Windows Phone Thoughts: Does Your Pocket PC Interfere With Your Life?

It's called a PDA because it's supposed to be a "Personal Digital Assistant," but has your device interfered with your life instead of assisted it? Maybe not directly, but how about the way others perceive you? Does your spouse or partner roll their eyes when they see you staring contently into your device? Did you ever have your friends or family wait up for you because your device was in the middle of an ActiveSync or data transfer? Can you no longer perform simple mathematic functions or easy tasks without having to involve your Pocket PC?



Since my new job next week is giving me a Blackberry with unlimited data, I decided to cut out the data portion on my family plan and sell off my Verizon XV6700 a little early for an experiment. After the first two days of having a "digital withdrawal," I finally admitted that I was able to concentrate more on my kids and my wife, performed chores and duties around the house with more time and less stress, and even spent less time in the can (sorry for the visual, but it's true). So, for me as the Mobile Madman, maybe the PDA might have been a PDI (meaning "Personal Digital Interference"), but have you considered the possibility for yourself, or have you already allocated some "away time" from your gadgets in order to properly balance your digital life with your personal life?