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Which PDA To Buy?

I've always been a Palm Pilot guy, ever since the very first model. I bought a Palm Vx just so I could put a modem on it and check e-mail, and this was before everybody I meet on the street had a Blackberry. A few weeks ago the time came to put the Vx out to pasture so I began to think about PDAs and scope out the currently available models.

I wrote a blog entry headlined Which PDA Should I Buy?. All my window-shopping and spec-reading boiled down my choice to three questions:

  • Would I really use fancy features like WiFi access and a built-in MP3 player?
  • Is there any advantage at all to a Pocket PC over a Palm?
  • Is there something I'm missing here, another maker, another OS?
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