{"id":10851,"date":"2007-06-14T20:49:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T03:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/06\/14\/timing-is-everything-9.html"},"modified":"2007-06-14T20:49:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T03:49:18","slug":"timing_is_everything_9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/14\/timing_is_everything_9.html","title":{"rendered":"Timing is everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 237px\" alt=\"Treo 650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/treo650.jpg\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>So the Phone Gods have heard about the Crackberry plan and are obviously pleased by it.&nbsp;&nbsp; And so are pushing me to get rid of my Treo 650 sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>Or else my Treo heard about the plans and is sulking.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> The camera has started taking blurrier-than-usual shots.<\/li>\n<li> The phone has taken to dropping its connection to Cingular.&nbsp; Persistently.&nbsp; Can&#8217;t keep it up (so to speak) for more than a minute or two.&nbsp; Which makes my cell phone more like a PDA.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The situation is probably not helped by my having dropped my Treo onto the ground a few times recently.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll probably go and pick up the Blackberry tomorrow, I think.&nbsp; Still massaging my Contacts, and it will me probably being without the Exchange push over the weekend, but I can have that turned on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll miss my Treo.&nbsp; It&#8217;s been, ironically, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/13\/my_new_toy.html\" target=\"_blank\">almost exactly two years<\/a> I&#8217;ve had it, yet it feels like a lot longer than that (part of which is that I&#8217;ve had a Palm device for a number of years before that).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Phone Gods have heard about the Crackberry plan and are obviously pleased by it.&nbsp;&nbsp; And so are pushing me to get rid of my Treo 650 sooner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10867,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/crackberry.html","url_meta":{"origin":10851,"position":0},"title":"Crackberry","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Jun-07 6:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Continued poking at the whole Crackberry thing.\u00a0 Learned the \"standard\" model we get (the 8700 -- most likely I'd be getting the 8700c to minimize disruption in service). 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