Monday, July 26, 2010
Droid X
I did the deed... ordered the Droid X today!
Background: my Palm Pilot died. No one makes PDAs like it any more, without bundling them with a cell phone. Since I'll be using it mostly for work-related stuff, like my old Palm Pilot, BYU will pay for the cell phone. Well, my supplies account at BYU will. Also, BYU gets substantial discounts, so the monthly cost for the Verizon plan will only be about $30/month, instead of about $100/month that a similar personal plan would cost.
I'm excited! What's really cool and a bit mind-boggling is the way it (and similar phones) are so many devices in one. You combine a high speed processor, an internet connection, cool sensors, and an open source operating system, and wonderful things result. It's a phone, a web browser, a PDA (appt calendar, etc), a camera, a video camera, a flashlight (using the camera flash LEDs), an MP3 player, a GPS, a calculator, a USB storage device, a bar code scanner, a movie player, a game player, a streaming audio player (Pandora), a speedometer for running/biking (via GPS), a remote control for a computer, a metal detector (of the stud finder variety, I think; probably not of the beach-combing variety), a guide to visible star constellations, etc.
Background: my Palm Pilot died. No one makes PDAs like it any more, without bundling them with a cell phone. Since I'll be using it mostly for work-related stuff, like my old Palm Pilot, BYU will pay for the cell phone. Well, my supplies account at BYU will. Also, BYU gets substantial discounts, so the monthly cost for the Verizon plan will only be about $30/month, instead of about $100/month that a similar personal plan would cost.
I'm excited! What's really cool and a bit mind-boggling is the way it (and similar phones) are so many devices in one. You combine a high speed processor, an internet connection, cool sensors, and an open source operating system, and wonderful things result. It's a phone, a web browser, a PDA (appt calendar, etc), a camera, a video camera, a flashlight (using the camera flash LEDs), an MP3 player, a GPS, a calculator, a USB storage device, a bar code scanner, a movie player, a game player, a streaming audio player (Pandora), a speedometer for running/biking (via GPS), a remote control for a computer, a metal detector (of the stud finder variety, I think; probably not of the beach-combing variety), a guide to visible star constellations, etc.
# posted by John Colton @ 12:19 PM 
