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I have both platforms: a Dell x50v and a Palm T5, and I like both, in some respects, and dislike both in some respects. Either one pretty much does what I need to do with a handheld (I have a WiFi card for the T5). Some days I like one better than the other and some days it's the other way around. There have also been days when I've been tempted to throw both in the trash.
I may a bit older than the typical PDA user, I don't know (I'm 56), but I do know that my age gives me a perspective that I haven't seen expressed, yet. Specifically, I think back to the early morning hours decades ago when I watched the first manned moon landing, and I look at both PDAs and say "IS THIS THE BEST WE CAN DO?" I'm just amazed that handheld technology is not any farther along than it is. Sometimes I'd like to get hold of the corporate necks of both Microsoft and Palm and shake them and say "when are you going to get it right?" All you have to do is the read forums on boards for each of these devices to see a lot of dissatisfaction. Take the x50v, for example, a nice device overall, close to the top of the line and some would say at the top of the line: complaints about WiFi and Bluetooth not working at the same time, tons of complaints about memory management, and complaints about the VGA implementation of WM2003SE (not improved in WM2005) [many people use third party solutions to try to get a true VGA implementation and find that that's not quiet the perfect solution either), and, of course, the perpetual complaints that Pocket Word and Pocket Excel have been "almost useless" (seems to be resolved in WM2005). You can read numerous complaints about the T5, too (like of built-in WiFi being purt-near the top)
I'm not sure either camp can look at the other with pride and say: we've got the perfect device and you don't.
Just my 4 cents (inflation)
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