Treo 680: Full circle

I cannot believe that I am typing on this new Treo while playing digital music I had just loaded onto the SD card. Of all people the music is from Ennio Morricone and it is just beautiful and magnificent to hear in this moment. I have a sense of contentment with this device now that I have opened myself up to its capabilities. This is utterly embarrassing and deeply humbling for me because I had needlessly spent a lot of time and money in searching for the perfect device. I never imagined that I would ever come back full circle to my first smartphone only to be just as amazed as I was with any other full-featured model. As I am typing this on the Treo 680 and listening to Renee Fleming sing "Come Sail Away" I cannot help but feel so emotional...my eyes are beginning to well up. So much of my time and effort had been wasted and lost to this obsession of mine to find my destined tech toy, but it is too late to be angry. I did it to myself and it is time to move on to bigger things.

Oh my...this thing is SOOO efficient and quick to use that it has left me speechless with my mouth wide open. One-handed navigation is so intuitive with the d-pad and most of the time I don't even need the touch screen! The messaging app is a joy to work with in all its simplicity and the paid upgrade to Pocket Tunes 4 is well worth the $40 bucks! Pocket Tunes takes the media players of Nokia and Sony Ericsson and blows them both into the dust with its features: appealing blue background, clear control layouts, concise track listings, internet radio support (without the use of a cord for an antenna), volume boosters and REAL ALBUM ART...not some tiny pic of what resembles the cd cover, but an actual pic that can be enlarged to fill the WHOLE ENTIRE screen!!! I cannot wait to get my 8GB SDHC card to fill it up with pics and music!!

This is only the first night and I have only hit the tip of the iceberg. I am so grateful to have come back to Treo that I may not even care to see either the Nokia E90 or the Apple iPhone.