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4.5 stars
"The device is essentially MS Outlook for your pocket. Reduce paper and increase portability."
Pros: Super simple to use; extreme portability;sleek design; great software;eliminate the need for paper date book and increase portability; amazing battery life; good handwriting recognition software
Cons: Soft touch screen;images are poor; unnecessary programs prepackaged; packaged screen protector protects, but aesthetically looks bad; stylus is plastic.
Summary: If your looking for a PDA that essentially takes Microsoft Outlook and puts it all into a pocket sized device then this is a must have. It is extremely small and much more portable then any paper based book. In fact it is much smaller then it looks in pictures and videos. I also highly reccomend investing in the air case or something else to protect it.
The Calendar software for syncing is very simple and looks much like Outlook Calendar does. Import vCal easily.
There are some nice software additions like Splashshopper to manage your grocery lists and other lists as well as a small database program and ebook reader.
The only downside to the software might be the addit program. Addit is very useful for trying out demos of software and receving some news information, but it is full of advertisements and is very hard to delete from the PDA.
The device does not play mp3's, but do any of the PDA's avaliable play mp3's particularly well or work as amazing mp3 players? If your looking for an mp3 player you would probably be best to simply invest in a small flash mp3 player. Lets remeber that this is a PDA or Personal Digital Assistant and not a media player.
For $100 this is well worth it for the portability and simple outlook type features alone. The addition of the database and shopping lists as well as easy installation of programs like adobe reader and avant go make the price well worth it. Palm definatly nailed the target audience for this device: People who want to ditch the paper organizer and those who have not used a PDA before. This PDa is really for personal information rather then business. If you are a college student, parent, teenager, or anyone else who does not need a PDA for handle business information or Microsoft Office files then this would be a good investment for a PDA.
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