I’ve been complaining about my Palm Treo for about 875 weeks now. If you were to call me on it, you would only get my actual real-time human voice about 25% of the time. And if you left a voice mail message, I might get it the next day or not at all. Its Palm functions were rendered void when they sent me the phone that uses Windows Mobile, which I never got used to. I contemplated getting rid of the darned thing multiple times a day.
And then it just stopped making or receiving calls altogether, and I “lost my basket.”
Then AT&T sent me a Fuze, which looks like a fat iPhone but has an actual keyboard that slides out from the bottom. Its user manual is 292 pages long. It can slice, dice, and drive me to work. Buried deep in the user manual is this priceless piece of information:
“Like a standard mobile phone, you can use your device to make, receive, and keep track of calls and send messages.”
Wha?! A mobile phone that makes phone calls?! I just don’t know how to adjust to that. I’m in shock.
In a few weeks hopefully I will be using this phone for music, pictures, keeping track of contacts and appointments, email, and ruling the world. But as with every new bit of technology, it will take some adjusting for me. Look how long it took me to start a Google reader (it took me until last week), and I don’t even use it right yet.
I’m with you on the google reader, by the way. I know I have one, but I rarely use it and so don’t know it well. I am also getting a new phone this weekend, and I was thinking — when will I have the time to learn how to use it? I guess I’d better schedule it in!
By the way, I find that, in terms of functionality for a phone, making a receiving calls is key.
Congrats on getting rid of that blasted phone. I hope the new one behaves better
I haven’t bothered with google reader or RSS feeds. I still read blogs the old fashioned way – by going to the actual blog. I find this limits how much time I waste, actually!
Congrats on a phone that actually works as a phone!