My New Phone

H. Steele Price, IV — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:02:00 GMT

I couldn't stand it any longer. I broke down and bought a new phone. My Moto v60 has served me well for almost 4 years and I just didn't see any need to replace it.

Now that I am out and about a little more, I have suffered from the lack of email, wanted to go browse a webpage when I had no access, and all the other typical things someone used to being constantly connected to the internet wants to do.

I think one of my driving motivations was that I have moved all my code that touches a server into either webservices or WSE. That being said, It means that I can develop multiple clients at any time for web, smart client, etc. and have access to my data anywhere in the world, provided I have a phone that makes it possible.

I considered getting a wifi account since I almost always have my TabletPC with me, but there are still times when I don't want to have to go looking around for a Starbucks, etc.

Recently my provider lit up my city with a new EV-DO network and it now covers a pretty extensive portion of the US. This made my decision final, I can now have acceptible Broadband access with the provider of my choice, all I needed was the phone.

So Saturday, I marched over to the store and bought one. The Audiovox XV 6600. This phone is really nice, it not only has great reception, it is also a PocketPC which I have also avoided like the plague since I bought a TabletPC, I really didn't see a need for one. Now that it is built into my phone and my Tablet can take to the phone it started to make some sense.

So far I have nothing but praise for both the Phone and my provider as far as what the phone actually does and how it is working. Now I suppose I am going to have to start writing some .Net Compact Framwork application to show off the goodness and salvation of technology that is available today.