How young do you feel?
Jim Soriano wrote this comment about my recent SideKick 3 screed:
How young do you feel?
IMHO the Sidekick 3 is an unintersting tweener product. It’s still a poor phone, a weak camera, a horrible game platform, a fair email tool, and a great text chatting machine, all at an expensive price. It will be bought as bling and used primarily by teen TXT and IM freaks. Lindsay Lohan will be given 5 of them studded with precious and semi-precious stones, will use them at premiers and parties for 2 months, and then will lose them all without regret.
Content is king, especially in the personal/portable device world.
If your idea of “can’t live without” content is messaging, then try an SK3. If your main content is email, buy a Blackberry. If your content is movies, get a PSP. If voice is your main content, then any quality phone will likely make you happy. If you need a great PDA with reasonable voice capabilities, then you’re back to the Treo (PalmOS, please) or for masochists a WM5 HTC platform.
If your idea of killer content is games (i.e. you want to have fun with your handheld toy), then buy a Nintendo DS Lite. Ron, you are *so* young that I think you’d be all a giggle with an NDSL and its integrated Wi-Fi for chatting and web surfing on TWO screens. Plus it plays movies and absolutely addictive games.
If you haven’t done so, go out NOW and try an NDSL with Brain Age, New Super Mario Bros, Final Fantasy, etc. There’s even a massage attachment available for the NDS to sooth tired muscles after playing too many games. Or so I’m told.