Size of Your PDA Matters!
It’s easy to get all emotional and forget hard core facts when making any purchase, that’s nothing I would recommend you to do when buying your PDA. What you should do is go look for reviews, written by someone that doesn’t endorse every single model for his/her own profit.
We like to have brand new things of course, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, but we seem to forget the intended use and let affection take over a little to much from time to time.
Even though there are brand new models released from manufacturers all the time, with more and more features all the time. We should really ask ourselves if this is something we going to use do we really want to pay for them.
Remember this; manufacturers are releasing model after model all the time, even if you feel you want the latest sleek gadget to show off with your friends, it will be old in a few months and you have small chances of running the manufacturers speed in the tech race all the time. That’s why an older bestseller might just be better.
Integrating functionality from before standalone devices is great, but it often degrades usability as the size of the device decreases.
Matching the device to purpose is important, let’s say you are going to use your mainly as a Walkman, the importance of the audio quality is much of more importance than the screen and you might be ok to have a screen that is a bit worse if you get good audio.
One area of usage often involves taking notes, this make the size aspect very important. If the device is to small you really can’t expect the screen to be large. You’ll want to look at things like screen size and the quality of inking functionality when you are going to use the PDA for taking notes. HP iPAQ 211 is a standalone PDA with excellent qualities for this purpose, read the review below.