{"id":7,"date":"2005-09-27T20:35:05","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T01:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2005-09-27T20:53:14","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T01:53:14","slug":"technofickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/technofickle\/","title":{"rendered":"Technofickle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Am I technofickle?  Do I fall in love too easily with new toys? Or am I just all thumbs? Ask my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/its\/eis\/wtt\/folks\/dcook.html\">boss<\/a> or my husband&#8230;and you will get a resounding &#8220;YES&#8221;!  But really, what do they know?  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had in my possession a Seimans SX66 for 6 hours now.  And I swear I&#8217;ve only been playing with it for the past 4 hours!  What took me so long?  Had to charge the damn battery and I was in a meeting.  (For the record, the SX66 doesn&#8217;t belong to me.  It is a loaner for testing\/review purposes.  Yes, yes&#8230;I told them they would have to pry it out of my cold dead hands.)<\/p>\n<p>Initial impressions:  I&#8217;ve been resistent to merging my mobile phone with my PDA because I don&#8217;t want anyone telling me what type of PDA I can buy.  But&#8230;this sweet little Seimans SX66 almost has all the features I crave.  <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/images\/being-green.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>400 Mhz XScale Processor<\/li>\n<li>128 MB RAM<\/li>\n<li>Windows Mobile 2004<\/li>\n<li>SDIO memory card slot<\/li>\n<li>VGA Resolution<\/li>\n<li>GPRS<\/li>\n<li>WiFi<\/li>\n<li>Bluetooth<\/li>\n<li>Infrared<\/li>\n<li>USB<\/li>\n<li>Slide-out QWERTY keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Reasonable form factor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Geez, what more could a girl possibly want?  Well&#8230;the SX66 that I have in my hot little hands doesn&#8217;t have a camera. There is a model that does have a camera, so I can quickly solve that problem.  <\/p>\n<p>But the big question is, after the first 4 hours with the SX66, am I in love?  Am I smitten?  Can I see straight?  And what do I think of my Dell Axim x50v and ancient Sony Ericsson T616?<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230;the SX66 has been super simple to start using.  No bigger or heavier than the Axim I always have on me.  I do like the QWERTY keyboard.  But I&#8217;m not sure about the location of the keyboard.  It slides out of the bottom, forcing me into portrait mode.  I&#8217;m surprised to realize that over the past 6 months I&#8217;ve become a landscape mode girl.  So I want my keyboard to come out the side of my device, not the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I definately need to work on my thumb typing skills.  Tonight was my first experience with a thumb keyboard (virgin!).  And while typing with my thumbs came almost naturally (except when I tried to type numbers the first time).  I will admit, that my thumbs are out of shape!  Anyone have a good thumb excercise regime to get me up to speed?<\/p>\n<p>Sweetest moment was when the sync software properly recognized my Axim, then the SX66, then the Axim again.  I&#8217;ve had my laptop get mighty confused as I&#8217;ve flipped between multiple mobile devices.  Forcing me to reinstall sync software just to get the communications going again.  It was a pleasant surprise to have the sync work effortlessly.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;is my Dell Axim x50v destined to become another casuality after less than a year?  Not quite yet.  Unless of course, my brilliant boss wants to buy it for me.  Otherwise, I&#8217;ll just have to wait for my birthday! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Am I technofickle?  Do I fall in love too easily with new toys?  Or am I just all thumbs? Ask my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/its\/eis\/wtt\/folks\/dcook.html\">boss<\/a> or my husband&#8230;and you will get a resounding &#8220;YES&#8221;!  But really, what do they know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}