cell phone geekery
OK, so seriously: TREO, Blackberry, that new Motorola (Q or MxP?), or ? (I think there's even another one I'm missing in this list.)I'm leaning towards getting a TREO, but am just not sure. I sourced some people at SXSW, and so far I've gotten a lot of pluses for it, but I can also understand with any of these I'm sure there's a love/hate. Good ol' electronics! All I know is my current cell phone sucks. It's nice & small, but after a year of having it I've realized it's horrible at recognizing incoming calls & texts even if the person is in my address book - annoying! And I've found the photo quality is just crap. That & I think the whole checking/sending email when, in the rare moments, I am away from my computer is cool. And the calendar thing. :) I think I might even see if someone has a used 650 on CL or something. This will be my first venture into the PDA world, let alone the PDA phone world!
OK, so in summary - My Considerations/Requests:
- Ability to easily type/send/receive text messages
- Have my contacts & calendar on my phone
- Read/send email from my phone - I use IMAP, will that be a problem?
- Have a camera phone that isn't absolutely horrible. I used to never care about the camera on my phone, but now I've come to love the instant upload feature, like snapping a photo of the band I'm watching and having it show up on my flickr page right then! Sarah Hatter is also an awesome leader in the whole cameraphone to flickr revolution. :)
- I use a mac! Which means, can it pretty please sync w/ Address Book & iCal?
- I'm on SprintPCS, and I actually like them. But would be willing to hear about other deals/plans, etc. My only request (and I know it's silly!) is that I want to keep it so that you can hit # to get to the beep and leave a voice mail. I cannot stand it when I'm trying to bypass someone's long VM intro, and I hit # to skip it & it says "Please enter your password". haha. Anyway, Sprint doesn't have that! I've been with them for YEARS. Since like 97 or 98 or something. They should GIVE me a TREO. (I wish)
- I still would like it to be fairly slim & compact. Of course. ;)
