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I have been a Palm PDA user for many years now, and I have been wanting to upgrade to a smart phone.  The Palm offerings like the Centro and Treo’s just didnt have the flash and moderness of the competition like the iPhone and Google phones.  So I waited.  And I carefully considered switching services.  Rumors of a new PalmOS floated around.  And then nothing.  And still nothing.PalmOS was showing its age.  And yet my PDA’s still worked fine.

Then, the Palm Pre arrived.  I was skeptical.  Its linux based.Its based on the open source linux, which makes it quite easy to develop for.  Its all web based (I am a web developer).  Wow, the perfect phone!

I love my Pre.  It syncs my Google Mail with my work’s exchange server into one seamless mail experience.  It syncs my calendars too.  Fantastic!  It multitasks.I can watch video on youtube.  It does everything I wanted a phone/PDA to do.

Of course, nothing is perfect.  It currently does lack Adobe Flash support although that is supposed to be coming (they have Flash on linux in general so I dont see it being much harder to get it to work on the Pre), and it doesn’t have a generic Jabber client (google talk is based on Jabber so I am not sure why they don’t have this yet).  The App Store is a little sparse so far, but there is a homebrew apps site with unofficial apps you can install.  And the biggest little complaint I have is the battery life, which for me averages about 12 hours.The battery life is a little weak, but you can get an extended battery.

It also uses any wi-fi connection you might have, seamlessly using it for faster internet access, which also saves on battery time.

Overall, My Pre is fantastic.  Its hacker friendly, its slick as hell, and its on Sprint.

It was in 1984 that PDA first came into being with Psion in United Kingdom. A new genre in handheld computer was defined and emerged with this launch. Apple and Palm Computing joined soon by launching their own versions. By the end of 1990s Palm Pilot established itself as the most popular PDA. Word processors, Games and web browsing were included.

Personal Information Manager applications including a notebook, diary, some games, address and phone book, common reference material and handwriting recognition software were what were incorporated into the PDAs earlier. Programs such as To-do list, Diary/scheduler, Drawing application, Notepad, Calculator, Finance software, Alarms, Organizer, File manager, World time, Data synchronization, Voice recorder and Printer connection were added. With wireless connections web browser and the Email were added. The other programs that were included were Spell checker, Word processor, Spreadsheet and Custom dictionary. Tracking of movement as well as planning of trips whether traveling by sea, air, or land irrespective of the means of transport, and customized maps and directions were possible with the addition of Global Positioning System (GPS). Travel plans could be detailed with the Route Planner application launched by Palmtop Software. This could be done merely with the starting as well as the destination points. Or this could be done by pointing and simply clicking on a map on the places of visit or places to be avoided in order to produce a precise route map. All you need is a few clicks with the fingers to make the route map as well as the travel plan ready. Applications such as the Word, Excel and PowerPoint from Microsoft joined the assortment of functions.

The PDAs available in the market included HP iPAQ hw6515, HP iPAQ hw6900 Mobile Messenger, Palm TX, HP iPAQ h6315, Dell Axim X51v, Palm Tungsten E2, HP iPAQ Pocket PC 2215, RIM BlackBerry Curve (8300), HTC Advantage X7501, Apple iPhone, Palm Treo 755p and many more.

The PDA application soon spread to other areas of life including shopping, mobile banking, and specialized Internet services as stock quotes, foreign exchange rates, weather, sports scores and maps. The PDA became an e-book reader, a photo wallet, a mobile web browser and an alarm clock besides many others. Convergence of technologies and programs has made PDAs smaller, compact and versatile encompassing almost all aspects of living.

We all have lots of appointments every day, hundreds of chores to do, dates to keep in mind. It is almost impossible to keep track of everything, to remember every telephone number you might need. It might not be a tragedy for some of us, but for others, it could be vital, and a missed appointment could turn out to have been essential for your future.

A secretary could solve all these problems, but not all of us can afford one. The other choices would be to note everything down, or to keep it in mind. While the human mind is a wonderful thing, I don’t know anybody that could remember everything. So we still depend on that notebook, that we need every minute.

Of course, that notebook is made of paper, and it tends to rip after a while, the handwriting gets blurred, so every year you have to spend time to copy everything to a new one. It might not seem a big deal, but it is time consuming, and you would like to find something more reliable than that.

 A Personal Digital Assistant would be the solution to this problem, and the hp ipaq 111 classic handheld is the best on the market. You won’t have to remember everything anymore, the HP PDA will. All the important or less important appointments, telephone numbers, dates, will find their place in its memory, and it will take care to remind you everything you need to know.

You don’t have to be a tech-wiz to learn how to use it; in fact it is quite easy. Throw away your old notebook, say goodbye to the times you forgot about a date or a red-letter day. Your PDA will take care that you would never miss an important appointment, it will keep track of every point on your busy daily schedule, if you’re not too busy to charge it, from time to time.