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Originally Posted by mores
I guess he can't walk and chew bubble gum at the same time, then.
Forget about driving and listening to music.
Hello?
Sure, there are purists who like to carry around a cellphone for communication, a reader for reading, an iPod for listening to music, a camera for photos, and a bunch of paperback books because "they smell nice" or "they feel nice".
But aren't converged devices the future?
The iPod advanced from a walkman to a videomachine to a PDA, eReaders now surf the net and tiny cellphones take better pictures than my old SLR ?
In german there is the expression "an egg-laying wool-milk-pig", which means something like a swiss army knife - one thing to do it all. This does not exist. Dedicated cameras take better pictures, a TV has better video, and a PS3 has better games than one of the new converged devices. But then again, sometimes you just want one device to do a lot of things and you accept the mediocrity (?) of the results.
I am no professional photographer ... but I can take a snapshot of the car parked behind me, so that if I see a scratch on my bumper, I know who probably did it. I can read a book on my device, and I can read emails on it.
Distraction? That sounds like "Speeds of more than 30MpH will cause permanent brain damage" or "640K is more than enough".
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I 100% agree with all your comments from top to bottom.
I love my dedicated devices - each does its job perfectly. My 505 is simply perfect - I even love the software on the 505 since because of libprs500 I have everything organized into collections.