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I use to have a lady friend who swore by her Franklin Planner. She dragged her heavy black leather binder everywhere and swore that it was the only thing that kept her life orderly, centered and on course (well, that and Chai Latte). She would devotedly and (at least in my chaotic appraisal) obsessively record every appointment and event in her planner, even going so far as to make comments on past entries so she could reconstruct her week at a later point. Despite my affectionate ribbing over her devotion to what seemed to me to be a luddite productivity tool, she even gave one to me. The model she gave me had a pocket built into the binder to hold my Tungsten E (which she insisted on calling a Palm Pilot)…why I will never know. It struck me like selling a Vespa with a rack to carry your Ducati on back. I still have it somewhere, barely touched, buried in a box with remnants of other faded technologies like 8 track tapes and rolodex cards.

It seems however that at this late date, Franklin Planners are coming into the information age thanks to LG.

LG just unveiled a new touchscreen phone, the SU-100, apparently designed around an electronic version of the Franklin Planner. I have no details as to how the software works, but it seems to be a PC/Mobile PIM application designed to replace Outlook or other similar software. No word if it handles emails as well, but the planning features, at least on the PC, look very much like the old school binder, just digitized.

Besides being billed as the first Franklin Planner equipped phone (good lord the irony) the SU-100 features the following specs according to LG:

• 3 inch OLED touchscreen display
• 3M camera
• Built in electronic dictionary
• S-DMB
• Global roaming
• Bluetooth
• Web viewer

The phone is due to be released in Korea by SK Telecom, no price listed as of yet…or if the price includes a three ring binder.

(Source – Aving)

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).