Help me before I go too far. (Palm V)

Member Name: driver8

Product:	Palm V
Date:	11/07/01 (101 review reads)
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Advantages: cuteness, size, weight

Disadvantages: backlight, black & white

Once upon a time a long time ago, I worked for 3Com, when they bought US Robotics who owned Palm who made a thing which kept names and addresses and a diary and you could write directly into it. SO I got one for free - A Palm Pilot to be precise. Then I got a Palm III then I got a PalmV, and that's what I've got today. I've been using a Palm device since 1997 when pulling it out on the plane (the Palm that is) caused your neighbours to shuffle uncomfortably in their seats, and squint sideways at what you were up to.

Those days are long gone now and PDA's are taken for granted and the old Palm seems, against all the odds, to be staying ahead of the pack despite having the wrong Operating System and holding out against colour until recently.

But why I like it and why I still use it is because it's a piece of cake to use, the handwriting works, it's easy to keep names and addresses and make diary entries. It's almost magical how it synchronises with Outlook and now I can do my e-mail and download web pages using AvantGo. I stopped downloading software for it a long time ago, so I have no games or extraneous apps at all - I need all the memory I can get. It has become a part of me like a Laptop never can, or a time manager never should.

Best of all the Palm looks good in it's cute little full metal jacket. Where the iPaq looks garish and the Jornada bulky. The Sony looks like Clive Sinclair designed but there's something wrong and I know what it is...

It should be in colour...shouldn't it?

I do hanker after a colour one but the IIIc was a backward step. The m505 looks good because it looks like a Palm V. But do I really need colour? I really need the extra memory on the Vx before I need colour.
No really I'm happy in cruddy old black and white.

All I can say is..get one..and if you don't like it someone somewhere will give you your money back.

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