The Storm has arrived

Thought about the iPod, but DeAngelis, fellow extreme biz traveler (actually, almost no one compares to Steve) warned me off, saying he has one but that it's still too much the toy to be a serious biz tool (so he pairs his with a Blackberry 3G).

Since I am long-time Verizon and a lazy turd on such things, it took Vonne going nuts with her almost 4-year-old phone to call Verizon and realize that she and my two oldest were due free upgrades while I could have the Storm for $100.

So starting to play.

Thought I would have tons of memos and contacts to move over (hard) with my set-up of Macs, but I really found that both needed severe culling, my "treasures" being a huge, accumulated load of crap and outdated info.

I did get the PocketMac for Blackberry loaded on both my iMac and MacBook and so the synching (finally) is easy (Palm never worked well).

I will have to find and figure out the camera and vid but first test says camera is really good.

Neat bit that does what I felt I would only be able to do on the iPod in conjunction with Mobile.Me (Mac coordinated email program): I erase emails on phone and on Mac account simultaneously.

But what I really love is the media-over-the-web capabilities, which mean I can simply listen in on my web-transmitted Packer games with real ease. Way back when, I would play the game out my Mac speaker and relay through phone to my cell. Now, much simplified. I may even be tempted to listen to the radio through the games at Lambeau--for background, smart-pants bragging rights in my section.

Spoke tonight with Matt Stannard of the SF Chronicle. He's got something interesting going on in terms of a story. Keep an eye out.

Comments

[David Emery]

For what it's worth, I've gotten great results from Markspace.com synch'ing software for my older Palm and my wife's Sony Clie. If you're having problems keeping your crackberry synched with both Macs and Windows, you might want to check them out.

dave

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They're all "toys" if that's the level one wants to play at . . agreed, an iPod is a good companion for travel, etc . . but after having worn two of them out, (Just bought my wife Her second one, also) they're not really "Business Tools" . . . You have to have a smart box on hand to make notes, etc . . Might as well get a BlackBerry or one of many State of the Art "Pocket Computer/Phone,etc." that's out there . .

Keeping up with the technology will drive you nuts though . . and some of them like Palm (and others) don't like our Macs . . .