Livin' the life...

Yesterday while walking through a store in Bridgetown, I came upon a book about mobile devices (pdas, smartphones, pocket pcs and the lot). As I flipped through the book, I started to have a really good understanding of the value of these devices. I mean, imagine a handheld device that can be with you virtually anywhere that can play media, take photos, hold your daily planner, let you view documents in Word, Excel, Outlook, let you browse the net and email and of course, make calls. To me, it's just darn cool! (Until someone steals that device.. then... its a darn nightmare! )

So based on that review and some stuff I've been looking at lately, when I got home I started to do a check on some of these devices. Some of the nicest ones I've found are the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 (only good one that has a camera), Palm Treo 750 (seeing it for £408.79) and HP's number, the HP iPAQ rw6815 (for £328.99).

Looking at these devices though, I think the touchscreen is a big +ve that the last two mobiles have over the Blackberry. Also, that Blackberry's screen isn't that big either... to be honest, I mostly included that due to its great features and not the size at all. After scanning the features of the other two though, I think it's the HP that grabs my attention more.. sadly it only has Bluetooth v1.2.. but the other features definitely make up for it!

Before I jet off,... while browsing the mobile phone sites, I had a little surprise as I found two updates to my moto! Now Motorola has the SLVR L7e and the SLVR L9. They are rather similar in design but at least in the L9, the camera has been bumped up to 2MP, Bluetooth is now v2.0, 20 MB of internal memory and an FM radio. Sadly the USB is still v1.1.. I guess that was pushing it??