Pleased am I

I've been in the market for a new cell phone to replace my nearly three-year-old handset, so last week I followed the herd of my friends who'd recommended it and bought my very own Treo 650. I can't believe I waited this long.

There are a lot of pluses. Foremost, I get to replace both my phone and my PDA with one device, in a form factor that's not too much larger than my old headset. It's also got a decent-for-snapshots camera (that plays nice with Flickr), so there's another device I don't have to pack everywhere. Secondly, Sprint offers a very reasonable service plan that gives me the voice minutes I need along with all-you-can-eat internet access, meaning I can use the Treo for e-mail and light web work when I'm away from the office but don't want to lug a laptop. (The inexpensive combination of voice and data service surprised me. It's only $3 more per month than my old plan.)

On those trips where I do haul along the iBook, though, the phone is really going to come in handy, since its Bluetooth capability allows me to use it as a high-speed wireless modem. That means no more shelling out outrageous fees for hotel or airport wireless and no more struggling to check my e-mail or update websites on a fluky, long-distance dial-up connection when I come home to visit my mom. Which is where I am now, posting this at blazing speed.

Have I mentioned lately how much I love living in the future?

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