Palm or Pocket PC better for wikipedia

[Noxxle]

i just recently found out that wikipedia could be downloaded onto palm/pocket pc devices and now i NEED it. if all i would be using the device for is this, should i just go for a palm? it would be cheaper that way right? either way, any recommendations? how much am i looking at spending.

[Darius Wey]

Surely that's not all you'd be using your Pocket PC for? I'm sure once you pick up a Pocket PC, you're going to find a bundle of other uses for it.

Either way, one of the cheapest devices is an HP iPAQ rx1715 (which I'd suggest you steer clear of). Some models which may interest you are the HP iPAQ hx2000 series, the HP iPAQ hx4700, the Dell Axim X50 series. If you're interested in using it as a phone as well, then there are the HTC Pocket PCs, but it seems that's not what you're after. The prices of the aforementioned devices vary depending on where you're located, and whether you go for the low-end or high-end model.

[xoiph]

From Wikipedia:

Target Platforms
The TomeRaider files are platform specific:

(P)PC - For Windows PC and Pocket PC handhelds. This version of TomeRaider fully supports HTML. It renders the articles almost similar to the online Wikipedia. December 2003, TeX and unicode font support were added for this platform.
Palm - TomeRaider 2 for Palm does not support HTML. As a result the articles are shown with very basic formatting. Complex tables are a bit messy. The files still have to be converted into pdb format (version 2.8). The TomeRaider 2 implementation puts a restriction on the file size. Therefore the largest wikipedias had to be split into several chunks (English: 20!). Hyperlinks between these volumes are turned into external references and have to be resolved manually. See also TomeRaider 3 below.
EPOC - The formatting is similar to the Palm version. No size constraints here, so even the huge English Wikipedia is available here as one volume.

It sounds like the PPC version looks and works better :-)