Are palm tx's worth the money?

Answer 1

Definetely. I adore my t|5, but I would have liked a TX even more, the difference being that the TX has wireless LAN connection built in.
Forget about a Microsoft PDA. Did you ever see a bear in a pillbox? no? Well, it looks like a Windows in a PDA. It was adapted for PDAs, and the Palm OS was _created_ for them. There are some Sharp models with a Linux version, but I don't think you will need that, it's for freaks.
The Palms are great. They are easy to use, and are reliable, you'll only have to reboot it once every few months. Learn to read from it, and you will have your favourite book everywhere, in the bus, out in the park, in a boring school lesson, and when you read in bed, you won't have to light a nightlamp, so your partner will be able to sleep undisturbed. Travel somewhere far away by train, and you'll have something to do in those 5 hours. For reading, you need the TX or T5, the E series have a much smaller display.
And even when you aren't reading, the palm will make you happier by playing music. I have tried an iPod, but the Palm can do just the same. It doesn't have a hard drive, but today you can find inexpensive SD cards. Buy a 4GB one, and you have 48 hours of MP3 in your back pocket. Playing a video? Yes, and the display is much much bigger.
Another thing: there are Wikipedias to download for mobile clients. Isn't it lovely, when you are having a philosphical dispute with somebody after your fifth beer, that you pull an encyclopedia out of your pocket and prove that you are right?
Another thing are the organizer functions. You can synchronise the thing with your Outlook and always have all your contacts and appointments with you. Do you know the situation where you need a piece of paper for some important information, write it on the first available napkin, and lose it afterwards? With the palm, this won't happen. You can write small notes on it and always have them with you.
And with having Excel, it becoms the best pocket calculator on the world. Of course, it has a normal calculator function. But I remember once when during a lecture somebody found an error in one slide, and everybody started trying to calculate the right numbers. I was the only one who achieved it, because I had Excel in my pocket, the others gave up after five minutes of confused scribbling on paper.
And if you can afford the money for wireless web access, you will have one reason more for using it (remember, if you can't today, maybe you will be able to do so later, because communication prices are declining). Walking through the streets, hearing good music and knowing that you have the whole Internet in your pocket, what do you want more? It isn't that Wap access which was so hard to use on the tiny display of a Nokia 6230, it is seeing web pages the way they are! Well, some get ugly at this resolution, but that's why all the big sites like Google and EBay make their PDA versions.
Mobility is the future, buy the thing and you will love it! If you only start using it, it changes your life quality for good.