01.28.08

What I want in a Phone/PDA

Posted in PDA, Phone, Uncategorized at 19.58 by Gabe

Requirements

Make calls (the k-jam was slow, shesh, even the AT&T Tilt is slow)
Do email - both personal and business
Browse the web - BB doesn’t support crap. IE (even on WinMO 6) is old. Opera is slow.
Address book (sync over the phone network, with Google or Outlook)
Calendar (sync over the phone network, with Google or Outlook)
Task List (sync over the phone network, with Google or Outlook)
Bluetooth: hands free w/ my Jawbone, data xfer.
ssh
Qwerty Keyboard (the AT&T Tilt is mushy, the BB is pretty good).
Big, clear screen
Make outgoing calls hands free (voice dialing).
3+MP Camera (N90 is Awesome! Tilt is ok. K-Jam is similar in focus, but low on MP)
View images
Play music (BB 8700c is crap! WinMoMedia Player is ok
GPS Maps (Google maps pseudo GPS isn’t too bad. Tilt has GPS, but the update feature is annoying)
Games (though i usually read RSS feeds in my free time)
RSS
3G (using EDGE now, and ssh is … sluggish to say the least)
WiFi (when I’m at home or some free is availble. Maybe some day the data network will be as fast as wifi)
Alarm (BB is CRAP. WinMo has 5 customizable alarms, quite good)
Real network (I don’t get that MEdiaNet crap from AT&T

MS Natural Ergo 4000

Posted in Computer, Uncategorized at 18.52 by Gabe

The wireless mouse/keyboard at work was WAY to flaky, so I got wired ones.

The MS Natural Ergo 4000 is very good, with one major flaw: space bar. When you have a split keyboard, your thumbs rest on the edges of the space bar. So when you click it, you’re no where near the middle. With this keyboard, pushing the edge (I seem to hit the space bar with my right thumb 99% of the time) is very difficult. It sticks and doesn’t work unless you really push it hard.

I miss my MS Natural Elite (I have at home). Has a strange home/end/del/insert/pageup/pagedown setup, and its native PS/2 instead of USB (there’s an adapter that seems to work fairly well), but other than that its great.

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