toys!
So my cell phone has been horrendous lately. It drops calls, the spring holding it open (it's a flip phone) barely functions, the wall charger no longer works, etc.. I had the phone for over a year and a half, but I would have expected an expensive Motorola phone to last longer. It was time to buy a new one.
As many of you know, I carry a Palm Pilot (Tungsten T5) in my pocket. Its case doubles as my wallet, so it's always on me. I use it a TON for organizing things. The only issue is that it's really freaking big to be carrying around all the time. So, what I've done is buy a Palm Treo 650 for my cell phone;
I carry so much less stuff now, it's great. At first I was thinking I was going to keep the Tungsten as a media player, but I remembered that I have a perfectly good iPaq being used as a remote control in the family room that can play movies. The iPaq has a smaller screen with worse resolution, but better battery life. Since I've been watching movies optimized for a 256MB card, two 512MB movies should look just fine on the iPaq and I can regain a few hundred bucks from the Tungsten.
I've got my bluetooth headset, cradle, rubber skin, car charger, pen stylus, etc.. rocking. This thing is absolutely wonderful. I recommend it to anyone who has the cash to lay down on one. Make sure you'll actually use the Palm features first though. Or, of course, you could lay down the extra $200 and get the Samsung SCH-i730. Which has 802.11b, and a bigger screen, but runs Windows Mobile.