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Amberfox was kind enough to give me geek perspective in the form of "No, your palmtop doesn't need wireless or camera."

Yes. Yes it does.

Need the wireless....

I have a laptop with wireless, and I have a camera at the same resolution that the palmtop camera takes, except it was $40 cheaper, 5 years ago.

That's what I said, except then she reminded me she had wireless. Mmm, wireless.

Granted, the laptop is more bulky, but it's still Useful!

uhhhh

that's not geek perspective.

It's a balanced, healthy perspective, but it is not One with The Zen of Geek.

allow me to illustrate my point with a tale.

A young student geek approached the Master, and politely waited for his attention. When the Master failed to attend to the young geek, he cleared his throat noisily. At which point the Master whispered "Shhhh, I've almost got Quake 3 Arena compiled on my TI-86".

And the young geek was enlightened.

Well, I could not go to one who is not Geek for Balanced, Healthy Perspective. This is broke geek perspective. I already have laptop with wireless card, I have digital camera of the same resolution. I needed someone who was Geek to remind me of this.

Besides, if I save my money a little now, and don't get excessively broke, I can probably afford a camera phone.

I've used my camera phone exactly.. zero.. times.

There have been several fairly recent times when I've longed for one. The most notable one was the security guard at the state courthouse downtown smoking right under the no smoking sign.

Depends what you mean by 'wireless'.

I wouldn't buy a PDA that didn't have bluetooth.

802.11 type. Bluetooth in my price range is somewhat rarer, at least where I'm looking.

Anything with an SDIO or CF slot can have it added later, anyway.

Another thing I wouldn't do without on a PDA: memory expansion. Ones without it tend to have hardly any storage space /anyway/, and in this day of mobile music and video (and cheap flash memory), you end up wanting more storage space than you've got.

802.11b/g for PDAs tends to be more expensive than bluetooth, in my experience.

This one came with a little memory expansion card. The 802.11 card was roughly equal to the price of the palmtop itself.

*nods*

The PDA market seems to be in flux right now. Palm got bought by some random far-east company, and most people seem to be focussing on 'smart phones', like the Sony-Ericsson P910 (http://www.sonyericsson.com/p910/).

I'm figuring that my next phone is probably going to be smart. Since I do have cellphone service now, why not?

I /want/ an S-E Pxxx smartphone, but I really can't justify one.

If you're planning to upgrade anyway, you might want to think if you could spend the PDA money on a smartphone, and sell your current phone?

Just upgraded. Another year, I think. Or, depending on finances... but the next upgrade.

Sadly, most of the best-looking smartphones run some version of Windows - which makes them awkward and annoying to use with my computer.

Boo.

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