I have not yet gotten myself a smart phone, and I don’t think I will anytime soon. I’ve seen many of the Androids and I-Phones out there, very impressive. They do all kinds of things; view pictures, take pictures, surf the Internet, figure out your location with GPS, tell you where restaurants and other stuff is in your vicinity, record voices, view and send e-mail and text messages, on and on. But you know what? Aside from the e-mail and texting, these smart phones remind me of Leatherman tools. I.e., those all-in-one things that look like a mutant pair of pliers; they have all sorts of mini-tools folding out from them. Akin to a Swiss knife on steroids! <\/p>\n
But as with the Leatherman, almost none of the tools on a smart phone are the best possible forms of that tool. The I-Phone screens, although getting bigger, are still really too small for long-term reading or serious internet research. They are still kind of clunky as phones, sort of like talking into a piece of toast (an old Motorola Razr is still a better design for a pocket phone). As cameras and voice recorders they are OK, but if you really want a good picture or voice recording, you still need to get a camera or voice recorder with a good stereo microphone attached. If you want to view photos digitally, an I-Pad with its bigger screen is still the better option. About the only thing smart phones really shine at is sending short messages quickly. <\/p>\n
As with the Leatherman, they have their place. If you need to travel light, if you don’t have room to pack all the right tools for every occasion, then a smart phone in your pocket can be very useful. But for me . . . I’ll keep my little flip-out cell phone, along with my digital camera and voice recorder. And as to tools, I have a decent little tool kit in the house and partly in my car trunk. But no Leatherman! I’m just an old-school kind of guy, obviously. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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