24 Sep
2013
24 Sep
'13
11:21 p.m.
But, yes, far
too many of the smartphone generation put the
engineering into the palmtop computer and treat the phone as, more
or less, an afterthought. And, of course, it shows.
Or it's a reasonable
engineering trade-off given how little the phone
functionality is expected to be used compared to everything else. It is thus rather pleasing that somebody has finally
seen sense and
integrated the cellular modem into my PDA. [...]
I think the only real complaint is that somebody in
the marketing
department hadn't had enough Bolivian marching powder that morning,
and boringly called this remarkable device a "phone".
Well, that and, as I mentioned above, stopped making real phones, or at
least far too close to that. I'm still using my Nokia 5190, and this
is a significant fraction of why. (It dates back to when they were
pretty much just phones - no camera, no Web browser, only trivial
games, no MP3 player, no appointment reminders - the clock in it
doesn't even keep track of the date.)
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