Multi vs unitasker

[Tom Buskey]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Travis Roy <travis at scootz.net> wrote:
> > My old Zaurus, while not having phone function ...
>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>  You once gave me a fair bit of grief, in this very forum, because I
> stated I preferred a separate handheld computer and phone.  You argued
> a device which combined phone and PDA would be much better, for the
> convenience of having both in one.  I think that's the point here,
> too.  :)
>
>  (I'm just saying.  They can have my 6-year-old, PalmOS-based, Clie
> PEG-TG50 when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.)


I've juggled an iPhone with it's web browser on the resturant's website
directions vs my GPS with its builtin maps that don't list the resturant but
can get the street.  Then I get my Blackberry w/ its builtin GPS/Google
Maps.

The iPhone and Blackberry have different carriers & thus different signal
strengths.  The GPS & the Blackberry have different algolrithms for street
routing.

Someday, I'll have a leatherman of a PDA with
phone/gps/address/todo/memos/calendar/mp3/web browser/phone/usb drive/eBook
reader/movie watching/youtube watcher/photo browser.  But I'd rather have it
in my pocket like a cybertool.

And to that, I'll take my DSLR camera when I want really good pics, my
computer for more serious web browsing, my disk based iPod to hold *all* my
music, my CF based MP3 player for mountain biking, a media PC for watching
videos......
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