Downhill from here? (Palm 3)

Member Name: rlcross

Product:	Palm 3
Date:	24/06/02 (93 review reads)
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Advantages: weight, battery consumption, reliability

Disadvantages: memory, stylus storage

This is more of a long-term opinion, as I've had my little PIII for about three years now.

I originally bought this to replace a Psion 3, and because I liked the 'pocketability' of the Palm over the Psion.

In all that time, it's only let me down once, and that was because I managed to replace the batteries the wrong way round and wiped the memory. Oops!

It does all that I ask, and I use it for entertainment, as a storage for little bits of info, and - most usefully - as a store for various technical documents.

The screen is relatively easy to read, the battery life is long, (41-150 days on one pair of AAA batteries) and replacements easy to get, it's light weight and reliable. What more could I want?

Well, more memory. 2MB is no where near enough. Especially if you use AvantGo, (which I don't anymore).

A better clip for the stylus would be good as well, since I've had to store the stylus in the carrying case, since it keeps falling out if left in the socket in the machine itself.

Being able to use USB, rather than serial connection, would be convenient, but not essential. I'll get round to getting a new cradle for it someday, when they're on special offer.

The new ones have better (colour) screens and more memory, but correspondingly dire battery life. And worse still, the use of only rechargable packs, means you can't just nip into Tesco's and pick up a new pack of batteries.

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