For you Treo lovers, I need to know why you love them so much.

You completely stop caring when and where a show is on. "House" is on whenever you feel like watching it. Catching up on three weeks' worth of "Veronica Mars"? No big. Supper isn't finished by 8PM on Wednesday? Whatever.

Don't feel like sitting through the commercial? Start watching "Stargate" 15 minutes late, then hit fast-forward whenever a commercial shows up.

Stop running your life by the TV schedule; run the TV schedule by your life.

For you Treo lovers, I need to know why you love them so much.

You completely stop caring when and where a show is on. "House" is on whenever you feel like watching it. Catching up on three weeks' worth of "Veronica Mars"? No big. Supper isn't finished by 8PM on Wednesday? Whatever.

Betsy, you're talking about Tivos, not Treos, right?

Oh, God.

Yes, and did I mention that Treos make fantastic vibrators?

stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid.....

Yes, and did I mention that Treos make fantastic vibrators?

Now I really hope you're not talking about Tivos...

Well, seeing shirtless Gunn ought to count for something.

I've heard it spinning up to start recording. There's just no comfortable position when it's on the tv stand...

What benefit is there in doing this besides being able to immediately call those in my contact book?

Well for me, I just didn't want to carry around my phone and PDA anymore. The Treo is a decent sized PDA, and a slightly bulky phone, but slim enough for me. Also it has most of the bells and whistles of the latest batch of phones like bluetooth, camera/video camera, mp3 player, movie player (with PDA software), games, internet, and, of course, vibrate mode. Actually with an SD slot and an unlimited capacity to run Palm OS software it can do pretty much anything.

What Wolfram said. I bought it because I found myself never carrying my PDA, but also found myself needing to, so I forced it upon myself by combining them. If you don't mind carrying both a phone and a PDA, a Razr with a bluetooth-enabled PDA may be a better choice (though slightly more expensive).

Another thing I like about the combo is that I can run the batteries down independently. My PDA is never run down (my memory's good enough for that), but my phone may run out if I'm being inattentive plus using it heavily in two days.

Also, the Razr slips into just about any pocket so very neatly. I've played around with Treos, and my pockets just aren't big enough.

*nods* That last would actually be quite true for most girls, I think. Not a problem at all for me - I'm a big guy with a fondness for cargo pants. Never wear jeans. The treo (and my wallet, usually, in the same pocket) fits fine in a pocket for me.

There are a whole bunch of Windows Moble smartphones available now and coming out in the future, some of which are very slim, that look pretty neat. I'm happy with the Treo, and expect I will be for a while to come, but they're getting old. Palm OS is, sadly, rather out of date these days.