{"id":4873,"date":"2006-10-07T17:36:35","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T17:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/does-mobile-computing-save-time.html"},"modified":"2006-10-07T17:36:35","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T17:36:35","slug":"does-mobile-computing-save-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wireless\/does-mobile-computing-save-time.html","title":{"rendered":"Does Mobile Computing Save Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Andy&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/andyabramson.blogs.com\/voipwatch\/2006\/10\/rim_tmobilewhy_.html\">war story<\/a> and recalling past problems with mobile devices I get to wondering if we as productive as we think. Sure handheld e-mail devices such the Blackberry are great for straight text but power users often get screwed because we push the limits.<\/p>\n<p>Having too many contacts, too many e-mails, too much software, opening attachments, etc just kills these units. Worse yet, the service for Blackberry Server as provided by service providers is not so great. Andy I have fewer server integration issues with my <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/verizon-xv6700.html\">XV6700<\/a> but I have to reboot it a few times a day due to slow performance and headset sync issues. I am still patiently awaiting the iPod version of the mobile e-mail device that hopefully just works without the need for so much tech support. In the mean time if you are a light mobile computing user you are likely more productive but I wonder about us power users. Sometimes pen and paper begins to look enticing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Andy&rsquo;s war story and recalling past problems with mobile devices I get to wondering if we as productive as we think. Sure handheld e-mail devices such the Blackberry are great for straight text but power users often get screwed because we push the limits. Having too many contacts, too many e-mails, too much<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[259,1293],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}