the successor to the dopod 900

recently got into the groove of scaling down the tech that "need" and so i dumbed down my dopod 900 for a spanking new Samsung i320N. after reading so much about going back to analog, i came to the conclusion that it would probably never work with me.

being in the profession i'm in, there are advantages to having all 1600+ of my contacts with me and i could not find a phone that could contain this number of contacts (plus show the addresses). thus, i decided on a smartphone, the i320N.

this lil fella is just 11.5mm thick and weighs in at a mere 95g. it's probably anorexic compared to my dopod 900. true that it doesn't have wifi, 3G, VGA screen, etc. but i guess there is a kinda liberation when you are a lil less "in touch".

so i'm currently back to "tricking" my device out but then again, there's not much you can do with a smartphone and i guess that's a good thing considering that there will less fiddling and "optimization". just adding a PIM that's a lil more functional than the inbuilt one and also an actual note taking program (which i'm still shocked that it's missing outta the box!!)

otherwise.. i'm pretty happy with this phone that doesn't create an unsightly bulge in my pants/jeans whatever! the QWERTY keyboard is also a joy to use. all in all, a fully functional (at least to my standard) phone in a really small package!