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The angle of Modern Nomads, as explained in the news item here, is one I find quite compelling. Like most people on this site, I keep buying a new device at a rate of about one a year (which sounds excessive when I write it out like that). Personally, I find this a constant struggle -- using the tool to create results versus merely constantly paying attention to the tool, or replacing it!
While PocketPCThoughts is unbeatable as a resource for new information and technical support, I'm keen on the idea of a site that's focused on being productive with one's existing equipment. I use my Pocket PC in so many different ways during the day, but from what shows up in print about these devices, you'd think all we do is buy new hardware and software all the time.
I think sales of these devices would jump if people could better hold in their imagination what they can be used for. Here are some of the sorts of things I've done with my Windows Mobile device lately:
- Wake up, fetch my e-mail and RSS feeds from news websites and my friends' blogs, and read them.
- Save articles out on my PC while working (RepliGo) for reading later, while stuck waiting somewhere.
- Find my way easily back to my hotel after walking all day in a foreign city I've never been to before (with TomTom Navigator and GPS receiver).
- Write an article for publication (using a Stowaway Bluetooth keyboard) and send it in over a wireless connection.
- Have a conversation on Skype with someone overseas.
- Make an audio note of an idea I have for a short story.
- On vacation, look up the Wikipedia entry for the tourist attraction I'm in front of (TomeRaider).
- Listen to an audiobook while cooking supper.
- Go to sleep to soft tunes from a streaming internet radio station (with Resco Radio), with the Pocket PC shutting itself off after a while (when I'm asleep).
I'm sure others can think of hundreds of additional uses. It would be neat to hear more about that.
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