Sep 26 2008
My new toy
Well… it’s not REALLY a toy… honest! It’s going to help me to stay organized and in touch and productive and …and… and…
Well, it will! But it’s a pretty cool little gadget too 
My red blackberry curve came today … had to go to Barrie to pick it up … stopped at the college and picked up my (I am SUCH a ~star~) scholarship letters as well. But then I went down to the UPS office and picked up my blackberrry.
So far, I’m liking it … barely scratched the surface of what it can do … haven’t even made a phone call yet… but I did get it set up to grab my email for me; that’s cool. Need to go in and change the settings on my university account to quit forwarding to my main account… means that with both on the BB, I get two copies of everything going through there, which I don’t need now that I have the BB.
Aside from its use as a phone-I-can-actually-hear-people-on (my Nokia SUCKED) and for getting my email, I’m looking forward to having my calendar on hand again … that was really what I used the most on my lifeDrive before I killed it 
I NEED an electronic organizer! And now I have one again.
And it will be great to have the maps application too - assuming I ever figure that all out. I am, for a computer programmer type, often remiss at figuring out all the ~stuff~ my toys can do … I never did learn to use speed dial on any of my previous cells, for example. But I will learn the stuff I need to know for the calendar and the mapping functions…. and perhaps I might even figure out the speed dial thing this time.
New toys, what fun.
I have never had a PDA. I wonder if I’m missing something, not that my current phone doesn’t do most PDA functions I’d need anyhow.
everything I need is on my laptop …but SO much easier to have it on PDA… and to have phone that works too … really fed up with the Nokia… could never HEAR anyone I was talking to …and WAY awkward to use for text messaging