pda phone with a keyboard and stylus.........or pda phone with a stylus only,which one is better?

Answer 1

Depends on you, this is a really personal choice question.

However, the Treo will give you both, the Treo will work fine without the stylus at all but you can use the stylus in any way that makes you comfortable

Not only that, a lot of people don't know about a hidden feature built into the Palm basedTreo. The non phone Palm devices have hand writing recognition. So you can use the stylus on the Palm PDAs as a pencil to enter notes. That feature was taken away from the Palm based Treo devices.

What people don't know is that the handwriting recognition engine is still built into the Treos, only the handwriting user interface program was removed from the Treo.

You can use a FREE progam called Graffitti Anywhere as the user interface program and that will ADD handwriting recognition back into the Palm based Treos. This is a wonderful reason to favor the Treo over the 'Smartphones'.

Answer 2

If you are looking for something that is a mix of both, you are looking for either a PDA-phone or a Blackberry. PDA phones (such as the Palm Treo line-up) in my opinion have a little added advantage over blackberrys simply due to the fact that they have the touch screen and are able to run a much wider variety of programs, as well as are able to have other devices installed into them as well to improve connectivity. Blackberrys do have a great deal of business appeal to them, though, and are common within the majority of corporate offices, and are also exceptionally reliable from what I've heard. They're also Canadian made for the most part, if that will make any difference to you. As for what a good plan would be, given that people who use PDA phones and Blackberrys tend to receive a lot of e-mail to their devices, and also check through a lot of web sites on their devices as well, it would be good to get a relatively large data plan on your device, as well as a reasonable voice plan since you will still be using it as a phone. Now to point out something, I do have a PDA phone (an HP iPaq h6325), and while some people will say that the battery life of these devices is not as good, I must beg to differ. My battery on my HP lasts as long if not almost longer than the battery life of many of the phones I've had over the years, and that was with use as an MP3 player, cell phone, wireless e-mail receiver, entertainment device... almost all at the same time. So it really does depend on the device you are looking at. Hope that helps you out. Almost forgot (thank you to the answerers who were above me) there is also the option of the smartphone. These are devices that have either the Symbian operating system or the Windows Mobile operating system installed on them. The difference between these and a PDA phone is that these are in the body of an actual cell phone, and usually also don't have a touch screen interface on them. Any typing is done with the phone's numeric keypad. There are PDA phones though, which I do find a bit of a better option because they do have the touch screens and generally behave much more like a PDA with the functionality of a phone as an added bonus. And I'll also be quick to point out that while older smartphones and PDA phones do not have any high-speed options as of yet, many of the newer ones (released within the past year or so) are offering either EDGE technology (if they use a GSM carrier) or 1x-EVDO technology (if they are using a CDMA carrier).

Answer 3

Well keyboard/stylus is better to use, but I think the key is stylus entry. Smartphones don't have stylus but Pocket PC Phone Edition does have stylus.

Answer 4

I've got a treo and I like it better than my cusons phone. His just has the stylus only.