Erik Geiger's Blog

I recently bought Tsurasa Sarake's Palm Tungsten C. I'm lovin' it. It was a huge upgrade from my venerable Handspring Visor. I bought the Visor in 1999, after a trip to France where I saw my co-workers entertaining themselves on a train trip, playing head-to-head games over and IrDA connection. About a year ago, I picked up an 8 meg Visor Deluxe motherboard and swapped the old 2 meg motherboard out, eking another year of use out of it. I got several years of good use out of it, and it is still in service, though with a new owner.
The Tungsten C has a very sharp hi-res screen, and, coolest of cool, built in WiFi. The WiFi may be marginal for web browsing, but it is so sweet to be able to hotsynch to my office desktop PC via WiFi. Also, the included Printboy software lets me print from my PDA to our office printers via WiFi.
I said above that the Palm is marginal for web browsing, and this is true for the Palm OS web browser, but Avantgo does a great job of rendering web sites for the Palm screen. All I have to do is set up a custom AG channel for a given web site, and it immediately becomes 50% more usable. And, AG synchs wirelessly!