New iPhone case by Contour - a winner!
A while back I wrote about an iPhone case from Contour Design that I really liked - the iSee. Well, Contour just sent me an updated version of the case, the iSee iPhone V3, which I like even better. You can click on any of these images for a bigger picture.
The iSee is a clear plastic shell case that snaps into a holster. You can snap it in with the screen facing in or out. The case is 20% thinner and 30% lighter than their earlier case. It has a really nice heft in your hand, but does not make the phone too bulky or large. You can really feel the difference between the older and newer versions of the case.
The clip is very secure on the waistband of my pants (I don't use a belt, only suspenders, so this is very important) and can hold the phone in the vertical or horizontal position. Also the holster/clip are very thin, so they hug your hip and the whole assembly does not stick out like some that have thicker clips and sort of dangle out there.
With this iteration of the case Contour has added plugs for the earphone and docking port and push-through buttons for the power, and volume buttons. I find that it is actually easier to use the power and volume buttons with these inserts installed. All the plugs and inserts are removable if you don't like them.
Finally, the belt clip will hold the phone up so that you can use it as a stand to watch movies. As a matter of fact I used it today to watch a movie while eating dinner at my local Chinese restaurant.
I really like this case and suggest you check it out. It costs $29.95 and you can find it at the Contour website here.
I decided to restore my Visor Deluxe to it former state before I got my GPS module for it. I had hard re-set it before installing the mapping and GPS software to safeguard against any possible conflicts on an untested piece of hardware. Everything went well so I thought I would load some software back on. I hard set the Visor and restored the old hotsync name it had. Yes everything went back on, then I loaded the map and GPS software. Today I anticipated this move and bought a couple of cr2032 batteries for my Fellows PDA Pocket Keyboard. I remember I got this for £45 from Argos here in the UK, the had 2 or 3 Springboard modules in stock as well then. The Pocket Keyboard was quite good to use and when I got it set up tonight I thought it will be handy for doing posts in Memo on the Visor and then beam to the 680 for sending.
Softwarewise I had old versions of Bejewelled, Text Twist and Pyramid Solitaire. I also had Palm os3.1 compatible astronomy software so it went back on. I would really love to get Wordsmith back on it but can I find on my laptop, not anymore. LauncherIII is there the daddy of Launcher X so its a familiar interface. I am going to make an effort to use the Visor more since it is in the car now with the GPS. If I am able to get a Visorphone I would loveto try to use it instead of the 680 to see how I'd get on.
I think everyone should blow the dust of their old devices and see how they get on. It will probably surprise you what you do and how you do things. I always get annoyed with those who say that the Palm OS has not progressed much lately and this may show you that an older Palm connected to a phone by cable, IR or bluetooth can still hold its own. After all how much has the wheel changed in the past 1,000 years.
I returned to work today for the first time in 3 weeks. I've been sick and on paid leave. Well I got a great surprise when I walked in to work today. I was locked out of all of my work's systems. It took talking to about 7 different people on the phone and 3 hours to gain access again. THANK GOD I had my Centro with my though. Through out the whole time, I was juggling between text messaging people and playing a few games.
Well, the change over to Windows Mobile is actually going very well. 
[From Craig
Summerville, SC] Verizon just beat out Google and all other bidders by plunking down $9.63 billion for a single big chunk of the 700 MHz spectrum, which becomes available to network providers early next year. They also won bids on smaller regional pieces of spectrum. Though the Federal Government says that any companies using the newly-available spectrum must make it an "open" network, this cannot be construed as anything but bad for consumers. With an established giant in the industry winning the bids for significant pieces of the available spectrum, and therefore the right to administer it largely as they see fit, the status quo is not likely to change. I was really hoping that Google or some other upstart (to the mobile network business, anyway) would shake-up the industry a bit, resulting in more competitive pricing (especially in data plans), fewer hidden contract "gotchas," and improved consumer satisfaction, owing to better customer support. Oh well.
