Following from my last post about the Sharp GX10i, I am following up with another fond memory – this time of the Samsung SGH-i300. Now, what made this device “special” was the fact that it was one of the first to have a mini-HD in it – in this case, a not inconseqential 3GB!
Interestingly, I had one of these devices – back then, I was a Windows Mobile addict, and used to be a big fan of Activesync’s seamless PC to device updating. The SGH-i300 was a WinMo device, and as such seemed a logical progression. The device’s scroll-wheel was also quite novel, and all went well until a couple of weeks in when I accidentally dropped the device on a carpet – and from not very high either. There was zero damage externally, but the device turned off – not a good sign.
Suffice to say, it never turned on again, and likely culrpit – the HD! Oddly, I’d noticed on rebooting the device previously that startup seemed to require the spin-up of the HD (perhaps to read files or similar), so the fact the HD was dead meant the device was dead! Alas poor i300, I knew him well…..
Anyone else have this device?