From: "Geo." 

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:4650bb3d{at}w3.nls.net...

> I can see using a PDA in order to send a message from a place where you
> can't be popping open a laptop. You don't want to have to carry a laptop
> with you everywhere.

I can send simple text messages from my phone, it's just slow and obnoxious
compared to the laptop.

> Some people have an urgent continuous need to communicate. So they thumb
> type while sitting in meetings or classes. Holds little appeal to me
> though.

Some of us think meetings are a waste of time. Every meeting I've been in
for the past 10 years could have been accomplished in 1/10th the time but
people feel the need to drag meetings out. I'd rather have them email me as
they tend to not want to type a lot.

> Yes, PDAs are not a laptop replacement. But they fit well in niches. e.g.
> as receiving devices. Send messages to delivery people or other field
> people telling them what you want them to do next. Send messages to admins
> telling them there's server and network trouble.

You just described how I use my phone, it receives pages from my computers
telling me when one of them is slacking off.. But I need my laptop to fix
the problem.

Geo.

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