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

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I could not be without mine, turn it into a cell phone too, one that I
could do emergency computer repairs over VNC with from anywhere I
might be, and it would be even more important for me. That is what I
am after now.


On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:35:58 -0600 (CST), Mike Miller
<EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> >> Integrated with a cell phone,
> >
> > But I don't use a cell phone.  OK, so what I've learned from this is
> > that IF you are a person who needs a cell phone, you'll probably find
> > all of the other stuff compelling.  I'm not in that category.
> 
> Yes.  The reason I took the time to type those lists of features was not
> to convince you to get a PDA, it was because I was personally pleasantly
> surprised by the many uses I found for the PDA and cell/PDA integration
> once I studied it and used it for a while.  I wouldn't have bought one
> except that I could pay for it from an account at work.  Now I'm kinda
> addicted.
> 
> 
> > I have a wallet with a paper calendar in it; works about the same. But
> > it's also true that I don't have too many unpredictable meetings.
> 
> For me, with many annoying, irregularly-scheduled meetings, it helps a lot
> to have everything in the PDA, which beeps to remind me that it's time for
> the next meeting.  A paper calendar wouldn't beep, and I'd miss a meeting.
> Another big advantage of e-calendar is the handling of repeating meetings.
> 
> 
> > Now the interesting thing is that I used to know a ton of people who
> > used PDAs, but now I know very, very few people who do...unless they're
> > attached to a cell phone.  I have to admit, that's not what I would have
> > predicted back in 1999.
> 
> I think we will all be using them someday.  The features keep piling up
> and the price keeps coming down.  Soon they will be even cooler than the
> Dick Tracy wrist watch we all once craved to own (does that date me?).
> 
> Mike
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