Posted on Sun - January 8, 2006

Planning the telephone solution


One of the disadvantages of combining a PDA with a cell phone is that skin oils and sweat gets on the display screen. This is a problem even with regular cell phones. With the Treo 700p I'll probably use a screen protector like I do with my m515.

The easy answer is just not to use the cell phone except anything as a speaker phone. But I find cell phones annoying enough, and I am not going to share both sides of my conversation with everyone in earshot.

Plus of course, that wouldn't be a geek solution.

So I am looking very seriously at the Plantronics Voyager 510. I figure it will take just about as much effort to pull it out of the pouch, put it on my ear, and press the button as it would to answer a cell phone.

I don't intend to hand out my cell phone number to everyone. In fact, I don't intend to hand it out at all.

Computers have long since gotten to the point where they can screen your calls. And that is where PhoneValet comes in. It upgrades my phone capability, giving me voice mail, recording my calls, and if the call is from someone I have designated, it will either send me an SMS or an email telling me.

That makes a lot of sense to me.

In case you haven't noticed, I really don't like phones. Maybe it is just the idea that I can be summoned by a machine. This would let me put the phone under my control.

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