[MLUG - DISCUSSION] what do you do with a PDA that requires a PDA?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:43:20 -0600 (CST), Mike Miller
<EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> > I still haven't figured out anything useful to do with Bluetooth,
> > though, since I don't have a cell phone.
> 
> PDA?  I'm really liking my Treo 600 and I expect the Treo 650 is even
> better.  The Treo 650 has Bluetooth.  You can do really, really cool stuff
> with these things.

Like what?  And, no, I'm not trying to be obnoxious.  (Or more
obnoxious than usual).  My calendaring needs are nearly zero.  I don't
call many people up.  I have a huge number of people I send email to,
of course, but that's already taken care of.  You can't take really
notes on a PDA, and any time you'd want to do something computer-ish
with one, it's not clear to me you wouldn't be better off with a
laptop or else just postponing whatever it is you're doing.  I don't
play games.  I like to have a really big display.  I guess I used to
like having a real calculator with me, but a calculator is much
cheaper than a PDA if that's what I want.

As far as I can tell, *if* I really needed to have and use a cell
phone, then getting one that did PDA-like things might make sense. 
(Having a really really small camera would be nice).  But once you've
decided you're not going to mess around with a phone, I'm not seeing
anything much else I'd really and truly use it for in real life.  So I
know I must be missing something here, but I'm not sure what.

Maybe my life is just too boring for high-tech toys. :-)  All I know
is that running bluetooth soaks up battery power, so I have it turned
off on the Powerbook.  The icon is cool...kinda runic.

jking
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