What is not easy is for me is giving up my Treo700w. Today, as I slowly began coming to terms with the possibility of losing my Treo I became very very sad. If I am not living in Treo700w bliss, I need my Treo to bring as much joy to someone else as it has brought to me. When I read James' blog from yesterday, I decided that I would give him my old spare Treo 700w. So, I convinced him to stop by and when he got here I thought, well maybe he would want a blackberry instead. I showed him David's old Blackberry (yes, we paid the 40 cents and he got his new one the next day) and my spare Treo and he thought they both looked cool but then he noticed: (1) No touch screen on the BB, (2) No camera, (3) No picture contacts and he quickly chose the Treo700w. He was so excited!
As I was writing this, he called to ask me how to make the photo contacts zoom in on the contacts face. So I grabbed my Treo and walked him through cropping a photo. It was so easy! The device is intuitive, it is not hard to operate at all. Could cropping photes be that easy on a blackberry? I digress since most of the BB don't have photo contacts or cameras. I have never become so attached to a device, I am always looking for an upgrade, but not this time. Ugh, I am sick to my stomach.
Maybe, I will call Staples for help dealing with the potential loss of my Treo700w. They tend to have answers to the most perplexing problems, I don't know why but everything just seems to be easy for those guys.
9 comments:
What's with the staples story?
Things are not easy at Staples. We just have a bunch of really great actors/actresses :)
Kim, I appreciate you giving Staples some props. Jenn and I need a reason to come to the office each day to sell those office supplies and make it “easy” for our customers. Have you seen the show “The Office”? That is our world exactly!
--Rachel
“Staples, That was easy”
kim, you are such a giver!
:)
Do not under estimate the need for photo ability. Contacts are great (my lovely 4 year olds face is my voicemail button).
Photo ability, however has become a matter of livelihood. TREO 700W users have graduated from passing notes in meetings to trivial observations SMS'ed, to serious observations captured photographically in time. You cannot recreate these daily moments. Whether it is capturing modems in Bakersfield, GI's knitting in Dallas or Jewish mothers managing DVD touting children observed by a beautiful blond child eating bacon (See if you saw the photo you would know what I am talking about).
I too am grieving the loss.
Has anyone done a study on if the world has become easier since Staples began mass producing and distributing Easy buttons? I see them all over the office, but alas, life is still full of challenges (or "opportunities" as they make us call them at my Office).
Unhappy The Treolovething Lovejoy
Kim looked at the desk upon top which sateth her Treolovething. Beside it reposed her newbly aquired Blackened-Berry.
"I'm in shocked disbelieving," she whelped, the nightmarish of no longer having her cud-cuddily Treolovething adding a not unattracted brough to her whelplesshness.
And then visionaries of "24" lithely danced behind her eyeirises.
And she danced and pranced and onward and onward!
EyemwatchingU
I think this last post must be from someone who is drunk. I am lost....lost......lost......
never fear.... BlackBerry Pearl to the rescue!
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