My current object of gadgetlust: the Samsung i500 Palm phone (Times review). Mmm. I’ve been looking to replace my old Kyocera Smartphone for a long while now. The i500 is a bit pricey though, especially considering all I really want out of the PDA functions is the contact management, and not so much the calendar and scheduling, or even the wireless web capabilities, etc. Hm. We’ll see.
Speaking of gadgets, albeit a very low-tech one, I left my umbrella on the Metro this morning. Grr. Oh well, it wasn’t even really my umbrella to begin with. One rainy day in June, I had swiped it from the umbrella stand inside the entrance to H&M, after discovering that my umbrella had been swiped from the stand while I was shopping. And that umbrella, in turn, was one I had taken a couple months ago in New York, during a similar unscrupulous switcharoo. Who are you people, taking my umbrella?! The lesson here: don’t leave your gear at the entrance to a crowded store, or only do so at your smaller, finer retail establishments. I swear, there’s some kind of cosmic redistribution of umbrellas going on.
I just filed a lost-and-found claim with Metro (which was easy enough to do online), but I think I’ll stop by Hechts after work anyway to get a nice new Totes, like my beloved automatic-closing original which I had before the recent spate of umbrella abductions. Maybe this time I should implant some kind of homing chip in the handle.
Update (18:35): Of course, now it’s all bright and sunny outside.
*misses her own phone terribly*
That’s a pretty one, Jeffy!
Ack! I hate bad umbrella karma (or some other suitably “Eastern” invisible-hand type law thingy)! (waves hands in a handwaving sort of way).
I like the phone, but I have a soft spot for ancient phone technology. Time WAS you could get a phone that was big enough so you didn’t have to worry about INHALING it.
I think you know of what I speak.
The T-Mobile Sidekick Color was profiled on Fresh Gear tonight, and it looks really pretty sweet, too.
Heh. Dad wasn’t too happy with the chronic umbrella theft going on up there.
*mutters* Insensitive yankees… all of ya…
I still suffer from multi-gadget syndrome, since my boss has ordered that I use the 5400 series iPaq at work (and I have my regular cell).
The disadvantage is two devises, but I just love that I can program the Pocket PC to operate the TV and radio!
I have to agree with Rajani here. There is something cute and retro about the big cell phone. That and I am tired of being startled by people who appear to be talking to themselves only to see they have a head set attached to an itty-bitty phone.