Rocky Mountain HiPhone
This afternoon I drove out to Lookout
Mountain and other mountainous points of
interest. Photography wasn't good because
of the weather, but it was a nice, relaxing
outing. The guy at the hotel gave me
directions for how to take the "scenic
route" there. When I was done sightseeing,
it was getting late and I just wanted to
get back to town to get something to eat so
I took the more direct route back. Problem
is, I took a wrong turn somewhere and ended
up in, shall we say, an undesirable part of
town. iPhone's Google Maps to the rescue
again. Granted, I could probably have used
the Google Maps Java app on my old phone to
get me out of a bind, but it would have
been so painful as to be almost not worth
doing. The screen on the CU500 is about one
quarter the linear size and less than one
quarter the pixel count. And "typing"
addresses, or anything for that matter, is
a royal pain -- in some situations it puts
you in T9 and in some you're in plain old
724446633388555555999#833_3444666887777
("painfully tedious") mode. Having a QWERTY
keyboard makes everything go much faster as
I'm sure Blackberry, Blackjack, and other
smartphone users can confirm.
