Monday, January 06, 2003

I'm busy configuring my Sony Clie PEG-NX70V palm based PDA (I have got to come up with a name for this puppy). Things are humming along pretty well - fabulous fabulous screen and interface. I think I'm in love. However, as with any love, there are a few, shall we say, issues: I am particularly excited by the MP3 player - it will be very nice to have a few tunes available for all those hours I spend in doctors' waiting rooms. However, what is not made clear is that a memory stick is required to download any MP3 files - even just one song. And of course, the Clie does not come with a memory stick. Harumph. I ordered my 128 MB stick today. GCI, like 99% of the rest of the Corporate Universe, uses Microsoft Outlook as its e-mail client. So this afternoon, I devoted an hour configuring my Clie to sync up with Outlook e-mail. After all - my ancient Palm V downloaded my corporate e-mail, so there should be no sweat with the Clie. Au Contraire. For some reason, I couldn't find any documentation on how to sync up with Outlook - other e-mail info was available, but not Outlook. After much digging I ended up on the Intellisync web site. As it turns out, there are technical issues with NX70V's, Intellisync and Outlook. Because I have a geeky nature, I was able to unearth that info. But what about un-geeks like the Ski Boy or Dr Wald. They wouldn't have had a prayer - why couldn't Sony and Intellisync been upfront about documenting this problem? It would have certainly been more customer friendly. A positive - the graffiti entry screen is amazing- you can see the character as you're writing it. As a result my error rate is way less and I can write graffiti almost as fast as regular writing. I had thought I would switch to the Clie's Blackberry-like keyboard. But the graffiti entry screen is so slick that I'll probably use it instead of the keyboard. 8:18:47 PM    comment []

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