I’ve been waiting to post about this until I was sure I was keeping it. Now that I’m sure, I can admit that I fell—hard—for the siren song of Amazon’s “free after rebates” deal on the Sidekick. (Alas, they’ve raised their price, and it’s now $50 after rebates.)
The short version: I love it.
The long version:
I love it, but…the limited coverage in my area (Rochester, NY) is a real drawback. I can’t get a consistent signal in my house, and my husband can’t take it x-country skiing. I wish there was a good, easy way to send the photos I take with it to a MT blog…haven’t found a decent mail-to-MT gateway yet. I’d like a different or changeable selection of games, and downloadable polyphonic ringtones.
In terms of features, though, it rocks. It’s a phone, a full web browser, an IM tool, a POP3 email client, an address book, a notepad, a calendar, a to-do list. It has games. It included a free camera (low-quality, but still fun). And the “gee-whiz” effect it has on the people around you rivals the TiBook when it first came out.
Most fun I’ve had with it so far? Sitting at breakfast in the RIT president’s office, surreptitiously reading updates about a simultaneous faculty mtg from a colleague via IM. Blogging this while standing in line at Wendy’s with my son. Checking email in the doctor’s waiting room. And sending a photo of friends in a bar to a friend who couldn’t make our weekly lunch, then IM’ing her and passing it around the table (much better than trying to hear over the crowd).
So I’m a moblogger now. Woohoo!
I’m writing this from the balcony of the Eastman Theater here in Rochester, where in a few minutes the RPO (Rochester’s symphony orchestra, for which my stepfather is a cellist) will begin playing. I like this moblogging stuff.
At intermission, we’re to meet up with AKMA, his wife Margaret, who are here visiting their son, Nate. My first second blog “meetup”! (The first was Brandon Barr, who I actually met through my mother rather than his blog…)
Am looking forward to finally meeting another faculty member from “Blog U”—detils to follpw tomorrow. And now—Mozart and Rachmaninoff await. Yum.
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