yet at the dreaded "Monday morning staff meeting"? Hehehe!! Anything exciting going on?? Hehehe!
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posted on
10/20/2003 6:48:54 AM PDT
by
MoJo2001
(God Bless Our Troops and Allies!!)
To: stainlessbanner
"In other words, the PDA is dead "
After 4 years my Palm Vx finally quit holding a charge. I replaced it with a Hi-Res color CLIE'.
When this one dies, I'll get another. In other words the PDA is not dead.
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posted on
10/20/2003 6:50:27 AM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
(No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody got a peanut.....)
To: Chancellor Palpatine
Hear hear. I still take notes on a legal pad - I've lost more pdas than I care to admit. (original sharp zaurus user)
To: meowmeow
writing this post on my wireless PDA....And the boss thinks your taking meeting notes!
To: Chancellor Palpatine
Cassiopia used natural language for input.
I still use mine.
It should be noted that symbian, major comentator here, tried the pda market but was drowned out.
I actual have one of his phones, the symbian system is waaaay too limiting.
Of course microsoft teamed with motorola (who licenses to nokia) for a reason.
To: longtermmemmory
In the end, mine was clunky. The contacts on the drop in had to be jiggled every time, and finally, no matter how many times I tried reinstalling CE services, this computer stopped recognition of the serial port while the thing was plugged in.
Bleah - no more for me.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
That's not true.
To: Chancellor Palpatine
my brick is still going, but casio did get out of the pda market. A constant problem with casio, bad support for their products.
To: Chancellor Palpatine
With a written calendar, I don't have to worry when I drop it, I don't have to take time to boot it up, I don't lose data when my batteries run dry, I don't have to worry about scratching the screen, I don't have to worry about accidental erasures, I don't have to learn a new way of writing, and I don't have to worry about connectivity problems with my ports. Just hope you don't misplace your daytimer or someone steals it having your private information in plain view without password protection. You can't exactly buy a new daytimer and sync it then continue where you had left off. Going back to paper is tempting for me too, but it has its drawbacks as well.
To: stainlessbanner
I liked the Sharp Wizards with keyboards. Since mine died, I have had trouble finding a new one, except on EBay, where the collectors seem to be grabbing them up.
To: disclaimer
I double up the info. If I have an entry in the daytime, I put it into Outlook as well. And I keep no credit card, banking or critical personal stuff in the daytimer.
Also, I can say I haven't lost any calendar over the past 15 years.
To: stainlessbanner
I am too disorganized to use an electronic organizer!
Oh, I bought one: a neat Handspring monochrome thin thing. It never leaves its cradle.
My being disorganized is a good thing: if I ever got my act together, I'd take over the world.
--Boris
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posted on
10/20/2003 7:13:48 AM PDT
by
boris
(The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)
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