Am I better Off?

I remember sitting at my desk a number of years ago and staring at my Blackberry, my cell phone and palm pilot. I was longing to be able to carry only one device that would do it all. Well, here it is about 7 years later and voilà! My Blackberry Storm does everything those three devices did. It is a cell phone, does e-mail messaging well and has great organizational applications…

So Why am I sitting here today staring at 3 devices that I carry around???

I’m looking at a Blackberry Storm, an iPod Touch, and a Garmin nüvi. Admittedly, I could consolidate all three. But not easily. And depending which hardware I choose I may lose one or more important featrures that I do not want to give up. I suspect I am not so different than others in 1- preferring something other than the iPhone and 2- still wanting iTunes to manage my music and therefore needing to have an iPod. While I haven’t tried it I suspect I could use either the iPod Touch or the Storm for GPS navigation but I doubt the experience would be lass than using the standalone Garmin plus it is a smaller screen on the handhelds. So my suspicion is that I will always be stuck with at least 2 handheld devices for the time being. That is until Google or Palm (they still in the game?) or some other vendor create a viable music manager/player combo. It seems unlikely that Microsoft can get into the mobile handheld market at this point. But you never know.

So, yes, I am indeed better off but I keep raising my expectations.