Any advice on moving from older Palm device to current?

["Guy K. Haas" <guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com>]

Time to tap the collective wisdom of Techwr-L.

My (adult) daughter wants a PDA.  I started a couple years ago with a 
refurbished Handspring, settled in and loved it, then lost it within the 
first year.  I went right out and bought a brand-new model, plugged it 
into the synchronizing cradle, and immediately had all my data back in 
place.  More recently, I moved up to the Palm Tungsten E, with better 
screen resolution and full color. Again, moving the data up was pretty 
straightforward.

     Besides stock software, I've added Mapopolis and have
     ready access to all the U.S. county maps that new cars
     have in their GPS navigation systems, even though I do not
     have the GPS itself in the PDA.  The software was free, and
     the maps are relatively cheap. One year of free access to
     maps of any and all counties in the US ran about $40.

Rather than have her spend about $200 on a new Tungsten E, I'm prepared 
to buy her a refurbished older Palm device to try out and see if having 
its calendar/datebook and contact/phonebook info is as useful as she 
expects.  If she decides it's not "her thing", it's cheaper by far than 
jumping right to the new model.  If, on the other hand, she embraces the 
technology, I'm confident she can easily port the data from the older 
PDA to a new one.

She has no need for the camera capabilities of the Zire or the cellphone 
functionality of the Treo.

We can get a refurbished Palm IIIxe for $48, then get $20 back as a 
rebate.

A tiny bit of googling turned up one horror story about Palm IIIxe:
http://www.faughnan.com/palm.html#PalmIIIxe

Can anyone in the Techwrl-L community share THEIR experiences with 
either the Palm IIIxe OR with making the generational jump from PalmIII 
to Palm's latest OS 5.

Thanks!
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Guy K. Haas
guy -at- hiskeyboard -dot- com | gkhaas -at- usa -dot- net
     http://swexegete.typepad.com/GuysBlog
Software Exegete in Silicon Valley


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