Palm Pilot

Palm is a spin-off company of 3Com

I retired my faithful (and rather powerful) HP 200LX palmtop for a (at the time) spanking new 3Com PalmPilot Professional. The HP was just at the hairy edge of being small enough to carry around enough to make the thing useful. The Palmpilot really does fit in a shirt pocket. This is a major feature. If it's small enough to carry around, then you will use it. It's also around $400 less expensive. So far, I'm happy. I like the desktop software, and the hot synch feature is a major selling point.

Since then, I've upgraded my Pro with the 2meg & Infra-red upgrade board, then broke down for a Palm V!
My third Palm was a Palm IIIc. It's way cool! I was pushing the memory limits on my Palm V, so I've gone nuts loading new stuff on my 8Meg IIIc. The color screen is very sharp too.
Since then I decided wireless is cooler than color and picked up an i705. Then I geeked heavily for a Tungsten C. The first WiFi Palm.
I've been happy with that one, but after 4 years it's showing some wear and tear. The WiFi stopped working after a Firmware upgrade and the battery just doesn't hold a charge like it used to.
To replace it, I picked up Lifedrive model, which is being end of lifed. It does however have several nice features

4 Gig microdrive
plays mp3 files
WiFi
Bluetooth
Functions a USB drive
320 x 480 HiRes color screen

The current palm models are:

Accessories:

I have a keyboard for my Palm V. It's great. Just pray to whatever God, gods, or goddesses you hold dear that the damn thing never breaks. I've been involved in a month and half long exercise in extreme frustration trying to get a replacement keyboard for the one I bought from the Palm Website the day they came out. So far, I've found out that Palm is very good at shuffling you about and claiming that would ship them out next day. The reality is that nobody there can actually tell you if things actually are shipped or even they have the bloody things in stock.

It's official. Palm Customer Service sucks. I'm currently in my third nightmare situation dealing with them. After the fiasco with the Palm V keyboard, I had a problem with my i705 screen. It was under warrentee, so I was sent a replace i705. Screen worked, but not the damn radio!
Think about it! Why do people buy the i705? For the bloody wireless service! It took Palm Customer Service (HA! That's false advertising!) three tries to send me an i705 with a working radio!

Now they have my Tungsten C hostage at their Texas repair center! It arrived on 9/11/03. The estimated return ship date, according to their website was 9/17. On 9/18, they changed the date to 9/24. Today (9/25), they changed it to 10/1! No explanation. Just slipping dates and typical Palm Customer Disservice!

I traded my Palm Tunsten C for a referbed LifeDrive. It has a big screen with decent resolutin, a 3 Gig internal HD, and supports both BlueTooth and WiFi. With a folding keyboard, it's a decent laptop replacement in a pinch.

Local E-Text: These are in AportisDoc format.

The United States Declaration of Indepenance
The Cyberspace Declaration of Indepenance
The Second Ammendment in Plain English. This document can be found on my RKBA page.
The Doc Savage FAQ, which can be found on the web on my Pulp page.
Bill Clinton's Letter to his ROTC instructor.
A collection of quotes by and about William Jefferson Clinton
The Shadowrunner's Guide to Boston. This is available in browsable format here.

PalmPilot Links

BrainForest
PalmPilot Ring
handango
For the well dressed geek.
Jabberwocky ala Newton!
Control Your Furby!
Palm Robot
comp.sys.palmtops.pilot newsgroup
A new palm device that uses the Palm OS.
A review of the Handspring Visor by my friend John Nowak.

For a whole bunch of free etext, try the Baen CDs and the Baen Free Library.

The Palm Pilot organizer isn't just a sales success. It's reaching cult status. At the Feb. 18 meeting of President Clinton's high-tech Advisory Committee in Santa Clara, Calif., 15 of the 22 members whipped out the Palm to schedule future meetings. -- Business Week, March 1998.

Eclipse's WEB Warren

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