Too many devices?

I’m a gadgaholic, suffering from TMD (Too Many Devices)!!

I’m the “King of Convergence”, but I’m still not convinced that means just ONE device – not yet anyway!
Being a Road Warrior too means I want kit that’s easy to stow & easy to charge.
1st device was a Psion Organiser (God I’m old!) then to Windows on a HP Jornada 680, which got me hooked on clamshells.
Nothing’s come close since – even the Communicator 9500 missed the mark by not having a colour screen – but today there’s the Nokia E90 – almost bliss, even for fat digits like mine!
I still like to have a separate Sat Nav – TomTom 6 is a favourite, its loaded on one of my “previous” devices – a Fujitsu Siemens T830, which I also thought was going to be the Be All and End All!
Have to say, I don’t think all the negative comments about the “small screen” are justified, but I use pop up reminders alot, and their a real nuisance when they freeze the navigation!
As you can tell from the devices mentioned so far, I don’t have a problem with larger models, just with having too many of them! I like a bit of “substance” in my toys (and other things!) – something you can get your hands on – too many of the lighter, waif-like, offerings are so easy to drop or damage.
I do, however, use a Blackberry Pearl for the “day job”,and an E61 for back up – see what I mean about too many devices!
You only have to have one stolen, as I did with an early iPAQ 5450, acting as my first sat nav, to feel that you always have to have some sort of fallback position!

None of these wonderful toys ever comes out of the box “just right”.  There’s always something you have to add, be it a cover, or a car charger, or that bit of software you can’t live without!  I personally swear by Pocket Informant and SPB Time, Pocket Plus, Mobile Shell and Menu on Windows devices, and, more recently QuickOffice, Profimail & Papyrus on the S60 platform.

So I thought it was time to start the global search for recommendations – what do you most like on your device?

Is there something you can’t live without?

Please come back to me - perhaps between us we can start creating the list of what we really want in our hand;

what works, and what doesn’t?

Most of my software fix I can get from Handango – perhaps you can too?
Try this    http://www.handango.com/
And let me know if you have a favoured supplier!

Thanks for reading!  Till next time.

hojomo

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