Since I had been working so hard in the last few weeks, I decided to take it easy for a day or so, keeping away from any writing. What do I do with this time I finally have on my hands? I empty my wallet, of course.<\/p>\n
My antique M100<\/a> had become unreliable and I was seriously considering the Treo 650 (thanks to CFD for his review<\/a>) until I calculated how much it would cost me<\/a> even if I bought it with a three year contract. Voice and data plans for these machines can easily cost you 100$ a month.<\/p>\n When I saw that a new Wi-Fi package<\/a> was included with this baby<\/a>, I just couldn’t resist. And oooooh, is it nice! What a beautiful, bright screen! Setting it up was a breeze and all my old data and programs made it to the new PDA without any trouble. I got an extra 256MB SD memory card so I could record video (the quality is surprising) and use the PDA as an MP3 player. I’ll probably end up buying a dedicated MP3 player but for now this is sufficient for me. The sound is pretty good and the camera takes the best pictures I’ve seen from any phone or PDA.<\/p>\n I’ve tested the Wi-Fi card<\/a> (SD) that was included in the package and it worked right away, without any complicated set up. It’s really weird to browse the Web on such a small machine but the mini browser is doing a decent job at adapting the content to fit the screen. I just got the machine yesterday so I need to do more testing to see how much I actually like this function but I know it will be convenient for quick Google searches or to check out movie times on Cinema Montreal<\/a> when I’m away from my home desktop.<\/p>\n I’ll get busy again with work next week and it’s a good thing because now I’m tempted to go buy fancy accessories<\/a> and applications<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since I had been working so hard in the last few weeks, I decided to take it easy for a day or so, keeping away from any writing. What do I do with this time I finally have on my hands? I empty my wallet, of course. My antique M100 had become unreliable and I… Continue reading Keep me busy, please<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}