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Wireless in Seattle

Fri Oct 18, 2002 - 3:44 PM EDT - By James Hromadka

Flight to Seattle

Getting through Bush Intercontinental was thankfully uneventful. I got to the airport early, found a free outlet, and chilled until it was time to go.

I didn't bring any DVDs this time. Instead, I copied Pulp Fiction to my harddrive to try to save battery life using a program called DVDBackup. I'm not sure how well that theory worked, as my low battery warning came on just before Mr. Wolf came on the scene.

Ack! Just when it gets to my favorite part. So for the remainder of the flight, I read from a Quality Management book for my MBA class and typed the first part of this article on the Treo 90 until we landed. Of course given my notorious bad luck with flying, I could only smile wryly when the captain announced that we were sitting on the runway because of some security breach at SEA-TAC.

Eventually I did get off the plane. This time Mobius was a month later, and I was hoping the temperature wouldn't be too cold. Houston gets about two weeks of winter each year, so I don't really have cold weather clothes. I had to hope my leather jacket would do. The temperature was fairly cool when I landed, but over the course of the weekend, it wasn't too bad. The heater in the hotelroom and on the shuttle buses was plenty warm for me. I like to sleep fairly warm, much to the chagrin of my wife.

I have always found it fascinating how my technology needs have changed for each trip I take. A few years ago, I took a bunch of Springboard modules with me on a trip to Dallas. As time has gone on, I find myself taking fewer items along. Call it convergence, call it not enough room in the bag, or call it not wanting to get hastled by airport security; I don't want to take a whole bunch of stuff with me when I travel anymore. Most of the items that made it on the list this year weigh less than a few ounces, and all of them work together in some way.

I find it interesting that the PowerBook, Treo 90, and T68i all can talk to each other. Many devices today can talk to a computer -- and that's it. Being able to communicate with multiple devices opens new doors that users did not used to have available to them.

Synchronization is where it begins. I have contacts and calendar data on the PowerBook, Treo, and the T68i. When at my desk, I can pull up a contact on the Mac. When away from the desk, I can choose to bring the Treo along if I plan on typing anything or need extensive calendar information, or leave the Treo behind (gasp!) and just bring my mobile phone because it is so small. I have a choice now.

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