DesignTechnica Reviews Motorola Accompli 009

Ian Bell writes: "Designtechnica does a review of Motorola's new Accompli 009 2-way communicator. 'The ACCOMPLI sports the standard cast of communication and organization features - voice calling, calendar (syncs with Outlook or other personal information management programs), contacts, SMS, web browser, and a splash of ring tones and games. Not so standard is an RF modem that enables you to connect to the Internet through a data cable and operate as you would from a PC... ' While the features look good on paper, the unit has little to be desired. This is the first full review of the Accompli 009 on the net. Thanks guys."

Comments

Toys for Geeks

[Cryptopotamus]

When I worked for (a large paging company starting with the letter S and ending in L), an employee pointed out to me that highly-integrated communications devices are stuff for geeks. I believed him. Do plumbers carry around Palm Pilots with cellphones attached? No. They have those old 1993 Motorola pagers that cost $3.95 a month. So my advice is, stop trying to upgrade to the latest greatest toy and get to work.

Re:Toys for Geeks

[garcia]

my father works at an animal testing facility in PA. He has an iPAQ w/a 1G microdrive, wireless LAN connectivity, a laptop at home that monitors the temperatures in all the "cage rooms" (for lack of a better name for them) and calls him if there is any problem.

he has a rather small cellphone (I don't know how his old ass can see the numbers ;) and he has had a handheld GPS unit for years.

He is 55, he is definitly not a "geek". He just likes devices that make his life easier.

What's so wrong w/that?

First full review of the Accompli 009 on the net?

[ergo98]

I'm always a little surprized whenever anyone claims that something is the first on the net: Did they exhaustively seek out ever niche and crevice of the net to prove if this is true? It just seems so rural to claim something is the first among millions of possible hosts, with billions if not trillions of pages out there.

Of course you could hardly call the two page snippet on designtechnica a "full review" anyways, and that's ignoring the easy to find obvious fact that there are dozens of other easy to find (disproving the first claim) reviews out there, possibly themselves earning the illustrious "first on the net" title.

Proprietary PIM

[pinkUZI]

I find it interesting how the major cell phone manufacturers don't seem to be shy about creating their own proprietary PIM software on each different model phone they produce. I prefer the Treo for its use of PalmOS, which has the market share today - I like the idea of being able to have some of my favorite apps on the device as well. Whereas, something like this, you better like what they put on 'cause you ain't gettin' no different.