Billy Bob's Thoughts of the Day

Monday, February 14, 2005

Found a new toy

Well I finally got my hands on one a few weeks ago, a second hand Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 PDA. It's not new, Sharp have even stopped selling the whole range anywhere but Japan, but I don't care, I love her.
For the techno geeks out there (like me) it's a SL-5500, running OpenZaurus 3.5.2/Opie 1.1.8, has a 512MB SD card and a NL-2511 wifi card.
This is not the first PDA I've owned, I've had three palm pilots before this, but for some reason this one has really struck a cord. It could be the fact it has a little keyboard and so this makes it a little more easy to entry data into, or the fact I have a wifi card and so can surf the web with it, I'm not really sure.
I've always been intreged with the idea mobile and instant communication anywhere in the world. The PDA and Smartphone seem to give people this without the need of a laptop. I find the whole area so interesting. How much more personal can you get for the average young adult than the mobile phone, iPod, PDA, etc. Your phone makes as much a statement about you as your haircut, clothes and jewelry. So much more interesting than corperate software (my day job).
So you people out there who need to write blogs, instant message, email or play games, get a PDA or a smartphone they are a bloggers dream.

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