My old Palm IIIx was a much more useful productivity tool than this LG Android phone I'm using now. It was snappy, had a built-in suite of organization apps which worked extremely well, and I could input characters extremely quickly without even looking.
The thing that makes this smartphone superior is something which can disappear at any moment: connectivity. Using Google Navigation was pretty slick until I got to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, where there is no signal for hours. Luckily, Navigation caches map data, but if you switch to another app, it drops all theroute data on the floor.
Input is the worst aspect of smartphones. Keyboards aren't the solution. It's 2011, why do I still have to contorted my body to fit machines? Where is my skull implant, or brain wave sensing headband? This is the reason Siri will be awesome.
The thing that makes this smartphone superior is something which can disappear at any moment: connectivity. Using Google Navigation was pretty slick until I got to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, where there is no signal for hours. Luckily, Navigation caches map data, but if you switch to another app, it drops all theroute data on the floor.
Input is the worst aspect of smartphones. Keyboards aren't the solution. It's 2011, why do I still have to contorted my body to fit machines? Where is my skull implant, or brain wave sensing headband? This is the reason Siri will be awesome.