A New Way to Cachemate!

Cachemate on the Palm Centro

So I’m at work the other day when the wife calls. She’d been complaining that my current phone was really beat up and badly in need of replacing. So, she asked me, “I’m at the Verizon store; since you’ll never get around to getting yourself a new phone, what do you want?”  WHAT A WIFE!!! I immediately thought of cachemate! How great would it be to leave the old Palm 500 at home???

Normally, Verizon sells NONE of their PDA’s without hooking you into a contract for a data package. However, my wife was insistent (as was I) that I didn’t need or want a data package. Finally, they caved! Within 20 minutes of getting my new Centro, I had CACHEMATE installed on it. I was also ecstatic to find the Palm Desktop program for the Centro didn’t crash my computer (as happened about half of the time with the old Palm!!!).

My wife also bought me the silicone Body Glove for the Centro, but I may

Easily readable screen, no data package required!

end up buying Otterbox’s case for it.

A word of warning about Verizon. Remember how my wife insisted we didn’t want a data package? Well, they tacked it onto my first bill ANYWAY! One phone call from my wife fixed that. Further, your phone’s data applications can STILL connect with the Internet- one wrong ‘click’ on the screen and you will pay for it with your first and second child!

The real upside to the Centro (or any phone PDA) is that it eliminates having to take one more piece of equipment into the field. However, having two devices rolled into one has the downside of over dependency; it that appliance dies, you’ve lost BOTH functions (phone AND Palm). But, so far, so good!