Handheld PC, Ipod or Phone
My hunger pangs for techie gadgets grows greater week to week.
Several weeks ago, I have discovered what an MP3 wonder my former Hewlett-Packard iPaq was. My close friend came to Bicol with a wrecked heart because of a wrecked CD player [the player apparently had gotten used to playing pirated music copies; she banged the player for its refusal to play an original CD; the result: dead air for hours while driving the errain stripped of cellphone and radio station signals]. Thus, the idea of connecting her iPaq [we have the same model; she still has hers; my iPaq bid farewell] to her tape deck using an adaptor dawned upon us. Thus, after several minutes of transfering several CDs to her iPaq via my laptop, we have successfully equipped her car with enough trance music to last her 8-hour journey and succesfully made me miss my handheld.
After she left, I met a friend Zaldy and talked about genaealogy of Ipods. Ipods have been growing by multiples and many have already found their way into the appreciative hands of yuppies–except me. Ipods are like robots with generations. And like computers, their descendants become smaller and smaller. I got into an informal lecture on Ipod, Ipod Mini, and Ipod Nano. Yet, in the end, the talk just generated the desire to get one.
For the past few days, I have found myself in mobile telecommunication service providers looking for a new phone. I am looking for a great MP3-abled unit that can satisfy my need for trance music while driving in Bicol [with the loooooonng drive, one will surely need a beat and rythm to stay alive]. Unfortunately, that Sony Ericson W-something requires another plan [I have 2 active mobile lines at the moment].
This leaves a question for the tech-hungry muddled by a menu of varying taste in a techno-resto: Is it a handhel PC, an Ipod, or another phone?
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