A friend sent me a link to thispast week’s WSJ Personal Technology column, which talks about the T-Mobile Sidekick, a surprisingly reasonably priced piece of technology. It’s like a Accompli, but priced at $199 instead of $599, and with unlimited (always on w/ GPRS) data usage (web, email, and aim) and 200 anytime / 1000 weekend minutes for $39.99 a month.
That’s pretty damn impressive and has me almost convinced on changing service right now. If the web browser is decent (allowing me to program usable web services) or even if there’s a decent programmable API (it has 4MB of Flash and 16MB of RAM…) and if it had Bluetooth (and a bluetooth headset accessory), I’d switch in a heartbeat. As it is though, I’m just going to lust for a while until I find out more information on its programmability. Hmm, I wonder if work will pay for one of these…
Random thought: imagine one of these puppies with built-in wi-fi and netstumbler. >;)