[From Bob Castillo from Chicago, Illinois (USA)] Hi Sammy, I've always enjoyed the way your website celebrates our mobile lifestyle and the gadgets that enable it rather than crying and complaining about their shortcomings.
Nevertheless, digital convergence does have its problems. My Palm TX is great, I can listen to music, watch movies, and browse the web seamlessly with one thin, light device. Actually, my TX still needs to use my Treo 680 as a modem when I'm not near a wifi hotspot, so "one device" is a small exaggeration. Still, the TX is the device that I interact with the most. That's probably why I notice its limitations so much. One limitation for the TX is its storage capacity. While its 100MB of memory is plenty for a PDA, as a multimedia device, my TX is sorely limited by its 2GB SD card. Only a fraction of my music library and a handfull of my movies and TV shows will fit in those 2GB. Podcasts, which I love, need to stay at home when I'm out with my TX.
So I tried an experiment recently. I dug up my old LifeDrive, Palm's first attempt at building a device that broke out of its PDA and smartphone molds. With its 4GB hard drive, the LD already has twice the storage of my TX. Throw in the TX's 2GB SD Card and the LD has triple the capacity of my TX. Now, that's still not enough for my entire music library but it is enough for a much bigger chunk of my favorite music, movies, and podcasts. Ultimately, the LifeDrive remains a flawed device: it's slow, buggy, and heavy. But it's still a whole lot of fun.
So I guess that my thought for the day is this: (storage) size matters.
