smartphone users (any brand) do you still use your palm PDA?

[StoneRyno]

If you are a smartphone user and still use your palm PDA I'm curious what you do with your PDA.

Personally I still use my T5 to play a few free games that aren't free on my BB. I could also use the T5 to watch videos if I actually bother to take the time to encode them. I also have my DVD collection tracking on it. Other than that I use my BB for everything else.

[LupeValenz]

Yup yup, I still use my TH55 as my appt book and journal along with my Voice recording journals. I just can't give up on the TH55, its still one sexy and functional device. :)

[Joel]

Sadly no. Since I switched to the iPhone, it's all that. It's the perfect TH55 replacement for me. I still have an uncharged LifeFlash over here (it was a great achievement for me to be able to convert it into a flash drive! hahaha -- sentimental value I guess.)

I'm honestly waiting for Palm to bounce back again. After seeing the Treo Pro, we're thinking there's still hope. :)

The TX comes with a free external Bluetooth keyboard now (Palm's current promo). Maybe it's a sign that there's a new line of PDA's coming along?

[Telyx]

I have an unlocked GSM Centro, so my Zodiac is somewhat redundant. I do like its 320x480 screen, though, and use it as a mp3 player when I'm sitting out on my deck and sometimes I play a game or two on it. The Centro is my main "second brain" now.

[dmitrygr]

Yes. Treo is the worst pda ever...
A reasonable phone though

[headcronie]

Unlike Dmitry, I'm 100% on my Treo 755p. My TE sits on the charger, doing backups, but nothing has changed in months.

It is quite nice to only carry one device around. And, I don't see any more problems on my Treo than I had on my TE.

[spearchunk]

this is great information everyone. thanks. i'm torn between smartphone and iphone.

[Aces]

I now have a 680. But I still occasionally use my TH-55 to check sports scores using WiFi. The big problem is that I have to ensure the battery stays charged. So once a week (or so) I plug it in. It's ironic that my 680 has nvfs, so it wouldn't matter if it ran all the way down....

[sasmout]

T/T3 as a main PDA, calendar, task & project management, notes and memos.

T680 as a phone, contact management, reading, password manager, messaging and alternative calendar.

Old and trustworthy HE330 - as a backup device, reading and some preOS5 programs

And a couple of more POS devices "one hand distance" :cool:

Plus all kind of testing non-POS devices .....

[starbuckk]

I was very reluctant to give up my CLIE NX80 for a smartphone. Going to the postage stamp screen was a very difficult transition. But in the end, as a traveler, the nuisance of carrying two devices became too much. So no more CLIE.

I so wish there was a "Lifedrive Treo"...

[ataualpa]

Recently my firm gave me a Palm Treo 500v (vodafone) equipped with windows mobile 6 and nokia intellisync for checking business email.

But:
- my Palm TX remains the best for managing contact, appointments, todo, projects, notes and all the tipical PDA jobs, using GTD approach;
- my Nokia 6230i remains the best as a cellular phone.

The Palm Treo is used only for email and internet browsing thanks to its 3G capabilities (and thanks to the business sim card).

So long life to my Palm TX!!

[Bla8]

I have just gotten myself a low-cost windows mobile smartphone and must say i am very disappointed with the slow performance and small screen. I still love my TX because of that :) .

[scottl]

After converting to a Treo 755p a couple months ago I (surprisingly to me) almost never touch any of my other PDAs. It's a thrill to fire up the TX or T3 and see those "monstrously large" screens!

I didn't expect to like the Treo and figured I'd return it within the 30 day grace period, but it's still here 3 months later. What bugs me (and my aging eyes) the most is the stupid little square screen. Other than that I'm obviously happy enough to have laid down my TX. Sure I'd like the Treo to be faster and thinner/lighter with a bigger display, but it beats carrying 2 devices 95% of the time.

[philpalm]

It is great not being tetered to a cell phone. I am hooked on PSP because they have Amine ready to be downloaded in AVI. How can anyone stand being interrupted when watching another episode of "Naruto"?

People (and customers) tend to interrupt your day when you carry a cellphone. Why lose time when people contact you when you don't want to contact them? Then again a GPS on a Treo deal sounds nice (under $60!) But Sony is promising a GPS for PSP (only in Japan now). Did I mention that the UMD format on PSP is coming back? (their movies is the best thing to HD on a small screen)

[gammada]

I left the Palm world for a HTC Touch smartphone with WM6 that I promptly sold because the OS was painfully slow compared to my old T3, the screen was but a joke of the latter and the applications (SplashID, Resco Viewer, Agendus among others) were simply not up to the quality or functionality those same apps display on the POS world.

A few months after that, I got an iPhone as a gift. It has been thru jailbreaks, pwnaged mods and OS version 2.0 only to find myself missing many of the features found on, yep!, that old and trusty T3.

I'm in love with iPhone's cool interface, multi-touch functionality and awesome screen but as a PDA replacement, the iPhone does poorly. Suffice to say there's no copy/ paste function, no built-in voice recording capabilities, no Bluetooth functionality other than for a headset and the fact that you cannot edit office files on it, is making me consider to give my T3 yet another try.