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To: t2 who wrote (56952)	3/30/2001 3:43:17 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) of 74651

PDA prices, from mysimon.com : iPaq starts at $494. HP Jornada (Pocket PC) starts at $359. Palm/Handspring starts at $127. ...about the handsprind and Palm units sitting on the shelves. They are basically a luxury item that one can do without. Not once you start using one. A Palm in conjunction with Palm Desktop is essential for keeping your calendar, phone numbers, etc. For business use, I guess you would wantWord/Excel on it--otherwise it would also be a luxury item. Believe it or not, word-processing and spreadsheet software is available for Palm OS as well as for PocketPC. Not that you can really do any serious word-procssing on a PDA anyway. I can kind of see the use for a handheld spreadsheet, but there are better tools for doing number crunching on a PDA, using hierarchical lists. I don't think they're available for PocketPC though. PCS will be offering higher speed internet at 144k late this year. We may finally see the start of the wireless internet by then. I hope so! That will be of great benefit to both Palm and PocketPC users, assuming of course that they both offer good Java support so you can actually run apps. Dave

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