Its a tough call right now.
There are essentially two mainstream OSs for PDAs right now -
The smoke (literally and figuratively) has not yet entirely cleared from Pocket PC's new OS (Windows Mobile 5) and just a casual trawl thru some of the forums devoted to PDAs using it may recall those heady 'upgrading from Win 3.1 to Win95' days - and it ain't pretty.
Meanwhile, the PalmOs seems on the way out - lead by of all people, those at Palm itself. They have shown a singular lack of interest in the OS, or in their products' build quality and (most especially) Support for a couple of years now. Again, you only need look at user forums (including palm's own) to see what I mean. Palm seem more interested in being a builder of smartphones to other retailers and are tinkering with every OS but their own. Frankly, I think the TX and Z22 may be the last PalmOS units they make...
Having said that, Palm (IMHO) remains a far superior product for manipulating addresses, calendar info, documents (thanks to the included Docs2Go), reading ebooks and using a wealth of excellent freeware in a quick and intuitive manner (and with a far better Desktop component that PPC) - while PocketPC appears stronger in the support and manipulation of multimedia but suffers from the inherent dragging anchor of trying to act like a 'lite' windows product, but without any of the benefits.
Both OSs can handle wi-fi now and have browsers that do their job (more or less) as one might expect. And prices between the two OS's products can be similar, depending on timing.
Like I said, a tough call...
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