Mark Phillips wrote:
> So I'd appreciate anyone responding with stories about what you have
> and what you like or don't like about it.

My Handera 330(PalmOS based) (www.handera.com) has some pretty nifty 
features like a high resolution screen, very long lasting lithium ion 
battery, and the capibility for SD/MMC and CompactFlash cards.  Also, it 
works with Palm/PalmIII accessories.  33mhz Dragonball processor, 8mb 
ram.  I use the SD/MMC socket to keep a flash card that I backup the 8mb 
of ram to periodically, so if my palm dies on the road I can just reload 
it after it gets a charge.  Theres also a voice recorder, but I dont use 
it much.  The voice recorder can record to SD/MMC or CompactFlash.

The CompactFlash socket also accepts 802.11 cards.

Downsides: non-high-res-enabled apps can be scaled to the higher res, 
but some apps have to be ran in a smaller windowed mode so they dont 
crash.  network applications for the palm are ok at best.  blazer is a 
good web browser, but doesn't work in high-res, and upirc is a great 
high-res enabled IRC client.  SSH clients are still low res, but work.

This doesn't keep me from using it on the way into work on the bus though.

The upside of the device:

clear screen, same form factor as a palm III, rabid peer support on some 
yahoo groups, the company that makes it has excellent customer support. 
  Its still palmos, which actually has lots of useful apps for it. (the 
high-res mapping program mapopolis is awesome to have.)  Still uses 
high-speed serial, so its easy to hack onto things and also easy to use 
with linux.

Yeah, its not linux, but the linux PDA's just dont have that 
out-of-the-box can-do-anything that palmos has still.  Perhaps that will 
change in a couple years, but palmos works for me still.

-- 
Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org>