Gave up
I just gave up waiting for a nice new Palm OS PDA. I got a Toshiba e800. I would have been fine with a TX, but it won't run FITALY and that was a deal breaker. It wasn't FITALY's fault, Palm did something to their implementation of the OS between the Palm T5 and the TX that broke FITALY and the developer just was not willing to rewrite it again.
I have a Zire 72 I could have kept using, but it won't run Documents To Go reliably and I really wanted native format documents for a big writing project.
I would have liked a standard set of fonts as is built in to WinMob, but had one set of fonts for WordSmith (which is apparently completely out of development. Hasn't been updated in forever.)
Many MANY programs don't work from one POS device to another. So much so, that even when I started one of the biggest developers (TealPoint) had all but suspended development of all it's projects to do a kind of filter that would allow them to write each program once and run it through the filter so that it would run on a Sony with and without full screen, a model with a true keypad (like the Treos) and several other output versions to run on all different possible feature sets.
I guess TealPoint got this working, but of course Palm has kept fiddling without informing TealPoint of anyone else so their software keeps breaking apps.
It is too sad. I would have so liked a Zire 73+ with a VGA screen, true fonts, real graphics standards, etc. I had to learn a whole new way of using a PDA with my Toshiba and I am still carrying both my Zire 72 and my e800 as I simply can't get the Toshiba to do some things reliably and quickly. Other things are really dreamy. Oh well.
It really is stupifying that the world can't produce decent PDAs when Sony was so close to perfect years ago.
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