Mobile Tech the New Old Fashioned Way

With my first real test of this new device being aweekend away, I can say that pretty much everythingthat I had need of was met.What were some of the things that I was able to do?Well, all of the usual Smartphone tricks. Of course,the two biggest noticable differences are having theqwerty keyboard as well as the screen being easilyfour times larger than my flip phone. Oh, and beingable to run various applications such as Word andExcel docs, streaming my favorite podcasts, watching avideo from my SD card and surfing the Net and checkingmy mail were all pretty much a breeze.One of the things that flatout impressed me was my newability to log into my Blogger account and post ormake changes! I have to no avail before so this was abiggie!So, what exactly do I mean by the New Old FashionedWay? Well, believe it or not, my new device isnt aTreo or a Q or even a Blackberry. this device is a2003 Hitachi G1000 running Windows Mobile 2002! Itruns only on the Sprint network that I happen to beon.Even better, I paid $65 for it!Now nothing personal, but all of these posts aboutusing the latest and greatest devices have been fun toread but my specialty is finding apps and servicesthat do more for less. I followed and researched thisdevice on Ebay for three or four months before gettingone.Now the drawback and why nobody knows what this deviceis. It is by todays standards, huge! At just shy of 6high and just over 3 wide, it is definitely a brick.If there is another problem I would say it is WindowsMobile 2002. I am not saying it isnt usable but if thenew WM5 apps are what are catching your eye, you willhave a problem with this. If you need a device fortesing the Sprint Smartphone arena, I cant believe howfunctional this device is including the camera andvoice dialing functions.Did I mention getting online without wifi whenever Iwant?