Thursday, April 20, 2006
Converged, Non-Converged, or In Between?
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THOUGHT" @ 05:00 AM
With the recent rumor that Dell may be getting out of the PDA business, it sort of got me thinking. That news in 2004 would have been deeply disturbing to me, but today, it doesn't faze me in the least. Not because I don't like Dell devices, but in my opinion, the stand-alone PDA, wirelessly enabled or not, is a dying breed. If the device doesn't have some form of cellular/voice capability, it is destined for a niche market. So I was wondering, what are you using? Converged? If so, which device.
Non-converged? If so, why - is it the money, your carrier doesn't have anything interesting, or some other reason? Personally, I am converged - the HTC Wizard/K-Jam device is my daily driver. Voice is good, the bluetooth headset makes it worthwhile, but the killer aspect of it is the always on data connection. Even at GPRS speeds - I've yet to see EDGE kick in while in Nashville, Newark, Atlanta or Orlando - email is quite usable and web browsing isn't too painful, and the monthly rate is right.
Non-converged? If so, why - is it the money, your carrier doesn't have anything interesting, or some other reason? Personally, I am converged - the HTC Wizard/K-Jam device is my daily driver. Voice is good, the bluetooth headset makes it worthwhile, but the killer aspect of it is the always on data connection. Even at GPRS speeds - I've yet to see EDGE kick in while in Nashville, Newark, Atlanta or Orlando - email is quite usable and web browsing isn't too painful, and the monthly rate is right.