For most users, the allure of the modern PDA isn't the ability to play games or even read e-mail. It's the basics: looking up phone numbers, managing appointments, logging to-do items, and jotting memos.
Windows Mobile is the better contact manager, offering a lot more data fields than the Palm OS and an easier method of searching large lists. Tapping address-book-like tabs brings you to names starting with those letters. Even if you have a thousand contacts, you usually can find the one you're looking for with just two or three taps.
The Palm OS employs a Find field in which you write one or more letters of the name you're after; it drills further into the list with each letter. This can be just as fast and efficient for sifting through massive contact databases--assuming Graffiti accurately recognizes your input.
As for calendars, the two contenders are about even. You can set alarms for appointments; view your calendar by day, week, month, or year; and create events that recur automatically at a set interval, such as weekly meetings or your spouse's birthday.
The Palm OS offers a superior to-do list, if only because it organizes everything more logically. At a glance, you can see each task's priority, category, due date, and status. Windows Mobile provides the same basic features, but it's awkward in both look and operation.
It's worth noting that all Windows Mobile devices let you record voice memos--a core function of the OS--while only some Palm OS models do.
Windows Mobile is the better contact manager, offering a lot more data fields than the Palm OS and an easier method of searching large lists. Tapping address-book-like tabs brings you to names starting with those letters. Even if you have a thousand contacts, you usually can find the one you're looking for with just two or three taps.
The Palm OS employs a Find field in which you write one or more letters of the name you're after; it drills further into the list with each letter. This can be just as fast and efficient for sifting through massive contact databases--assuming Graffiti accurately recognizes your input.
As for calendars, the two contenders are about even. You can set alarms for appointments; view your calendar by day, week, month, or year; and create events that recur automatically at a set interval, such as weekly meetings or your spouse's birthday.
The Palm OS offers a superior to-do list, if only because it organizes everything more logically. At a glance, you can see each task's priority, category, due date, and status. Windows Mobile provides the same basic features, but it's awkward in both look and operation.
It's worth noting that all Windows Mobile devices let you record voice memos--a core function of the OS--while only some Palm OS models do.
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