Picking a device based on wishful thinking never works out in the end. When I was using my Motorola v710, there were a lot of pissed off folks who bought it under the idea that one day somebody would enable the rest of the Bluetooth functionality. I wasn't nearly as annoyed simply because I accepted that I was getting a set of features on my phone and I wasn't getting others. It would have been nice, but I didn't need them.
So, previously, I wrote about my new VX6800 phone mostly based on my experiences with Windows Mobile 6. That's stuff that's wrong or quirky or positive with my phone that Microsoft can take most of the credit for. But what about the phone itself?
So, I finally decided upon the VX6800 to replace my old Motorola Q. I played around with both the VX6800 and the SCH-i760, both having the required features of a keyboard, a touch-screen, wifi, a camera, and an OS that will let me install SSH without a jailbreak.
This is quite neat. See, it's a single-user OpenID provider for those of us who would rather use our own sites instead of somebody else's.... and for the case of a single user per domain, it works quite well.
I've been running two major sites... this one, and Wirehead Arts. And both of them had weird hacked up largely static-content text based engines to them. First, I rebuilt this site to use Rm, but recently I rebuilt Wirehead Arts to use Rm...
So a guy I worked with once wrote something almost exactly like this. It was an excellent piece of software. I'm kinda glad that somebody else has gotten the same good idea.
I'm kinda happy about how the market's being shaken up for once. I had regarded the whole PDA / Smartphone market with a certain amount of distaste and disinterest for quite some time. My old Viewsonic PDA died and I found I just wasn't using it for anything useful.. and then I ended up getting the Motorola Q because at least it had a decent web browser and keyboard so that I could text people instead of having to deal with my basic fear of telephones.
Copyright 2007, Ken Wronkiewicz