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Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I'm just wondering how much opinions have changed in the last four months...

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Originally posted by jadison
I've tried the Compaq iPaq, and I must say, that's a sweeeet PDA. I was able to surf the net wirelessly, had an extra 1GB HD attached to it, played MP3's, 3D games, and the usual Office Apps. ran perfectly fine.

Heh...well, I can do most of those. There aren't really many 3D games on the market right now for handheld devices, though - There's just too much engine overhead and the control scheme is difficult in such a small profile.

But my HandEra runs Office apps (spreadsheet and word processor), can use the IBM MicroDrive as well as sizeable CF and SD cards. I don't think SD will peak out before 2 GB. And I can connect to networks wirelessly with mine as well, using a CF 802.11b adapter. Mine doesn't play MP3s, but you can bet that once PalmOS 5 hits the market, HandEra (If they're still around) and every other Palm manufacturer out there will start churning out models based on StrongARM and other (Maybe SH4) processors. Then you can decode MP3 in software, and don't need the silly hardware hack like Sony has.

And so far, all the PC/phone combos I've seen running anything but PalmOS have been a far cry from useful...I haven't gotten to try the Samsung I300 (Not sure that I want to), but we're supposed to get a Treo soon to use, and that'll provide us good background to put against the Kyocera QCP-6035.