After letting my existing mobile plan, and cell phone, peter down to nothingness (there were only a few days left on the plan), I upgraded to a Smartphone. I’m still wondering if I need this kind of device, but I justified the upgrade in this way: I had been keeping the majority of my data—things like to do’s, appointments, and notes—in a PDA, while using my phone, well, just as a phone. Not elegant, but simple. I’m now hoping I have created both an elegant and simple solution.
This may be my first foray into a Smartphone and 3G network, but I remembered some earlier lessons about syncing, and just learned some new ones about pairing.
I stuck with Palm, and now have a Palm® Centro™, but problems continue to exist in syncing a Smartphone with Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007, as they did when I tried syncing my old PDA (a Palm T|X) with my Windows Vista® machine. In fact, I went through an almost hour-long Live Chat session with a technical support person at Palm. In the end, I uninstalled and re-installed the Palm Desktop software, and uninstalled and re-installed Outlook. The sync did work after that, as the tech guy said it would, but only after I ignored the online suggestions to keep Outlook closed during a synch.
The Centro is supposed to, according to the nice sales folks at Palm, pair with just about any Bluetooth® headset. Sure. Any, except the one I had. My Centro would not talk to (let alone recognize) my existing Jabra® headset. It was a ‘marriage’ not meant to be! In the end, I purchased a Motorola© headset and the pairing worked right off the top; except, I can no longer voice dial directly from the headset. Sigh.
In getting to know my new Centro, I thought that purchasing a case of some kind would be a great idea (after all, one needs to protect one’s investment). Too bad the exact case I wanted wasn’t available in Canada yet. Being a savvy shopper, I hopped over to eBay® (at E’s suggestion) and found one.
So I’m re-training myself, yet again, to be a smarter operator. Next thing you know, I’ll be able to actually answer an incoming call before it goes to voicemail.
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