Palm Stylus

Advantages: extremely portable, 8MB storage capacity
Disadvantages: not a flash looker!, can't recharge

...looks like plastic, so I'm going to put my money on that. There is a flip cover to protect the screen. In the back there is a handy holder into which you slide the stylus when not in use, the stylus being the thin black pen-like object which you use when touching the screen. It runs on two AAA batteries. When the Palm IIIxe is turned off the screen is a vaguely greenish colour. There is also a Hotsync cradle (another plastic affair), into which you place the Palm when 'syncing' (to be explained further below). Then again, as they say, looks aren't everything and in this case what goes on inside this Palm is a lot more impressive than the first impression it creates. It has 8MB of storage capacity. It comes with the Palm Operating System which includes a number of key applications including Date Book, Memo Pad, Mail and Address Book... Read review

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Advantages: small, fast, sexy, best palm ever
Disadvantages: relatively high price

...(!) casing of the Ipaq. I think overall the Ipaq used to be the sexiest PDA around, but the Tungsten has certainly taken that no.1 spot. I think the Tungsten also has a much more professional look. It lies very good in your palm and the stylus comfortably expands to reveal a pen sized stylus. Very easy to handle. The only minus is the plastic protection cover, which is quite handy but scrathes easily. Speed Much faster than the Ipaq! I think this is also due to the simpler operating system. You can switch applications with lightning speed without keeping previous applications in RAM. This is not the case with pocket PC software, where once opened applications keep running in the background. This means that once in a while you will have to reset the Ipaq to clear its memory completely. Very annoying. The Ipaq can sometimes slow down to a crawl... Read review

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Advantages: Its a Great Electronic Organiser - for Organising everything in your life.
Disadvantages: It's battery life is very dependant on its usage. It taking it on buisiness for more than a couple of days - take the charger pack.

.... I set another date, lunch on Friday with my Wife, its her birthday and I set a reminder to phone the Restaurant to make reservations. The Stylus that comes with the Palm is light and easy to use, you have to master a slightly different alphabet to enter details onto the screen but if you cannot remember how to do a Q, I forget often, then you open up the on display querty keyboard and tap away to your hearts content. 0900 hrs: I arrive at work and boot up my PC then connect my Palm to its Cradle it begins recharging and I complete a hot sync. This synchronises my Office Outlook Address and appointments with what is held on my Palm. It also creates backup files of any Word Documents, PowerPoint presentations and Excel Spreadsheets that I may have worked on using the Palm. The Palm has a TFT colour screen which has a backlight... Read review

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