Every Company Needs a Good Map

I am not a big believer in having all of my eggs in one basket. (alhought B.J. Herbison has a  humorous list of reasons to keep your eggs in one basket.) I prefer to have a separate phone, PDA, and MP3 player. If one goes out I still have the others.

I am also not a big fan of having any one person be the sole repository of knowledge or skill in a company. It is destabilizing and dangerous. If that person leaves, gets sick, or unhappy you will have a big problem.

Back  to the phone: What I want is something that lets me connect all of my communications, music, and data storage devices in my car...

Why do I want this? I want it this way so that I can listen to music, take a call, or look up a person and call them without having to turn off all of the other devises. I suppose if I could find a device that would connect to my car stereo, or a car stereo that can use Bluetooth to play music files from my PDA, or cell phone, and will cut the music when a call comes in, I'll buy it.

There are headphones that can see a PDA and a phone and interrupt the music for a call - like the Motorola Motorokr S9 I found out about this in the June issue of Fast Company. They have some other interesting gizmos as well in the "Coming Soon to a Cell Phone Near You" article by Michael Propero. I suppose I could spend more time on BoingBoing or Engadget but I try to keep myself busy with work.

BTW - my phone can make and receive calls, it can play music, and it has a camera. I can surf the web, but I don't because I can do that easily enough on my computer. My phone can be turned sideways - not that it does much but it can. I rarely use it to take pictures - that is why I have a digital camera with 6 mega pixel resolution.

The number on reason I will not get an iPhone for at least two years - AT&T Wireless. I have had their service and I did not like it.