For you who have missed this weekend news on the most buzzed device: HTC Shift, this is a “very short” recap of that aforementioned device. Although I have doubt at first to cover HTC Shift on PalmAddict, because it doesn’t have function to make phone calls, and can’t be categorized into mobile companion either because it is an UMPC. Yes, you read that right: HTC Shift does not do phone calls for you. But it can retrieve & send emails and text messaging. Here are the quick full specs: HSDPA / CDMA2000 EVDO, weighted at 800gr, 800x480 pixels on 7 inch screen with 16M colors, touch screen with Origami Experience v2.0 software, QWERTY keyboard, 1GB RAM, 128MB ROM, 40/80GB HDD, Intel Stealey 800MHz processor, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.0, 1 USB 2.0, 1 VGA camera, SDIO card slot, VGA port, Windows Vista Business OS, SnapVue and fingerprint scan. I recommend reading James Kendrick’s 
If you're an organizer or you're the person in charge for making schedule for the whole team, then you know how frustrating it is to do this job. Sometimes you wish there should be some kind of telepathy installed within our heads, so everyone can tell you when is the spare time they have to make it for the next meeting. The most irritating experience for event organizer or for a "scheduler" is when you have to go back and forth asking each one of the attendees, well if there's only 3-5 persons then it's alright; but how about above 5 persons? I think you get the picture, right?
There have been many web-based tools now that offer this scheduling service, but one particular has caught my attention; called 
This morning, World Clock's alarm woke me up. My palm accompanied me to the bathroom where I checked the weather using kMeteo while I shaved. As usual, my T|X slipped into it's hard case and slid into my front pocket for the drive to work. At the office, I slipped my T|X out of it's case and snapped it into the stand I bought from Lee262 - Online and it automatically fired up Palmary PhotoFrame, which acts as a nice electronic photo-frame and desk clock while my palm is docked. At 9:29, my palm dutifully bleeped to remind me of our daily "stand up" meeting for our group. I undocked and walked into the aisle for the meeting, arriving just as the meeting was scheduled to start at 9:30. I fired up the Tasks app so I could make notes about any specific actions I needed to take care of, and used MemoDA as a popup when I needed to make note of a new job code for time-keeping purposes. Meeting over, I returned to my desk, re-docked my palm, and proceeded to take care of my work for the day. At lunch time, I flicked the sync button on the dock to make sure all my appointments and contacts were updated, then undocked and slipped my T|X back into it's case as I headed out for lunch. Grabbing a quick gyro sandwich (yumm), I popped open my pda and cranked up MobiPocket for a little eBook reading (I'm currently reading James Hogan's "Inherit the Stars" from Baen Books) while I polished off my fries. Back at the office, my pda went back into the dock for photo/clock duty for the rest of the afternoon (thank goodness, no more meetings today, although if there had been one, my T|X would have happily chirped to remind me in time to grab any materials I needed beforehand). Six o'clock rolls around and my palm goes back into it's case, and back into my pocket for the ride home. At home, I would normally play a little Patience while fixing dinner, but it's Thursday so the kids are coming over for "Survivor" and pizza. After the show, my wife likes to watch "The Apprentice." I don't, so out comes my faithful T|X for a little web browsing. At bedtime, my pda lands on the night table (after a little more eBook reading), ready to serve as flashlight if I need to get up in the middle of the night. World Clock stands by to wake me in the morning once again.
The nice thing about my TX is its versatility and its storage capacity. I am in the process of earning my Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. Part of my training requires me to learn various patterns and techniques of form as well as certain weapons. Proper execution of form is very important. What helps me in doing this is my TX. I take video of my instructor as he performs the complete or certain parts of the pattern. I then convert the video with Kinoma Producer on my PC and save it onto my trusty TX. Now when I am at home, or away, I can pull out my TX and reference the patterns using Kinoma player. Then I practice and practice and paractice until the pattern becomes second nature and I can move on to more demanding material. Another nice outcome of this is I will always have a video library of patterns and techniques to refer too. I can store several videos easily on a 1 or 2 gig card. Kam sa hamnida 
The big screen smartphones phenomena with hi-speed internet connections has been great, but since the "death" of my Palm TX, I have had a hard time picking out a new device that is right for me... After a lot of thought, I have come to the realization that the device I want just isn't being made... yet all the technology required to make it is available.... 
