A new PDA?
Having been asked what I want for Christmas by my dad this morning has got me thinking.
His suggestion was a radio, so that I could listen while in hospital. In order for it to be an improvement over the bedside consoles they have, it'd have to be a DAB one so I could listen to BBC 7 and the chances of getting a good signal are, I imagine, pretty low. Certainly, when we got a DAB radio for my Grandad, we had to install an external aerial to get a good enough signal.
He'd also thought about an iPod or similar, as have I, but they are far too limited in what they can do. My Palm can play MP3s anyway so what I would want would be more storage.
Generally, I'm very pleased with my Palm Zire 72, but it does have some shortcomings. The biggest single problem is that there's no-one writing software for PalmOS 5. pssh has been unchanged since June 2005 and Opera Mini is about the only usable web browser that exists for the platform, and even that is woefully inadequate - with a 256-char limit on text boxes - making posting to my blog (for example) more difficult. I have just noticed that Opera Mini 3 is now available, so I will have to give that a try.
The other big problem with the Palm is the input method. Graffiti is OK for entering contacts or calendar entries, but when you start trying to write whole paragraphs with it it does get a bit laborious. TejpWriter helps there to some extent, in that its "tapboard" is better designed than the palm's normal on-screen keyboard.
Anyway, my conclusion is that something that has more storage space, a better input mechanism and is being developed for would be nice. So now I need to come up with a list of requirements and look for something that fits the bill.
[ Entry posted at: Wed 20 Dec 2006 14:14:57 UTC | 0 comment(s)... | Cat: Geeky ]