Non-phone PDA advice

[Kilted Jeeper]

My work and personal life has become crazy enough that both my wife and my boss have suggested I get a PDA. I was hoping someone one here could give me the opinions on what they might use. I absolutly 100% do not want a phone option and and currently leaning towards the Ipod Touch (basically and iphone without the phone) option as it seems to have all the applications I need plus a few extra perks on the side.

I'd like it to be able to sync with Outlook email as well as gmail. Web browsing is not a necessity, but I need a pretty robust calendar and the ablility to track tasks or at least make "to-do" lists.

Thanks,

Pete

[Tattoo Bradley]

I'm a big Blackberry fan, which does all of what you need, but you don't want the phone option. I also own an iPod touch, and am not sure I would use it as a PDA. Though, for what you need it for, it seems like it could be an option. I carried Palms for a couple of years, and had great luck with them. My recommendation for a non-phone PDA would be a Palm T|X.

[Tattoo Bradley]

I'm a big Blackberry fan, which does all of what you need, but you don't want the phone option. I also own an iPod touch, and am not sure I would use it as a PDA. Though, for what you need it for, it seems like it could be an option. I carried Palms for a couple of years, and had great luck with them. My recommendation for a non-phone PDA would be a Palm T|X.

It syncs flawlessly with Microsoft Oulook, where-as the iPod Touch... not so much.

[Mr. bone]

My recommendation for a non-phone PDA would be a Palm T|X.

Seconded here. use it for everything.

[McFarkus]

I know it's a phone, but I recently got a G1 phone from T-Mobile that runs on Google's open source software, Android. I really like it so far (and, although this is my only phone, I don't tend to spend much time on the phone). It does a seemless job of synching with G-Mail and can be made to synch with any email.

[masonpiper]

I use my Itouch as calender, to do, contacts, everything. I use ical and Apple's other stuff on the mac, so no problem, on the PC I gave up, outlook does work, kinda and sunbird works, kinda. As I have a mac on my desk along with a PC, I have no problems doing that.

Phonewise, I have a treo 680 that I used for everything and I still have to use it for Principalm for one more year, so it is my weekday phone. on weekends, I move my card to a slim phone. As soon as the District software moves to the itouch, I will ditch my palm, they let it go too long and it is at the very tail end of it's useful life as an operating system.

[masonpiper]

sorry for gmail or google cal all you have to do is me on a wireless network, there are apps for that, and I did not look recently, but I will bet there is a good app for outlook by now.

peace

[fortcollinsjerry]

...this may not be to your liking but there are several "mini type" laptops on the market today that would fit your need - email, logistics, and so forth. You don't need any contract with a phone company to use them. Dell makes one that is very small - about 9" diagonal screen and HP has a nice one too. I'm thinking of getting one for my trip over in August just to ues the Google map feature to chase around town & country and the email and AIM/camera features to keep in touch with my honey here in the Colonies.

[JelicoCat]

Go with the palm. It is designed to be exactly what you ask. It made to PDA what a PDA is. I have gadgets from a palm to a sony mylo to various cell phones. For a no cell phone gadget I have never found anything that can do what a palm is designed to do.

[Kilted Rogue]

I have a Palm Tungsten and a older Sony Clie that i will be willing to let go of. PM me if your interested