PDAs - Classic or Dud?

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Are PDAs funlicious supplements to the human brain, or they second only to cell phones in gadgetary annoyance?

With my Palm Pilot, I e-mail my ma, check movie times, store phone numbers, read blogs and Ulysses, write drafts of blog entries, and look up such words as "phalanstery," "reify," and "grisette." I could hug it, it's so adorable. I think I need a date.

― Michael Daddino, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was hoping you meant Public Displays of Affection.

― Ally, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

penile distribution attempts?

― Geoff, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh great you are an expert! please tell me something. I sort of wanted to get one of those things because I thought then I could write things in computer format because I never take my laptop anywhere. But then I found out you have to learn a new language or something to write on them, ok I am just being stupid but you have to learn how to write using only stick shapes is that true? I mean how do you write into yours. And is it easy to transfer stuff to your regular computer. Are they hard to write on?

― maryann, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i thought you meant Public Displays of Affection too, and i was all ready to post something. guess i will just have to start that thread myself.

― lady die, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dud dud dud dud. But they are about 1% cooler than filofaxes. So it's an improvement...

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

what do you mean uncool? pdas are the new pocket protectors, ie MUST HAVE! And it's doubly cool that rap stars use them not realising that!

― maryann, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the new pocket protectors, only 1000 TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE!

― maryann, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How do you guys TYPE on those tiny keyboards?!?

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

come on guys, please can we talk more about these things?

― maryann, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

we found a "paperpalm" in our house the other day. ie a notebook with a picture of a palm on the front, i thought it was pretty cool apart from not having a pen attached, anyway, like i said it just kind of appeared in our house, neither myself or meg bought it, and like no one's been round for ages, weird...

― carsmilesteve, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic. Best way to keep my cd and book want list in one place, and is more efficent than paper.

― Jeff, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dud, so very dud. Almost as bad as cell phones. Unless it's an Apple Newton, then of course Classic.

― Sean, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maryann,

There's a webpage on the Palm website which displays all the different ways you can write stuff on your Palm. It even includes a java simulation of the "Graffiti" writing system you're referring -- though the simulation is much harder to manipulate than the real thing.

For more demanding typing chores, you can always opt for the portable keyboard attachment, which, when folded up, is about the size of a walkman.

― Michael Daddino, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My mom gave me her palm pilot because she didn't find it useful for anything, and I must say I haven't either. The only wireless web thing I would ever want to do is check baseball scores, and the little sportsline site palm had available was completely useless. My cell phone does everything else the palm does, and fits in my pocket better. I can't even imagine reading Ulysses off a palm. Now the Gameboy Advance, on the other hand...(actually think of all the markets Nintendo would have cornered if they put PDA features into the Gameboy, and web access). The dictionary thing is cool though; I never thought of that.

― Kris, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a calendar from MOMA with pretty boys.
PDAs dont have the charm of your own scrawls messing up good design.

― anthony, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I finally found a use for the bewildering array of gadgets I carry round with me everywhere (Psion organiser (sometimes 2), mobile phone, top end Sony minidisc walkman, £50 Penguin-sized Sony aluminium digital radio... occasionally £2000 laptop, pocket TV, camera, associated chargers, batteries, cables. Hiya thieves). I get to the first pub late, no one there. Fuck. Straight onto ILE, find the schedule posted there, and an hour later due to my sub-lady map reading skills, I get to the right pub. £350 well spent.

Or I could have just waited a bit for people to turn up. Never mind.

― Graham, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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