Re: Last major update of Bonsai with Palm OS support

I'm in a similar situation. I run my wife's business schedule off a  palm with Datekbk5. I can graffiti with my fingernail and if I have  to switch the learning curve would be high. My phone needs are minimal and a separate phone i just fine.  I have a  backup Palm, in case my current one dies.

I can update her schedule anywhere, without computer access. I manually sync/beam changes to her Palm each night.

My main limitation now is updating my wife's appointments if they change during the day, I have to email her.

However,  I'm starting to look at other options to be prepared. I'm guessing the iPhone will be the solution, but I'm not looking forward to it, the screen keyboard  sucks. I believe there are ways for iPhones  to sync appointments with each other in real time

I bought an iPod Touch last  week to start to play and check what it can do. Its amazing in what it can do, but has limitations.

The touch is an iPhone, with no camera, no mike, and no phone. I can run it form wifi, so at home I have  total access- but I work 90% out of my house.  Outside the house, it is very limited as there is pretty much no open wifi. It runs most iPhone apps, that do not need GPS, of phone or camera.  I have fill access to Gmail, web sites, Twitter, weather FM radio,etc. Battery life is very bad - wi fi eats it. I don't use it much for MP3  music, since I  have an iPod for that.

At this point I see no  way to sync my Palm appointments or contact list.  If I could get them into Gmail it would work. I could sync Gmsil from Outlook, but I dropped Outlook last year, syncing with the Palm was taking up to an hour and it routinely corrupted  by doubling appointments so I had to do a full backup before each sync

So now I'm carrying around a phone, a Palm and a touch, messy.

If I switch to iPhone, in Canada it will ocst  around $70 a month, and We would need 2 of them.  My current phone id $12 per month.


--- In [email protected], Laura M <flewtist@...> wrote:
>
> I'm going to jump in on this an expose my total ignorance. I've been living
> with my head in the sand because I was simply not going to move from Palm.
> But the Natara announcement has me worried, too.
> 
> I currently use a Zire 72 and it meets my needs wonderfully. But I'm looking
> at an aging device, and an aging laptop at home, and all the issues
> surrounding Palm with Vista have me worried as well.
> 
> I DON"T want to have a combination phone/pda because I like my tiny Nokia
> phone, and I prefer to leave the PDA at home sometimes. I also don't want to
> pay for data charges (which is what I assume most of these phones talked
> about use). Is this correct? Do SmartPhones use cell minutes, or data rates?
> About how much data gets transferred (so I have some idea of what the
> charges would be)?
> 
> And what exactly is the difference between the iPhone and the iPod Touch?
> Every advertisement I see for applications seems that the same apps run on
> both.
> 
> Thanks much for answering some pretty basic questions...
> 
> Laura
> 
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