forgetful persons friend (Palm V)

Member Name: whizzer and chip

Product:	Palm V
Date:	22/07/01 (99 review reads)
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Advantages: small, light

Disadvantages: fairly expensive

I have had my Palm V for about 4 months now and it just continues to be of more and more use

I use mine for e-mail storage, diary appointments, addresses and contact info mainly.

The main problem I have had in the past is that during the course of my work I recieve a huge volume of e-mail and requests for meetings etc. I was continually doubling up on meetings and forgetting to reply to e-mails. Now with my Palm V it is all stored in one handy place and because it is so small and light I can carry it with me everywhere. I no longerforget anything or miss appointments.

It enables you to synchronise e-mail and calanders with your PC via the cable link and software provided. The installation and set up is quick and easy and caused me no problems at all. To update your palm with the new appointments and e-mails is just one press of the synchronise button and in about 30 seconds its all done (depending on how much there is to download/upload.

Because it also uploads to my PC everyone alse is aware of when I am busy or avialable which has greatly reduced the number of conflicting meetings I was getting.

For taking quick notes the 'Graffiti' function is ideal once you have become familiar with pen strokes required for each of the letters and punctuation symbols. For greater ease of use and to enable you to take notes in a meeting or anywhere else for that matter, you can purchase a keyboard.

Again just install the software the next time you 'sync' with your PC and its ready to use.

A vast range of additional upgrades and software is available and some free downloads as well from the Palm web site.

I paid about £230 pounds for mine and at the time felt I maust have had some sort of brain wave to spend such a lot on what appears to be such a trivial item, but once I had fully utilised it, the benifits have been worth the cost.

I don't go anywhere without it now.

My
only gripe is that now I have the keyboard I would like a word processing package that I could then upload to my PC for those occasions when on long haul flights or train journeys when I could some work but the laptop is a bit too big and conspicuous.

Once connected to a mobile phone it can also send e-mail direct, although I haven't yet tried out this feature.

Overall I would reccommend anyone that has a busy lifestyle to get one or something similar as it has been a great help to me in organising my time.

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