I realize that there is a lot of hype about the upcoming iPhone, but I have to say that I am perfectly happy with my new favorite toy: the Palm Treo 700p. I’ve mentioned that I was due for a new phone this month and after several weeks of research and internal debate over whether or not to make the switch to a smartphone, I finally decided to just do it.
The decision to go with the 700p over all the others wasn’t an easy one. Originally I was quite taken with the idea of the Motorola Q, but found that I didn’t really like the feel of it in my hands (too thin, too wide). I’ll soon be making the switch from a PC (so long, Dell) to a Mac, and my research revealed that the the 700p (which runs on the Palm OS) is the best Mac-compatible smartphone available on the market.
The only problem I’ve encountered with it so far was entirely my fault. Within four days of getting the phone, I somehow managed to lose the stylus. After looking around for a couple days I realized that I’d probably just have to buy a new one. On Tuesday, my coworker Chris and I took a quick jaunt over to the Best Buy on 23rd Street, where a sales guy named Pierre showed me to the Treo accessories. I grabbed a pack of three styli and brought them to the register.
Chris’s jaw dropped when I went to swipe my card. “32 dollars!? You’re paying 32 dollars for three pens?”
Pierre looked at him apologetically and explained, “Yeah, but these are made from Platinum, man!”
I raised an eyebrow. “Platinum? Really? Do you know what platinum is?”
Suddenly Pierre got a little bit nervous and started to backtrack, “Um, or maybe aluminum? Or titanium?”
I stifled a laugh and asked, “Adamantium, perhaps?”
“Yeah,” said Pierre, his face lighting up with [imagined] recognition. “Adamantium. That sounds right. They’re adamantium.”
I accepted my package with a smile, pleased that I now owned three styli made from the most indestructible [fictional] chemical substance on Earth.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
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3 comments:
Wolverine would have been way less intimidating if his only means of intimidation were a menacing sneer and three Treo stylii on the back of each hand...
Perhaps they're made from bits of Adam Ant's shattered career.
If Apple devices required a stylus, would they then call it an iStylus, or iStyli for plural purposes?
I'm about to cop that new Black Berry Pearl.
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