Like a beeper
May 31, 2008 The Story of My Life
So my friend Kimmb. wrote me warning about blackberry addiction and I explained to her how I’d want to use the thing and she said, “Oh like a beeper!” So I’m stealing that to explain it here. Basically I’m on-call from 9am to 5pm and I want to be on-call and still leave my house. I’ll turn the thing off at 5 or 6 and be done with it.
But I just can’t convince myself to take on another bill. The geegaws themselves are so expensive (although we have an old Treo floating around the house somewhere — Brett’s brother gave it to us — and we could maybe just buy a charger cord) and then the monthly charges don’t appeal to me. Because I am CHEAP. And I’m not yet convinced that it will make my life X dollars a month better. I mean, sure, it would be great to have one but would it be $360 to $720 a year great? I don’t spend $360 a year on my clothes (thrift store). I also hate finding new indispensable things to spend money on because then I’m like a slave to them. Like stupid Tivo. Or back how I used to think dial-up was all that until we got cable internet.
There is no going back, my friends!
Brett is putting his mad research skillz to use to help me figure it out and I’m going to forget about it until he submits his report. Probably I’ll end up getting one but not for a zillion years while we discuss it to death and spend way too much time on youtube watching the product demos. We don’t tend to make decisions lightly even when they are relatively light decisions.
By the way, he quit his Home Depot job. He was very disappointed by the no discount thing and I was missing being able to take his presence around here for granted so he quit. This means he can come with me to this birthday party we’re going to at 4pm. Yippee-skippee!
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Tags: blackberry, PDA, treo
Blackberries?
May 30, 2008 work work work
Julia is telling me that a blackberry would change my life and I’m trying to figure out how a person who is tech-illiterate when it comes to these mobile devices would go about making a decision about this.
Can those of you who actually understand this PDA business help answer some questions? Like:
–Does a regular cell phone plan work for them and then you can use wifi to get online or is it something more complicated?
–Can a person really type on those things?
–Does it cost to send emails or is it free (like if you’re using wifi)?
–What’s the most I should spend for a PDA? I don’t need a lot of bells & whistles.
–What’s a decent plan to power the thing?
–Are they all Mac-compatible or will I need to do something fancy?
Teach me, oh glorious internet people! I’m reading around and just getting more confused. (Listen, I didn’t even know how to answer my cellphone until Pennie showed me how to do it.)
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Tags: blackberry, Julia, macintosh, PDA, productivity, treo