As the Palm Treo 700 is only available within europe with Windows Mobile I thought I'd consider my options by checking out other Windows Mobile offerings. A friend pointed out the T-Mobile Vario II, the HTC TyTn, the Vodafone Qtek HTC v1605 or the Orange SPV M3100 which look very interesting. Furthermore I see that Style tap, a Palm Emulator is now available so I could continue using Palm-os applications 
I have been using Google Calendar for the past month. One of the best features of Google's calendar is the fact that you can own, administer or simply view more than one calendar at a time. The information is colligated together and presented as one. Which is great for sharing individual family / co-workers calenders and see other events, like bank holidays, without having to add them to my individual calendar.
On my Palm T3 I had been using Datebook 5 categories to capture calendar information for my family by my self. But how cool it would be to have others provide their entries for me...
Ideally I would simply synchronise several different calendars, each assigned to a different category to my Palm...
After some searching I found the following Palm-OS to Google calendar sync possibilities:
Looks like I'll need to wait a little longer for my ideal solution to emerge...
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I went back to PC World today for one last look at the PCs, and to copy the Photo-Booth photos from the iMac to my Palm T3 via Bluetooth
I think that I will give-up the option of buying a PC from PC World, I need more time to look around and I don't like to be limited to what is on offer in this store. Updated: 9th March |
I have heard rumours of the PalmOS Treo 700p and found several reviews for the Treo 700w, the Windows CE version. I am surprised to see that the 700w does not have WiFi, only Bluetooth by default. Wifi can be added with an SD card, as it can to the Treo 650, but then you can only have one SD card in at a time, so no downloading to SD memory! But, the 700w is not even in the shops yet and neither is the 700p.
If you want a Phone / Palm combination then currently their isn't really any choice other than the Treo 650. Plus it has a camera too... think I'm sold.
If you don't want the phone (you can connect with your current phone via BlueTooth) then their seems to be little option. If you want a physical keyboard then its the "Tungsten C". If you don't want the keyboard but want WiFi then its the "T|X". Otherwise your choice for a business class PalmOS PDA is the "Tungsten T5".
What would I get? Either the Treo 650 or I'd source a second hand Tungsten T3.
PS. For wireless connectivity without WiFi get a Bluetooth access point, I can vouch for the Tecom BT3021.
A timely update this is not, but on time it is!
Day Light Saving time occurred for us the Sunday before last, 30th Oct.
For my Palm Tungsten T3 it was a disaster. It seems that during the night, at 1am I'd guess, Palm-OS awoke to adjust the time and suffered a fatal error. It was truly fatal as my T3 then remained on for the rest of the night until its batteries were exhausted leaving its volatile memory blank!
Peter suffered the same fault which he tracked down to being caused by the Palm Security update.
Peter also found a tool called Crash, which he beamed over to me, which rather nicely resets my device upon fatal errors.
Stace
Tag: palmos
While looking on e-bay a few weeks back, I was selling my first PDA, the Psion XP. I came across e-bay shop sprintcoms selling a PalmOne keyboard for 4 pounds! As these normally retail around Twenty to Forty pounds I contacted the shop to inquire on the condition. The reply soon came back with the answer of "New", but furthermore they had stock on the Ultra-Thin keyboard for Ten pounds! At such a Bargain I informed Peter and bought two!
Stace
Tag: PalmOne
The Palm Tungstem T3 is my third Palm OS based handheld. Previously I owned a Palm III (with TRG memory upgrade) and then a Sony Clie T265C... I had thought that I was done with upgrading for a while, I thought my next pda would include a built in phone. But then my fellow colleague Peter Harvey went and bought a Palm T3 on my recommendation and I was just so gelouse.... So after a while, once the price had dropped, I purchased a shiny new T3.
[Que dramatic Terminator 3 music...]
The Tungsten T3 is really great. So what is it about it I really like:
Of course that's just the hardware, best of all I can run all the great applications that I have been using since I got my first Palm device.
I Sync my palm in the office using PilotManager. And at home I also sync it to the family PC using the PalmSource provided Windows software. The down side at work is that I am still using a serial interface that I had to purchase separately. Hopefully with the Solaris 10 improved USB support a USB Sync on Solaris SPARC wont be too far off.
I'll follow up soon with a post with my favourite applications, utilities and accessories.
Stace
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