You see, I just went through a string of disasters and find myself starting my life over again. New place, new city, new state, new area code, the whole nine yards. The time has come to retire my old cell phone (a cheap nokia 3360 or some such) and get a new cellphone and probably a new cellphone provider. I have 3 options: Get a new basic phone issued to me with my new service or keeping my current non-wearable-usable cellphone. Buy a new phone that can be used as a phone NOW and assimilated into a wearable collective LATER. Buying a phone card that can plug into a wearable of some type (leaning toward just buying a Cappucino/Mocah like this http://www.cappuccinopc.com/mochae7042b.asp and being done with it). You CAN recieve calls on these... right? (if not, then this option is automatically disqualified) What is the current "state of the art" in card based cell phones? Have they gone the way of the dodo? Are manufacturers assuming that people only want data on their laptops these days and that everybody is going to have a seperate phone device? Wouldn't you know it, option 3 is the one that I really really wanna go with. I don't particularly want another piece of hardware to keep up with and keep charged and worry about. If I can consolidate it all into one unit that'll be awesome. Yes, I know I can get cellphones that browse the internet, or pocket PCs that let me make calls, and some will take pictures while others will play MP3s or even games... but they don't run ALL of MY applications in MY preferred environment, and I can't MODIFY it to be the way I WANT. Harumph indeed! Robin (who wants to program whilst listening to MP3s and reading his webcomics and forums and capturing audio and video for blackma^H^H^H^H^H^H^H fun and profit on a powerfull processor with SCADS of storage space. :) Who needs a laptop/pda/cell phone/ipod/camcorder anyway? ) -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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