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Long term crackberry addict–since 2001–checking in. Having all my email everywhere I go has become nearly a fact of life for me. I don’t take notes anymore–I email things to myself and save them to a folder.

In terms of organization, the biggest kicker for me is that the blackberry is a view on my exchange calendar at work. So if something gets added, it automatically appears, etc. For the chronically disorganized this is like butter.

More recently I upgraded to one of the more modern blueberry devices. It rocks. Aside from the included brickbreaker game, it does the wireless web better than anything I have seen short of a laptop. And it works in Europe.

Basically, once you go completely electronic you never want to go back. And blackberries integrate so sweetly into the corporate back-end that one really never wants to be without it.

The best thing about PDAs and smart phones? Mobile internet.

We were recently in the depths of a welsh forest for a day’s mountain biking. I’d booked a place on the uplift truck (big truck to take us to the top of the mountain, repeatedly) but had forgotten my ref. number. Fire up the browser, look it up, sorted - and all of it absolutely miles from civilisation

Well I’m on the fence when it comes to the Palm’s. I own a Palm Tungsten E organizer. To me, it was all about calendar / appointment organization. For the longest time my schedule was arranged by me carrying around one of those pocket calendars and me writing (in very tiny letters) what I had going on that day. It was quite a pain and by the end of the year, it was falling apart from being used all year. Getting the Palm was making that organization so much easier.

My pet peeve is that the battery life on these (maybe it’s just mine, not sure). I’ll carry it around and usually only turn it on to check my shedule for the day or add some events. So it’s never used for a contant period of time, only short spurts. Needless to say, if I don’t charge it after 2 days of using it for (maybe) an hour total it says the battery is getting low and should recharge. I don’t see how anyone could use it for playing games (which you can) or things like that if the battery can’t even last a couple hours of use!

So perhaps I just need a new one or something, but it has its good and bad points.

// End rant

[…] Have a look at that sexy beast! About a week ago I was wondering what was with the all the hype surrounding PDAs, etc. The major problem I had with having one is the chance of me carrying around a cellphone and a PDA as well is pretty slim. When I go out, I rarely carry a purse, I grab my checkcard, ID, and phone and I’m good to go. I like having my hands free. But, Ingoal pointed out that you could have two-in-one and I thought about that some, concluding that I already had a pretty good phone and perhaps once I needed a new phone, I would look into it more. […]