And while I’m at it, I have to say I am sick of using a mouse. I only have two hands and the mouse is slowing me down. It’s also time for a new desktop user interface that allows two handed use or we will be forced to evolve into three-handed people.

You lost me on that one. I don’t like mice, either — I use a thumb trackball at home — but that leaves me a free hand to do something else. If you have a two-handed PC interface, you won’t have a free hand, so that would make a third hand more necessary.

What am I missing? Why does a one-handed interface make three hands necessary?

Steve

my first winmo phone was an audiovox smt in 2005 running 2003se that i got the day it was released. i was wowed – look at all these cool things it can do in such a small form factor. awesome!

then i got the cingular blackjack1 running winmo 2005 the week it came out. i was wowed. i loved the keyboard, and the side mounted scroll wheel and back buttons that also act as shortcuts. the screen was bigger. it was thin. and the sleek non-reflective surface was classy and cool. when the winmo 6.0 for the device became available, i added it. hmmm…. the new winmo os didn’t give me the ‘thrill bump’ i was hoping for… actually, it felt a bit like i’d been oversold its benefits by enthusiastic bloggers.

when i first read about what we now call the samsung epix, i thought this is the device for me. i want to get on the touch-screen bus too! and a real keyboard works fine for me. but when i tried it, i found the epix to be… confusing and i hate hate hate the reflective plastic. what i learned is how i love being able to just use one hand to do things while the other is free to hold a bag, steering wheel, pint of beer… touch screens are nice because they are bigger, but the touching part is not doing it for me. :-)

i looked at the fuze. wow, that was so s l o w even after i rebooted it. slow slow slow. and it requires two handed use to type anything unless you have big hands.

and winmo 6.1 – it seems pretty much the same as 6.0, which didn’t really bowl me over…

so, i still have my blackjack. i’m still watching foreign tv and radio streaming via the internet. i love fring (though the recent update is buggy and crashes) skyfire is cool, but pocket internet explorer is fine (i must have over 200 links i dust off regularly), i still use my stereo bluetooth headset to have conversations or listen to music. i still upgrade google maps and like that (though the recent upgrade is buggy and crashes). and i’m still syncing my contacts, email and calendar, which is what i wanted most with my audiovox, untill i discovered i could do all these other cool multi-media things!

after to consumer reports article a month ago or so, i’ve been tempted to get a blackjack2. the extra momory would be nice. and i guess i can live without the side mounted scroll wheel and bach button.

i’m definately not a registry tweeker. and i don’t expect i should need to be. i want things to be faster, smoother and easier without resorting to registry edits.

so, i still read tons about new devices hoping i’ll to be wowed again. but the thrill is gone. maybe the pre will bring enough new elements together in a good looking package to tempt me.

i guess i’m a power user who is looking for more fun things to do in a more powerful standard device. wish me luck you two-handed touch screen people using your new finger-print magnet devices!!

I tried a few phones and said, OK, my cellphone will be for phoning, my Axim will be for mobile computing. I spend my time polishing my “all in one” and I do love it so.
I wait for the new thing and nothing new appears. I buy a Blackberry Pearl, it is cute and pink — but very plain. I win a Zune. Why do I need it? I don’t. But it is pink and has 30 gigs of songs and book downloads so I don’t have to change my Axim cards. But it really is just a fraction of my of my Axim, handheld joy. I buy a Lenovo netbook. It is cute and fire engine red and now I can travel and surf and synch my Axim. But it falls short, big time. I follow CES and say, yes, yes, finally Palm will pull it together. I don’t know yet.

I wish I was in tech, instead of a Psychotherapist. I help people with emotional distress all day. It feels good. Then I sign on to mobile computing sites and read and follow the next big thing all night. There has not been any next big thing in a long while. Yes, I am bored.
Msliberty

But, above all devices, the one I really liked (by far) was the Treo 750.
It’s fast, it’s clean, it has some small useful add-ons, it has perfect single hand support, it’s stable, it’s good for development use, and even though it’s soooo thick – it feels the best in the hand. Seriously.

If it had WiFi I would have still used it.
Since it doesn’t have Wifi – I keep it on the table next to my laptop for great memories :-) waiting to put my hands on a Treo Pro.