innocent_lex

I checked out my usual tech blogs today just to see what's going on out there in the world of techiness. Ooh, what's that? Sony are bringing out new ereaders? With better screens and longer battery life and more shininess? Ooooohhhhh.

*smacks head* 

Yeah, it's a Pavlovian thing, absolutely no question. I've had my ereader for about six months now. Six whole months. There is no reason I could possibly justify buying a new one just because it's shinier (see previous post for all kinds of reasons). But my brain makes that leap without me even noticing these days. I'm so glad I have a policy now of adding things to wishlists and coming back two weeks later when my brain's had time to recover from the rush of endorphins.

I've had a couple of calls from Vodafone telling me I can now upgrade my phone. Firstly, that went awfully fast! Secondly, I was having a look around at various options and if I'm going to bother upgrading it will be to the HTC Desire, which comes out next week or the week after. I do like my current WinMo phone, but I've been reviewing the apps that I use at the moment, plus thinking about what I'll use in the future and also what's most important to me now that I have a separate ebook reader. When it comes down to it, I use the phone for my calendar and reminders, shopping lists, internet, photos and videos, email, texting, updating LJ when on the move, and making phone calls. My use of Word has plummeted since I got the Sony reader.

Benefits of the new one? It has a bigger and better screen, which is good for most of the things I do, better call quality, better wifi, plus as an Android phone I can get hold of free google maps navigation which is currently in beta (which would certainly sort out my recurring question about whether I should get a satnav which I'd only need to use twice a year). I need to still investigate things like sync with Outlook, syncing files back and forth, picture / video formats supported, etc, but so far it's looking good. Need to actually see one in the wild, play with it, look at what it can really do that fills my requirements, and tick off everything on my 'must have' list before I actually commit to an upgrade. Also need to find out what the heck Vodafone are going to do to the awfully pretty UI (they did some icky things to my current phone that I can't change).