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You Versus Your Gadgets: March 2007 Archives

Why Do My Gadgets Hate Me?

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Two years ago I got my first Treo cell phone. I thought I was the coolest kid on the block. Now I'm ready to hurl the thing out my 12th floor window, or at least marinate it overnight in a bowl of coffee. Why? It's got a serious case of response-time sluggishness, aka button lag. Every time I click one of the onscreen controls (voicemail, contacts, etc.) I end up having to wait while the thing...what? calculates? eats its mini-processor spinach? I don't know...but whatever it's doing, it's taking way too long, making me give less than a hoot about all the other things it supposedly can do (take pictures, videos, browse the Web, listen to music). Now I know I can spend time reading through the help section of Palm's Web site or Verizon's (my cell carrier), but, c'mon: I just want the thing to work.



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