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Technology can be your friend, too[ Parent ] (none / 0) (#16)
by Anonymous User on Fri Oct 15, 2004 at 10:31:02 AM PDT

Hi, Last year I purchased an Audiovox PDA/Cellphone. It wasn't much of either. Big, bulky, hard to carry, speakerphone or headphone only, blah, blah, blah. BUT, it held practically limitless contact information and synched perfectly with my PC, so perfectly, in fact, that when my hard drive crashed on my PC, I was able to recover all my info from the PDA. So, maybe that story has a couple of points. Hardware will always fail, redundancy is good. I work on PC's and I build them like stone soup. I get a cheap motherboard or a cheap CPU and an expensive motherboard. Then, I have to buy new RAM because the new motherboard doesn't use the same memory as my old motherboard. I never replace the case cover because I'm always either testing somebody's busted hard drive or fiddlin' with some new accessory. USB, now that is a technology that changed it all. My new PDA is a Samsung i700. It's still big, but not as boxy as the Audiovox AND it's great as both a phone and a PDA. My friends all make fun of my phone which is big enough to be mistaken for an old pacemaker or portable dialysis machine, but it does exactly what I need. Sure, I'd like a battery that'd last for days, but that would probably require a cart of some sort AND I'd like to be able to program it easier. I like technology, but I don't like cutting edge stuff. I'm almost always in the middle of the pack, walking over the bodies of those brave (or stupid) souls that beta tested the hardware/software and paid the price for their eagerness. If I could say this in 10 words or less, I'd say: "Buy tried and true and read and dream about new"

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