Years ago I owned an old Morris Minor.

Graham came up with the folloing nugget on 247 yesterday- “Years ago I owned an old Morris Minor. If the battery went flat you could start it up manually by cranking the engine a few times with something called a ‘starting handle’. (Younger readers might want to google this!) On numerous occasions I have seen people trying to bump start their cars. I usually think, ‘It’s a shame they don’t still build cars with starting handles.’ A few months ago my son’s car battery died. He couldn’t bump start it as it is an automatic. I couldn’t drive out to help him because I had spent the evening in with my wife and Jack Daniel. My son had to call out the RAC and I thought,  ‘It’s a shame they don’t still build cars with starting handles.’

I held off upgrading my Treo for a long time because I was looking for something to match the capabilities of the Palm PIM apps. Now I have come to the point where I have realised that it is just not a priority for manufacturers. I bought a Hero not to replace my Treo but to complement it. It seems I am destined to always carry two devices around. It used to be a Palm Pilot and a dumb phone.

I dream of that day when one device will do everything I want but I am realistic: it may never happen. I am not frustrated though because I still think that my Treo is a really cool device. The problem with rapidly advancing technology is that we lose the wonder of the moment and are always looking for the next best thing. If you had said to me even 10 years ago that I would be able to carry round in my pocket something that powerful I probably would not have believed you. I will probably always wonder though, ‘Why don’t they still build cars with starting handles? Why don’t they make devices with PIM functionality at least equal to Palm’s?”