I was reading PalmAddicts when I came across this today:

"I have 4 handhelds, 2 of which are phones and the other 2 are stand alone pda’s. One pda and one phone have to go as I will need to raise cash to purchase the proposed new treo 700 (I’m tied into a 12 month Orange contract and any new phone before next April is going to have to be sim-free).
The question of course is which 2 will go? At the moment I’m back to using the treo 650 for phone, email, internet, RSS feeds and games purposes whilst the pda (sony ux50) is handling all the heavy duty work data. Never mind all this converged / deconverged/ single / double device nonsense… I say you can use a treo and have a separate pda if, as in my case, you use the two devices for completely different purposes."

This statement is SO true for me.

I have tried to wean myself off of my Lifedrive, but I find that the limited memory of my Treo and its small screen and limited handwriting support, make it less that ideal for most of my PDA type task.

The Treo is my communication platform. It keeps me in touch on the run and enables me to manage my email and communication in a way that is almost transparent from my desktop or notebook.

It took me a long time to drop the change to buy a Treo, and even then I waited until I found an unbeatable deal on eBay. Having discovered the joys of being a Treonaut, I will state unequivocally that I would spend $600 in a heartbeat if a new GSM Treo appeared with substantially more memory, and I am talking a minimum of 64mb.

I can live with the smaller screen. I can even live with alternative input methods. The memory footprint forces me to make compromises in what software I chose to use, and that is what keeps me working with the Lifedrive. There are certain tools:

Agendus 11 (Agenda Program)
Xiino (Web Browser)
Splash ID and Photo

that I dont load on my Treo because they would consume all of the available memory. I use LauncherX as my default launcher on the Treo despite the fact that I much prefer ZLauncher... The small screen just does not do justice to ZLauncher, and to use Zlauncher the way I do, would again require too much precious memory.

So it's about compromise. I make many in using the Treo, but my Lifedrive fills in the gaps. It also adds to my "Cred," as the most "Techno Cool," dude in Costa Rica, that I have and use Palm's two flagship devices.

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