About a week and a half ago, my Palm T|X fell from our phone cabinet and my keys went with it.
The screen itself appears to be holding together but there’s funny business going on underneath. Where you see yellow in the picture, the dead grey pixels are slowly taking over and spreading out. It’s getting difficult to see people’s addresses and phone numbers in my contact list.
I started off with a Palm V. I’d play Mahjong while waiting in long lines. There are years of Palm archives on my computer that contain contact and calendar information. If an appointment wasn’t on the calendar then it didn’t exist. It took me a long time to figure out how to use Graffiti so my letters were recognized. I bought a keyboard for it thinking I would write story ideas into the memos but the keyboard never worked right.
When I thought my Palm had been lost in a recliner I bought another one to replace it. After a week or two, I really dug into that recliner and found the original one. I kept the one with the better buttons and sold the other one to my friend Rob. He loved having it, but left it on top of his car one night after work and drove off without it. Rob was distracted when he answered his cell phone. He did find it, but it was in such bad shape he bought another used one.
A few years ago my husband decided I needed an upgrade. He knew I wouldn’t do it myself. My Christmas present was this Palm T|X. It had color! Sound! Wifi! Bluetooth! I could no longer play Mahjong during long waits but I could read books with the Adobe Reader. Or check my email at the airport. Or figure out from imdb.com what movie my family was watching while at the Topsail Beach house. One of the really cool things was color coding all my calendar entries. If it was Orange then I was going to see a movie. If it was Pink, then I had something writing related to do.
Palm stopped making the T|X in March 2009. A few months ago the Palm OS stopped on mine and I had to upgrade to a higher version. I found out the hard way it couldn’t setup recurring tasks like the old OS. Put a check mark in the box and it would not generate the same task for the next week; I missed that feature. And the desktop calendar didn’t show the color coded entries.
It looks like an iPhone is my near future.
I just got an iPhone and I already love it and wonder how I lived without it!
.-= Kathy R (Bermudaonion)´s last blog ..Our Life in France – banking, money and numbers =-.
My husband has had one since July or August and I have been quietly envious of it. I started looking at one for myself in September but still haven’t bought one. hehe
Ah, I miss my Treo in the same way. Budget cuts meant I couldn’t keep it for work anymore. If it’s any consolation, the same thing that happened to your TX happened to my Nikon camera. I wept for a day.
.-= Kathy´s last blog ..How Windy Got in Her Tree =-.
When it happened I was upset with myself for never buying the T|X a case. Now that it’s gotten worse I find myself upset over the end of the simplicity of an era.