[wellylug] Wanted: Palmtop/handheld recommendations

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

I have used a Handspring Visor Prism and my current Sony Clie.  I have
mine with me constantly, and rely on it.  One suggestion is get a good
display.

The Prism was the color model - even though it was lo-res that helped a
lot (I briefly used a Visor Deluxe - lo-res and 4 shades of grey).

Readability is very important to me, and might be to you.  The newer
standard for screens on Palm-type machines is 320x320, and it's much
more readable.  I got the Clie NX70V partly because it's the highest
size/resolution screen available now - 320x480 - half a VGA display. 
The Clie NX60 & NX70R are lower priced units with the same display, and
the NX73, NX80, and NZ90 are higher priced.  That display is nice. 
There is an after market app that lets me switch between any of several
hi-res fonts on the machine.

It interfaces well with Linux.  I've used jPilot (which looks largely
like the Palm desktop), and Evolution which adds mail but drops support
for Memopad notes (one could always transfer them as tasks I suppose).

The NX60 on up handle stereo sound, and record as well, which might be
of use.  I believe a lot of current Palm machines can do this.

My NX70V came with Documents-to-Go Standard, which means Word compatible
document editing and Excel compatible spreadsheets - nice on the big
display.

Cheers,
Bret

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 00:41, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
>  My wife is thinking about buying me a palmtop for a pressie at some stage
> and I'd like some advice on a well priced palmtop to handle the following:
> 
> * Phone/address/email contact list
> 
> * Some games (such as the PopCap (www.popcap.com) ones eg. Bejewelled)
> 
> * Holding documentation such as the PHP manual (which is available in
> Palmpilot doc/Palmpilot iSilo formats) - this is probably the most important
> thing
> 
> * Maybe MP3 playing
> 
> * Would be very handy if it supported a couple of different memory card
> technologies such as MMC and SD
> 
> Keep in mind that she won't be wanting to spend more than a few hundred
> dollars (probably around $600-$700 absolute maximum), I know that might be a
> lot to ask but I'd welcome some suggestions.
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