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Palm handhelds

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OK, first, I don't know where this fits, so I'm just putting it in hardware, makes sense...

Ok, I want a cheap under $70 Palm Handheld. I have lots of choices.

My question, is a PalmOne Zire good? Or is a PalmOne III better?

But, If you have any good ideas, please post them. Even though I'll only be gettin the handheld in June... lol
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To be perfectly honest Stereo, I think handhelds are a complete waste of money. Sure, you'll have fun with it for a couple months, then you'll use it less and less until one day you'll find it lying at the bottom of a drawer, switch it on to reminisce and discover the battery has run completely flat and all that data you laboriously scribed in has been lost. At that point you'll be happy to give it away.

That's my experience anyway - I won a Toshiba PDA at some trade show once and the above is exactly the way things went. Go buy something useful with you money, like coat hangers maybe. You can never have enough coat hangers.
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GT3x24x7 wrote:Go buy something useful with you money, like coat hangers maybe. You can never have enough coat hangers.
LOL. You're really showing your age here GT, i mean hangers, the guys got $70 to spend. But i do agree with you a handheld is useless after a couple of months, unless you happen to be a very rich and busy entrepenuer, in which case just hire a personal assisstant. By somat else, maybe not a coat or some hangers. :lol:
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handhelds are very useless, so id say, save the 70 bucks and buy something else if you want, just not a damn PDA
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Indeed a waste of money.

Except for if you drive a car and it's used for navigation. But hey, you're not old enough to drive and you won't come that far on foot.
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I need it so I won't forget to do anything... Also I need to know people's emails and phones and addresses... I already changed the price to $30 and am planning to buy a Palm PalmPilot Pro
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Buy a notepad and pencil for $3. Trust me, you will regret buying the PDA.
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Or just use your computer :roll:

Or if you really want a portable organiser thing, then get a Nintendo DS :lol: (i think it's an organiser :oops: )

Edit: maybe not . . .

Just get a phone!
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Yup, as Bogan said, there's nothing a cell phone cant do and a cheap PDA can.

Going a little offtopic here, but I think we are going to see phones/game-stationts/organisers/other-PDA-stuff in one single gadget pretty soon (in a couple of deacades i.e.)
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i use my Nokia 6600 for minor PDA jobs... notes, pdf, email, mp3, video capture...
and also phoning and sms :D

http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,33210,00.html
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Post by GT3x24x7 »

Yeh I have the 6600 too. It's handy for a few quick things, but I don't bother to rely on it when I'm around computers so much.
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Post by Andre_online »

Actually, I'm not sure about one particular model of Sony Erricson. The phone comes along with a "handheld" pen, and my teachers in school are using it. Personally, I think that's a better choice compared to Nokia. :)
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i'd be crazy if one day we see graphics cards in phones, imagine a x850 in your cell phone :-D
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ok... this is gettin offtopic... I don't NEED a cell phone! they cost too much! 25 bucks is the max I can spend and I'm not doing that for a phone. I don't even NEED a phone. All i need is a PDA! *sigh* don't you get it?!
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Post by GT3x24x7 »

We get it. And you don't *need* a PDA.
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GT3x24x7 wrote:Buy a notepad and pencil for $3.
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Post by Stereo »

PSZeTa wrote:
ME wrote:I don't want to because I would have a PDA instead
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Just get a phone!

Even if you dont call people, it's still better than a PDA!
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PHONES cost WAY more! OMG
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Not cheap or second hand ones :roll:
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whatever im just gettin a PDA even thought your bothering me. This was a WHICH PDA would you prefer topic, not a GET A PDA OR NOT topic... oy...
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