[plug] PDA's

[Jonathan Young]

All the reasons we were expecting.  My point was that PLUG and similar 
groups of computer people are the only areas you can get away with a 
*seeming* contradiction of "it rocks - wanna buy it?" without being 
forced to explain all that - which is what I somehow managed to do 
anyway!  :-P

All extremely logical and understandable reasons, naturally, and I doubt 
anyone expected otherwise.

Mine was more of a comment in general on the impression you need to make 
to people who don't get the technology cycle and how fast it moves.


Senectus . wrote:

>On 11/30/05, Jonathan Young <jonathan at pcphix.com> wrote:
>  
>
>> Senectus . wrote:
>> I have an XDA2 (smart phone, like a mobile phone crammed into an
>>iPaq), that will do most of what your after.. Not sure about mac
>>integration but getting it to sync with Linux is an interesting bit of
>>fun. (ie not for the feint of heart)
>>
>>Incidentally I'm trying to sell it at the moment (along with a brand
>>new never installed car hands free/docking kit) if anyone is
>>interested..
>>
>> Only from one computer geek to another could you get away with the
>>contradiction that we so often see when buying or selling second hand
>>computer gear...
>>
>> "It's really great.... but it's hardly been used!"
>>
>> "I can highly recommend this one..... buy the way, I'm selling mine!"
>>
>> "It also has a really great hands free kit... I've never installed it."
>>
>> No offence / harm intended, Senectus, as I have found myself saying these
>>kind of things on more than one occasion.
>>
>> With most people who are buying second hand electronics (and cars), unless
>>you are leaving the country / getting married / selling regretfully / have
>>just bought the latest model that is out of their price range, they would
>>assume that if you don't want it it's no good to them! ;)
>>
>> When it comes to the rapidly changing market of handheld technology it is
>>not hard to understand that you may be ready for the next model before
>>you've fully used the existing one - that's computing and the continuous
>>upgrade path we take.
>>    
>>
>
>Although this is getting off topic and we all know how grumpy I get at that :-P
>I'm not actually saying any of the above..
>I use it every day and constantly (in fact the email I sent about
>bringing the ubuntu CD's in was done from it while on the bus).
>The car kit I bought with the intention to install in my 180sx only to
>find that it wouldn't fit on any of the dashboard as they are not
>large cars.. and I refuse to drill holes in my new Prius dashboard
>yet.. :-P
>It's been perfectly reliable and is still in perfect working order,
>and the only reason it wish to sell it is because I'm a bit of a toy
>geek and like (and with a bit of fudging can afford) the newer gear.
>Plus the Palm syncs to Linux a bit easier (so I'm told) and it's a
>little bit smaller than the XDA2.
>
>I'm also considering getting something in the 3G range of devices as
>the cheaper/faster web access is very very attractive to me.
>
>
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