It seems like only yesterday that people were complaining that there were no big screen touch sensitive smartphones around.... Then along came the apple iphone and then the penny dropped for the handset industry as everyone rushed out with their big shiny touch screens. The latest to impress is the LG LH2300. A very nice 3 inch touch screen (800x400 pixels), GSM/3G, 3 megapixel cam with anti-shake and face recognition, a second front facing cam presumably for videocalls (ala Skype?), Bluetooth 2.0, a jog wheel for fast, easy webpage scrolling and a micro SD slot. At the moment it is slated for release in Korea, but here's hoping that they will push it out internationally sooner rather than later. Caught this over at 
Used the alarm to wake up, as I do every morning, and checked the weather. Made a whole bunch of phone calls regarding deliveries for my new garage and used the calculator to figure out how much I was paying out to suppliers today. When we finished work for the day used the camera to take a picture and then sent it off to my wife and daughter so that they can keep track of progress. Went out to dinner by myself (my wife's away on a business trip) and watched Episode 5 of Season 3 of Startrek Enterprise. Will watch Episode 6 tonight when I get into bed.
I am like probably many current Palm users, I am ready to try out the iPhone 2.0 and see what it can do. But I have a bunch of Palm apps that I rely on on my Treo so I am wondering which developers will cross over. Here's my wish list:
Google powered Android phones are on their way. From current rumors it looks like HTC is going to beat Samsung to the punch and be the first to release an Android OS based smartphone. The word is that the HTC phone will be called the "Dream" and will be 5x3 inches in size (does that mean big screen?) and have a pull out keyboard. More details over at 
Splashshopper is one of my favorite programs. I use it not only for shopping but to keep track of movies I want to see, books I want to read, clothes I need to buy for me or the kids, prices at takeout places, lists of supplies for my special needs daughter, lists of travel needs, my daily routines and I am still coming up with uses every day. It has got to be one of my most versatile programs. I especially like that it has customizable fields, icons and that you can customize your view. I also love that it has a desktop program to go with it. I highly recommend it for anyone who likes to make & keep lists!
Text Twist from Astraware is another highly addictive and user friendly game which this time looks at stimulating your brain; of great help when you find that your brain has switched off during the day! The game starts with a display of 6 letters which you must re-arrange in order to create 3 to 6 letter words.
A few months ago Palm started to talk about the mobile companion. They
would launch a new market segment with there new product called the
Foleo. At first people didn't get the idea but at the end of the start
of bringing out the Foleo, people start to get it but it was to late.
But others based on Palms original idea started making small compact
devices just to help people out to view there mail, surf the web, edit
some documents. Things that didn't need powerful laptops. Here came
the eeePC looking all original. Then the Redfly saying we are the
first. But all of theses have a cost, Foleo was at 600 dollars, Redfly
at 500 and eeePC at 400. But I tell you now that before all of theses
mobile companions and before Palms great eye opener concept, there was
one very cheap software solution, yes not hardware, that you can
install on your Windows Laptop and your PalmOS device and have this
mobile companion features much like the Redfly at the price of 49
dollars. And has existed for sometime now and has been talked about
here, your truly Palmaddict site. Its call PDAReach. Its a app that
makes a connection between your Palm and your computer. Everything you
have on your palm will be seen on your big screen, be it a monitor or
a laptop screen. If its a palm treo or centro you will be able to
receive calls and send SMSs. This apps makes everything much larger
then that you are used to on your mobile device or you can see it at
the same resolution. The connection is made through your hotsync
cable. Now think about it, a Redfly has no Operating system, nor a
processor and costs 500 dollars. Take a eeePC which you can install
Windows XP lite with a Celeron 800 mhz like chip and install PDAReach
and you get two worlds, a laptop with full Operating system and a
connection to your Palm with all its apps and documents for 450
dollars, much like what the foleo was going to be. So Redfly you will
have to lower your price because making a mobile connection software
is more cheaper then buying your plastic keyboard with a screen.
