Rachael Herron

(R.H. Herron)

New Toy

Say hello to my little friend.

Palmtreo

Of course, I only got one (the silver one). I suppose I only need one, eh? I spent pretty much all of last weekend playing with it. Thank god Lala geeks out as hard as I do — she got my old phone when I upgraded, so we spent hours just mucking about in the new programs. So Palm Treo 600 users: Any tips? Programs that I should get? Any info on free ringtones? (Why are they so hard to find for this phone? Dude.)

It’s amazing. It’s now carrying my full schedule, and my work overtime balances, and my phone book. It takes photos. It tells me what time it is, everywhere in the world (why that one thrills me so much, I don’t know. But it does). I bought a little fold-out keyboard, and it’s carrying in memo form the writing I’m working on right now. So in my little black purse, I can fit my writing AND a sock-in-progress. I’m dying here. Watch me fan myself.

I lurve me some technology.

Did I mention it takes photos?

Miss Idaho:

Tongue

Adah in low light:

Adahyellow

And in really low light in a local dive bar:

Graf

That’s my favorite graffiti, ever.

Okay, back to playing with my device….

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  2. Leslie says

    Oh, honey,
    Just did that story on geek knitting. You need this…KnitAble–to track your inventory, needles, yarn, etc., and Sweater Wizard, so you can download patterns for easy on-the-go paperless knitting.
    Oh, and if you have GPS capabilities, you can map directions to your favorite LYSes.
    Enjoy!

  4. Micky says

    It’s always nice getting a new phone. But it is also nice when you get the hand-me-down phone. After all it is new to you, and just as much fun.
    🙂

  5. Steph says

    Wanties. Then I wouldn’t have to carry palm and phone and camera and I would have room in my purse for other goodies like yarn.

  6. sandy says

    Watch you don’t get a sore neck. I just got a 650 after my 300 flipped its lid. I can check email from anywhere on webmail but can’t seem to compose.

  7. Mary-Heather says

    Glad someone mentioned the knitting software… think of it… knitting software- in your PURSE! Right there with your sock-in-progress and writing. Fantastic.

  10. Em says

    Ooh, neato! And thanks for reminding me that I need to upgrade my own silly-ass phone. Camera phone, here I come. Woot!

  15. laurel says

    I feel you – I just got a new Palm Zire yesterday! (didn’t jump to a Treo because I like my LG phone and it actually freaks me out a bit to have everything in one device!) My Palm m515 bit the dust a while ago and I finally realized that I missed it the most while knitting! I love, love, love CountAble – don’t know how I ever kept track of my rows and patterns before. Have fun!

  17. Stella says

    Awwww… Adah! So, when are you going to spin that cool roving behind her? New toys are always good. I’m still jealous of your flipscreencamera.

  18. Theresa says

    Oh, I loves me some Palm toys. (I just adopted a tapwave Zodiac into the family) I second the CountAble program. Very handy!

  19. Jessamyn says

    I adore my Treo 600! I installed P Tunes and bought a 1 gigabyte SD card, and use it as my MP3 player (1 gig holds 15+ CD’s worth of music). I also installed Vindigo and the Zagat survey (you have to pay for that one) to give me maps, pestaurant rec’s, shopping advice, public restroom locales, etc. I installed Avantgo and signed up to get the NY Times, and other daily newspapers which I sync to daily. PacDude is a pacman like video game. My husband recently found me a *pink* silicone cover from palmone.com , so now mine is a very girly pink PDA/phone/camera/MP3 player handheld device. I call it my transponder.

  20. mrspilkington says

    wow, that takes great photographs! of course, you’ve got some great subjects there. and that grafitti is hilarious.
    a little late on the commenting, but…mary maxim’s hoedown is amazing!!!

  22. Alissa says

    I forgot to mention that I have serious lust for a 650 to replace my aging Clie, but our local cellular store said that they haven’t been able to get the 650’s yet. The development device that I had was the first one they had seen. I was sad to have to send it back and now I want my own. WAHHHHHHHHH…. I like the pictures your 600 took, I may have to go that route soon if the 650’s don’t show.

  24. Kate says

    We get to upgrade our phones next week and I’m SO SO tempted by the Palm 650 that Verizon offers. Do you find yours too bulky to talk on or to carry around??

  25. Meg says

    Wow – holy bells & whistles, Batman! Gonna knit that baby a protective handspun cozy?
    Really good pics from a phone. Wow, again. That graffiti – the illicit side of the ALA ;o), so funny. Depending on what you’re reading, it might make for an interesting experience.

  27. melissa says

    My hubby has one – uber-gadget-geek that he is. He LOVES it. So, Knitable’s been suggested. I recommend:
    Bejeweled. Most addidictive game ever. Great for waits.
    eReader (ereader.com). (I read a lot of ebooks…)

  29. Marie says

    I’ve had a Treo 600 for over a year and love it! It’s a lot more convenient than juggling my old Handspring (the former name for Palm One) Visor and crappy old phone. I use Wordsmith for Word documents but you can get other programs for handling word docs. Countable is great and there’s a free palm version of Adobe acrobat which is v useful for pdf knitting patterns.

  30. :) Nicole says

    I love my palm zire 71. My camra, in comparison, sucks!! I have been lusting for one of those. I do need a new phone…PocketTunes for mp3s, Bejeweled 2 for my fav game, Adobe Acrobat. Ebooks are great, too. ereader.com is my fav. I need to check out the knitable and countable. 🙂

  31. marea says

    i just got my treo 650 yesterday – can anybody out there just kind of get me started – i’m not sure what i should work on first – thanks