RIP TREO
Submitted by tcblack on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 12:42pm
I walked into my office this afternoon and picked up my cellphone and .... what.... oh man! My phone is dead. My beloved Treo 650 which has served well over the last few years gave up the digital ghost. It won't boot, and charging it only makes the battery hot. I have no idea why it finally perished but so be it.
The problem is I've lost my evening reading bible (Palmbible +) as well as my contacts, calendar, to do and well, all the stuff that I carry with me all the time in it's relatively tiny package. The biggest part I'm going to miss is the Bible. I took it visiting, and read it every night, even when I would wake up in the middle of the night since I could read it without lights on and the back light turned real low. I had the ESV, NIV, NASB, KJV, Greek, Hebrew and even Haitian Creole bibles on it plus a lot more.
So I rummaged through the closet and grabbed an old LG clamshell of my wife's which has a few quirks (defects) but at least it mostly works. I swapped my sim card and voila! I'm good to go at least for a few days while I pray about a replacement. I'm not sure I really want to go back to a full PDA phone even though I miss it. I'll get used to whatever I use. But what I need to make sure of is that I don't get something I don't need.
Any suggestions?
Comments
I may have a friend willing
I may have a friend willing to donate his 650 to you, if you would use it. Let me know.
smart phone
When my phone died, I was unwilling to spend the money on the data contract that is required with a new smartphone. Therefore, I would recommend looking at eBay for a smartphone for your cell provider. When you find a couple, call your provider to verify that they will activate it. Then buy the best you can get for an acceptable price.
For me I was able to do this, Alltel activated the phone, and I was not required to buy the data plan.
Thanks for the heads up
I hadn't thought about the data plans being required. I'm grandfathered in on a plan that they no longer offer. I have to be careful what I do lest they decide they can make me change my whole plan.
Garrett, I would certainly
Garrett,
I would certainly use it of course I'm interested. Send me an email via the contact form.
What do you want to carry with you?
Depending what you want to do, you can pick up an older PDA (not a phone) pretty cheap, then just load it up with your Bible Software, assuming the software doesn't a newer OS... I have a Palm z21 I gave my wife with a copy of Olivetree Biblereader and a mobile MS Office clone and she is happy... (She prefers clamshell phones to Bluetooth ear pieces or using a smartphone directly...)
Also, you might want to visit www.ppcgeeks.com and see if someone can help with repairs, spare parts, replacements, suggestions, compairisons, etc... (Its a WM5/6 Site... I forget if your phone is Palm OS or WM5...)
God Bless,
John
I want to carry as little as
I want to carry as little as possible. This is one of the reasons I'm so fond of the smartphone concept. I'm actually hoping for the holographic technology (ala star wars) to take off so I can have a phone the size of a pea that projects a book sized motion sensitive screen. :-)
As for OS the Treo 650 is Palm. I've had Palm OS based organizers since Handspring came out with their first model and when I dropped my last one I converged my cellphone and organizer into the Treo 650. I'd upgrade faster but man those things are expensive - even with a contract.
Now If only we could get to the point of having Bibleworks or Libronix run on one I'd be all set.