Three things I can't live without
So CNet did this article under their Digital Living Section called "Three Things I Can't Live Without". Its an article on average people and the tech gadgets/gears that they, well , can't live without.
So I decided that I might not get a submission in, nor do I want to, I figure I’ll just do it on my own blog. I mean that’s the point of a personal web space right?
So here are my choices for the Top 3 tech gadgets that are essential to my life, in no particular order:
So this is what I called the GOD-emperor phone. In early 2000 I tried a Handspring phone attachment for my Handspring, and it sucked. It crashed, it crashed my handspring, and it had a terrible interface. Then Palm and Handspring got together and made the Treo line. The Treo 90 and Treo 300 got some nice reviews but they were only the road that paved its way for the Awesomeness that is the Treo 600.
I agree, the Pocket PC has more software and more multimedia features, but the Palm OS keeps coming back. With each newer Palm OS more multimedia features are added, the Palm OS definelty uses slower processors thus less battery drain. But enough about the Palm OS/Pocket PC debate, the Treo has everything. A camera, speakers, SD card slot. I can use my treo for everything, MP3, taking pictures, checking email, checking blogs via RSS feeds, posting on Blogs, get online, and with the right software, I can remote access my PCs. This phone does it all, and now, Palmone just introduce the Treo 650, with Bluetooth and external battery. Though there seems to be some memeory management issues with the new 650.
Yes, I know most people know PVR as TiVo. But I am always a fan of the underdog. Plus during the glory-days of ReaplyTV, ReplayTV had more features, its ability to share shows with other replayTVs online was one of the greatest features. I think TiVo has a better menu and a better theme recording feature. But my ReaplyTV has been good to me, and it will always be in my heart until the day it has a hard drive failure… plus the ability to hack in a bigger hard drive is tres cool. Though I find my self using the verb “TiVOed" since “ReplayTVed" just seem longer and doesn’t roll of the tongue as well.
What more do one need to say about the iPod? Hard Drive based Mp3 players are the way to go. Storing thousands of songs is the way to go. I mean having half of you MP3 collection on one device. I my self asked why would u need that? U can just upload the songs u want to listen to. But then when u have a experience of meeting someone, and u can spend hours talking about all the music u have and giving a 2 hr. sample of the different types of music u have on ur iPod, its just cool. The trick with the iPod is management. U have to setup ur playlists, ur smart playlists, ur Genre and ur groups. Once u have all those down, the iPod is an entertainment machine that one cannot live without. And Apple just release their new iPod Photos. Good stuff but for $100 more then the non colored/photo version.
