With Tax season upon us here at Christianson & Associates it’s getting pretty busy here. So busy and hectic that AJ and I are now on call! We rotate through the week, he has some days and I the others, but basically I have to be able to respond to calls until 8pm! So now I have been given “The Brick” so my personal phone isn’t bothered.
The Brick is a Samsung-i760 Pocket PC and it’s pretty slick. I’m still in that “getting to know” period of that I go through when I first get something new.
Somethings I’ve noticed about it.
- It’s thick! I really wish I had a case for it to hang on my belt or something. I guess I’m just too use to my slim KRZR!
- The number pad is definitely made for the lefties among us, so it’s kinda hard to manipulate with my right.
- The QWERTY keyboard is nice, but you have to be a finger contortionist to use the shift key and the left side.
- There’s a noticeable lag while the screen switches from normal to “widescreen” (when popping open the QWERTY pad) and vice versa.
- VPN doesn’t seem to work, even when using my own Wi-Fi AP.
- Flash seems to have problems (no Youtube yet
).
Even with those annoyances, the fact that it has a built in Wi-Fi card is pretty sweet!