Treo 650…Palm faith came back!
Thomas Menguy | December 26, 2005As a proud gadget geek, I’ve got my first palm (a palm III) when I was still a student: at this time in France it was more of a geek oddity than the cool and fashionable gadget for young executives it was in the US. (things have changed, and now in France or US it is no more than a “has never been” gadget )
I was REALLY using it, for all my contacts and all those tiddibits of information one needs to acced/enter anytime. Then I grow up, I began to work with a wifi notebook and above all a cellphone was always in my pocket: my beloved palm Tungsten 3 had been downgraded to a poor game boy like device…And one inspired day I bought a Treo 650 on eBay.
I’m really amazed by this device:
- The keyboard is BRILLIANT, fast, precise: I can really use it to enter data (like this post, or above all ideas/todos).
- It is a phone…so it is CONNECTED email, sms, web all in one package, in comparison my bluetooth phone + my tungsten T3 was a lame package (The treo phone part is good enough to forget easily my K700i).
- And above all it is COOL&FUN to use it
The key part of the equation is that I’ve became addicted to my own adapted (rather simple) GTD methodology, and the treo, as a great data gathering and consulting device really makes the whole thing …hum…should I say efficient?
A next action to add/change/mark as complete…treo. A whiteboard to be saved after a meeting…take a picture with the treo. A new idea that will revolutionize the whole world (hey a boy also can dream)…add a todo or note in the treo.A quick mail check/send…treo.
I’ll describe more precisely my GTD implementation in another, long term due, post.
Anyway I’ve came up with few downsides:
- The treo is far from being as thin as my K700i, and you look like a kind of goldorak/bioman/power ranger with this small brick on your ear … Now I really use my bluetooth headset
- If you have a good keyboard…it is easier to write messages…my sms plan has exploded.
- If you have a good browser/mail app and it is easy and quick to be connected….your data plan, like mine, will explode
- Add/test/remove/configure applications … Procastination takes a looooong time, but it is sooooo fun (more on my treo setup in yet another post)
So for now I use my treo everytime, for everything… Did I say waiting for the next gadget? Anyway I really feel this time I USE my gadget, I’m not only PLAYING with it…perhaps after all I’m really growing up…brrrr…frightening isn’t it?