"Airplane Mode" on Elie's cell phone--the feature that disables all the functions of the phone while keeping the power on to drain batteries, for those who can't bear the thought of actually having to turn off their phones--still takes top honors as stupidest feature on an electronic device, but I have found a close second. Having worn out my old PDA, I recently purchased the new Palm Tungsten E. Among many other cool things, my new Palm allows me to pick from about 2 dozen color schemes for the screen. One of them is called "Nostalgia," and recreates fairly accurately the color (or lack thereof) scheme of my first PDA, the Palm Pilot. For those who have not yet joined the PDAed world, or who did not know the joy of the Palm Pilot, those screens had a background of dark army green with off-black LCD displays. There was a dial on the side to adjust the contrast. Why on earth someone would actually be nostalgic for that when they have a 320x320 transreflective full-color display, I will never know. Maybe some people out there buy the 65-inch high definition TV with picture-in-picture and pine the picture quality of a 3-inch portable black-and-white set.
Elie found it interesting that the monochrome color scheme is called "nostalgia," considering he bought our first Palm Pilots only about 5 years ago. Times, they are a-changin'.
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