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["Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>]

I don't have a Handspring Neo, but I do support a handful of Handspring
Visor Platinums here in the office, and they are all rock solid. We
bought a batch of 6 of them about a year and a half ago and they were
close-out items at the time, so I'm not sure if you can still get one. I
recently got a Handspring Treo 600 (PDA/cell phone combo gadget that
also has a camera, does email and web very well, plays MP3s, etc., etc.)
and absolutely love it, although it was not cheap. If you want to know
more about it, please ask off list. One low-cost PDA to avoid is the
Palm Zire. We have one in the office and had a few problems with it.
Besides that, it just feels so cheap and flimsy that I doubt it will
hold up too well in the long run. I have had one early Sony Clie come
trough the office a few years ago, and my impression of it was that it
was pretty flimsy, however I played with a few of the current ones at
Best Buy and CompUSA recently, and they feel a lot more solid. Other
than that I can't say anything else either pro or con about the Sony
Clies. All of the Handsprings that I have worked with all felt pretty
solid, and the ones that we have had for a longer period of time have
all held up pretty well so far; definitely better than the Palms.

Hope some of this is helpful,
Bill


-----Original Message-----
From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Beckett
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 4:25 PM
To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
Subject: [internetworkers] handspring neo or Clie PEG-JS22?

        My PDA yet again crapped out on me.  For some reason I am very
hard on 
these things.  It is a different problem every time, so I'm not sure it 
is me or just bad luck.

        Anyhow, I need to get a new one, and I think I want one that
costs $150 
or less to tide me over for a few months until I can get one of those 
PDA/cellphone combo gadgets.  I have thought about buying used on eBay, 
but that seems too risky, and the difference between eBay and new is 
usually only $10-20.

        I've narrowed it down to a Handspring Neo or a Sony Clie
PEG-SJ22.  I 
wonder if anyone here has experience with these to tip the balance for 
or against either?  Any other suggestions?

TIA

TaB

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