...continuing the geek digression... (many of us are Palm users - but you knew that)

Well, you have a Palm V now - basically a T is just a little thicker than my m500 (the subtitle on the T is "m550"). While there are lots of nifty features on the Sony line, they are way too bulky for my tastes and I refuse to use their proprietory memory stick (can we say "Betamax"?). Already have a small investment in SD/MMC cards anyway.

While I'm drooking over the T, I have two small concerns and one head-scratcher:

1) Battery life on my m500 is easily 3 weeks between charges vs perhaps 1 week to 10 days of similar use with the T (color vs mono, I supose). When my m500 was new I got nervous around the one week point but since then the battery has conditioned to the present state. Now that there is a moble charger for the m series (12Vdc nominal input) some of my concerns may be muted.

2) That sliding cover for the Grafitti area - will it hold up? No one knows the answer to that yet.

And the head scratcher is WHY didn't they make an integrated flip-cover like the m500 has? I carry my m500 in my shirt pocket 99% of the time because I use it constantly and that's the quickest and slimest "case" to use that provides a little protection to the screen and buttons that any PDA has available.

If Palm comes out with a greyscale 320x320 version of the M500 with BT built-in (instead of an SDIO card) and a long-range IR port it would be about perfect for what I want. I've beat the crapola out of my m500 - I am so hard on watches that I quit wearing one - and I want to send it off to Palm for an overhaul (new screen, mainly). But it will drive my guys crazy if they can't punch things into my calendar and my secretary will slit her throat rather than try to keep track of me, so I'm probably going to buy a new m5xx before I send mine off and then give the m500 to eldest when it comes back (he uses a IIIxe and would love my m500). So I'm debating over another m500 or a T and it's a difficult decision. I could get 2 each m500s for what a T costs...

Anyway, thanks much for your feedback on the T.

Regards,

Tom