| Let's face it, handhelds are like love and marriage | | | | it's all packaged up with a service contract that |
| you can't live with 'em and you can't live without | | | | won't let me out unless I upgrade for each new |
| 'em! Aha you say, I do not depend on my | | | | tech advance and add another year to the |
| handheld. I can do without my cell phone, my iPod, | | | | contract. |
| my Palm pilot. Really? Frankly, I doubt it! I love my | | | | I suspect I will get in to similar straitjackets |
| handhelds but there is a real problem other than | | | | wherever I turn. Surely those handheld PC's must |
| too much dependence and that's technology. | | | | be the same. PDA's as well, right? |
| Yes technology because it's moving so fast, I | | | | Then I stumble over a piece on the use of a new |
| can't keep up with it. Take Apple's iPod as an | | | | handheld cardiology device that an eminent |
| example. Should I lay out the $349 for the | | | | cardiologist believes will replace the stethoscope |
| Apple's latest iPod? It's rated at 80Gb will contain | | | | as the primary instrument of choice to perform |
| up to 20,000 songs, up to 25,000 photos, and up | | | | the initial POC (point of care) screening for cardiac |
| to 100 hours of video or any combination of each. | | | | abnormalities. Thinking about that made me realize |
| This will allow me to browse movies on the | | | | that the role of handhelds is with us to stay, that |
| iTunes Store, download the ones I want and sync | | | | the existing technology will be continuously |
| them to my new iPod. Ditto for TV episodes, | | | | updated and ultimately replaced and more |
| new games, songs, audiobooks, and free | | | | importantly that that is what is important. I need |
| podcasts. How can you turn that down? But I | | | | to embrace it and to celebrate it. |
| know Apple will have another new wonder in a | | | | Phew! Now that I've got that off my chest, I can |
| few short months that will make all this totally | | | | work on learning more about what is really |
| obsolete and then where will I be? What a | | | | happening on the front line of technology and get |
| quandary! Should I buy or not? | | | | with it. Finally says my life partner! |
| Cell phones. Well it's the same there right? Only | | | | |