I had pretty much decided that I was going to get a physically identical replacement for my existing device, the AT&T 8525, which is now over four years old. The plan was, I’d just use that for another year or so, and see how the handheld market plays out. Since they’re obsolete in the marketplace, I had hoped to pick up a new 8525 that had been over-produced for maybe 50 bucks.
No luck. Obsolete though they may be, they are apparently still popular. I can get a new one alright, but it would cost over *200* bucks. 50 bucks can get me a used one, but without being able to physically inspect it in advance, there’d be no way to know if it had many of the physical aging problems that my current one is having (and they’re getting worse).
So yesterday, I decided to bite the bullet, and buy a new one. Microsoft has effectively abandoned this market, so that was out of the question, leaving iPhone and Droid. Of the two, Droid has more market momentum, and that along with other things resulted in me selecting that. Karen has a late model AT&T Droid, Samsung I(something), with a 4.3 inch screen, which she likes, and when I took a cursory look at it once, I liked it too.
So, I’m going down to the AT&T store today to get one. God only knows how annoying the conversion process is going to be, but my current one is physically on its last legs. It’s been repeatedly dropped, baptized, and had the charger/data cable ripped out roughly by the cats. It’s not surprising that it’s dying. What’s surprising is that it still lives at all!
But then, that’s always been typical of all my machines, for some reason. Various systems on Behemoth seem to be healing. An electric window that hadn’t worked for decades, now works. The heater is coming back to life (good timing!).
But it’s time for my old faithful PDA to be put out to pasture.
(Sigh)
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