Strange Attachment

Pic­ture taken from here

Yes­ter­day I couldn’t find my N810.  The hunt started on Sun­day night and was reini­ti­ated yes­ter­day morn­ing.   No N810, nowhere in sight.   As the night waned on yes­ter­day I renew the hunt.  It was like I was look­ing for the great pump­kin Char­lie Brown. Even­tu­ally it was found where you always expect ot find these things, behind a cush­ion on the couch.

This device (even when I don’t use it) has become so inte­gral to my daily life that I flipped out more over that miss­ing then I have or miss­ing a wal­let or cell phone for an extended period.   It may be the cost of the device, but I think it’s more the func­tion­al­ity and free­dom it gives me (I’m sure it didn’t help that I was in the mid­dle of Cory Doctorow’s Lit­tle Brother E-Book).

It’s strange since i could go for weeks with­out see­ing my ipod or my Palm TX, two things that this has replaced.   Now it’s work­ing on becom­ing the exten­sion of myself that fills the gap when I’m away from a lap­top or computer.

I’m quite happy with it.

June 3, 2008 | Creeva | Tags: , , , , , , | View Comments
  • I have been bitten by the bug as well, though I started with a cheap 770 to try it out. Now I am on the hunt for a well priced N810. My 770 wifi radio seems to not work most of the time. Not sure why, so I have been without it for a few weeks and it sucks. The laptop is too big and too short of battery life for hauling around the house and yard. Plus I like the way with always on I can receive messages from friends while asleep and it wakes me up (with no noisy fan running all night)
  • My only problem now is that I've been using hte GPS to track wher eI've been - and if I forget to either plugin the N810 at night or leave maemo mapper running - it kills my batteries. This can make me a sad panda.
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