{"id":37,"date":"2004-07-16T13:07:26","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T20:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/07\/16\/tungsten-toy\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T00:38:00","slug":"tungsten-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2004\/07\/tungsten-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tungsten Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just got my new toy in the mail \u2014 a Palm Tung\u00adsten <span class=\"caps\">T2<\/span>. For some reas\u00adon it does\u00adn\u2019t show up on the site any more. Maybe I  got the last one they had ;-). Pretty slick pack\u00adaging, col\u00adour screen, and bluetooth. I figured I did\u00adn\u2019t really need the wire\u00adless con\u00adnectiv\u00adity that you get with the <span class=\"caps\">T3<\/span> (well, not for the extra money it would have cost). Ideally I would like a Treo but balked at the cost of that as well. Maybe in a year or two when the prices have dropped. Mind you, I do quite like phones that act like phones, where you don\u2019t look like quite as much of a dork when you\u2019re talk\u00ading to it. So I\u2019ll have to weigh that up against the con\u00adveni\u00adence of all-in-one, and the incon\u00adveni\u00adence when your all-in-one dies suddenly.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I was a rel\u00adat\u00adively early Palm\u00adPi\u00adlot adop\u00adter; not one of the first but not too far behind. I think it was the Pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal. When that one died, I got this viol\u00adent orange Hand\u00adspring Visor Deluxe which was rather cool. That died some time after\u00adwards and I moved on to the skinny Visor Edge. And now that has died com\u00adpre\u00adhens\u00adively as well. Not even the sys\u00adtem reset could get it to flick\u00ader, let alone&nbsp;work.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u00ad\u2019t live without a pock\u00adet-sized device that con\u00adtains my todos, cal\u00aden\u00addar, etc. And I need to be able to edit the files on it while nowhere near a com\u00adputer or the inter\u00adnet (which rules out the iPod, unfor\u00adtu\u00adnately). So after read\u00ading <a href=\"http:\/\/norman.walsh.name\">Norm<\/a>\u2019s entries on the sub\u00adject I decided the Tung\u00adsten looked like the best bet. Keep the old apps, get some more pizza\u00adzz, and col\u00adour and bluetooth as&nbsp;well!<\/p>\n<p>So off to the Pal\u00admOne web site to check ver\u00adsions and prices, they had a good deal on the older <span class=\"caps\">T2<\/span> mod\u00adel, and prom\u00adised 2\u20133 busi\u00adness day deliv\u00adery time to Cana\u00addian orders. I ordered it. And fol\u00adlowed the track\u00ading num\u00adber. By the end of the third day I called the ship\u00adping com\u00adpany. \u201cWe don\u2019t have it, don\u2019t know where it is, call Palm.\u201d I did. \u201cWell, the 2\u20133 days actu\u00adally means to the bor\u00adder. Then you have to wait for cus\u00adtoms, and then it\u2019ll be shipped to you. Usu\u00adally about 5 days.\u201d I poin\u00adted out the web site said 2\u20133. He said he\u2019d pass on the com\u00adplaint. I have a feel\u00ading he\u2019s said this a lot. My Tung\u00adsten turned up on day 4, so I was only some\u00adwhat peeved, but it would have saved that amount of annoy\u00adance and phone calls if the web site had actu\u00adally told the truth about what to expect. I don\u2019t see why that\u2019s so difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mov\u00ading from the old <span class=\"caps\">PDA<\/span> to the new one \u2014 things have improved over the last couple of years. But web sites still are extremely optim\u00adist\u00adic about deliv\u00adery&nbsp;times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}