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Do People Really Use Their PDAs?

Posted by Cliff on from the useful-tool-or-status-symbol dept.

TAL asks: "With Dell entering the market with their new PDA, the PDA market appears saturated. I work in a high-tech industry and I see more people carrying their PDAs than actually using them. At the same time, I see many people actually going back to their paper planners. I've ran the PDA gauntlet myself and have found that much time is wasted syncing, charging and reinstalling the software. Have there been any studies on PDA turnover? I think the PDA has become more of a status symbol than a useful tool."

2 of 802 comments (clear)

  1. I use mine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I use my Palm quite a lot. I take all my notes in university with it (including diagrams). I have a keyboard, so its feasible and use Diddle to draw directly on screen. In the end, I export everything on my PC as web pages.

    I also wrote some stuff on it with LispME and am planning to learn Smalltalk just so that I can use PocketSmalltalk to write more great apps on it.

    The only thing I could possibly complain about is the commercial software. It's incredible how much smaller software (like DateBook4 and FastWriter) could be so much more unstable. Perhaps it'd be better on Pocket PC, assuming most Palm equivalents are provided by Microsoft.

  2. Re:A perfect PDA by blackmerlin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    heheheh, isn't it always the way

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    blackmerlin