July 28, 2004

Crackberries

A week or so into it, I really like my Treo. There are things about it I'd change (larger keyboard and a scroll wheel on the side, for starters). Overall, it makes my life much easier.

That being said, I can't say that it always makes life easier for the person who is stuck in the office receiving numerous chopped up missives from the road warrior who is sending them. Typing on these things isn't easy, but if you add to the mix someone who is a bad typist on a full keyboard, you have a recipe for garbage.

Case in point: my boss, who I adore, has a crackberry (so called because she has a physical dependency on this gadget). I once sent her an e-mail and received the following response:

"Tx. Hi yu si on confcall 330$"

I'm not making this up. That is exactly what the e-mail message said. After a few minutes of squinting at my screen and thinking about it, I realized she meant to say, "Thanks. Why don't you sit in on the conference call at 3:30?" While all these handheld devices definitely help us all communicate more easily, they don't necessarily make us better communicators.

Posted by Kitty at July 28, 2004 10:41 AM

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