Why Do We Love Our Mobile Phones?

Occasionally I have noted my use of a Palm-powered Treo on Orange in the UK. It’s an OK phone and an OK organiser (and an OK MP3 player and a poor camera), but as one pocket-sized device it more-or-less rocks. Sometimes I wish it were smaller, and sometimes I wish it were bigger. Sometimes I wish I’d spent the cash on the keyboard accessory, and sometimes I don’t.

Last month Engadget carried what they said were actual pics of the new Treo Ace/Treo 650, which is the next version of the device and – of course – carries some neat improvements. At the start of next year, I will be 12 months into the contract for the ‘phone and able to change it. The thing is – although I love all the features and I love the whole Palm experience – I can’t help thinking that I need to get a simpler machine that is just a telephone.

Ah, the dilemmas of the gadget obsessed.