Slow Migration Away From My Palm

Well... I never thought I would do this, but I'm slowly migrating away from my Palm. My current Palm is the Palm TX, and I've been using it for everything for about two years now. Of course, there is a long line of Palm PDA's running back before the Palm TX.

The things I use my Palm for includes using it as an MP3 player. I find this to be especially handy, since I always have my Palm with me, and all I need is a set of earbuds (or better yet, some real headphones) and some MP3 files (I usually listen to netcasts instead of music) loaded on my SD memory card.

So if I find my Palm so handy for playing MP3s, what’s could be the drawback? We'll I've been getting more physically active, and while my Palm works great during cycling and weight training, I’m finding the TX a little large (and heavy) lately for use while running.

Truth be told, even when running, since it's usually in a pocket, I don’t find the Palm TX that large, cumbersome or heavy, at least not enough to be worth spending money on a fix / replacement. However, I had a birthday recently, and one of the gifts I received was an MP3 player from my family.

This new toy is a really nice, 2Gig flash based SanDisk Sansa e250 video and music player. It’s small, light, and shiny! [Grin] I find it especially nice to use for music and short video clips.

Unfortunately, I don’t usually listen to music, rather I listen to netcasts, mostly from the TWiT Netcast Network. So far, I find the controls to be less appropriate when it comes to listing to much longer (40 to 80 minutes long) MP3s making it hard for example, to return to where I left off.

I have decided to give myself time to get use to the MP3 player controls, and develop new habits etc. I’ll be sure to post more on this topic and let you know how things work out after a longer adjustment period.