# What electronic gizmos do you have?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 13, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-electronic-gizmos-do-you-have/344239 "2006-02-13T04:57:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-electronic-gizmos-do-you-have/344239/21 "2006-02-14T03:49:08Z")

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> [@Unintentionally Blank](#):
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> Garmin ique3600(_)  
> HTC Faraday/Cingular 2125 (This is an AWESOME smartphone)(_)

Forgot to elucidate the \* - both are sync’d with outlook. The Phone is more a phone, the PDA is more a book reader that lets me never get lost (maps of the western 2/3rds of the US) While they both want to be your primary PDA, their strengths dovetail nicely.

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**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-electronic-gizmos-do-you-have/344239/22 "2006-02-14T04:06:22Z")

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> Film?! A _watch_?! You mean, like, one of those sundial handcuffs from the late 19th-century dark ages? You, sir, truly are an old-school EE.
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> P.S. Out of curiosity, why film?

Actually, both of these things connect to the same idea. A watch, a real watch, an automatic or a winder, is real in a way that software isn’t and quartz mimics very poorly; you can hear it, see it, feel it ticking if you want to. A film camera just has this comfortable, highly tactile quality to it. You pull the advance lever, and there’s tension in the machine, a click as you pull the next exposure into place. I have a Nikon F3T and I’ve never found a digital camera that _felt_ the same way.

I also like the way film grains up - film graininess has a sort of organic, random feel to it, but digital grain is just dead, sterile and blocky. But that’s secondary; if I could afford to digi-back a good film camera, I might change over on grounds of convenience.

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**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-electronic-gizmos-do-you-have/344239/23 "2006-02-14T04:14:20Z")

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iBook G4  
Old school 15 gig iPod (2nd gen maybe? It was free)  
PalmOne Tungsten E (also free - mom’s work conference, she didn’t want it, she uses a leather bound thing)  
Lexar 256 mb flash drive  
LG camera phone  
Canon SD10 4 megapixel digital camera  
Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus graphing calculator I bought in high school

I think that’s it. Next purchase: Nikon D50 (anyone wanna donate? ha)

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