Another Try

[tamaranth]

I've asked about battery-powered PDAs before, but perhaps I wasn't quite clear about my requirements.

I do not want a PDA with a rechargeable battery, no matter how whizzy it is. I do not want to have to carry a charger with me. I want to carry a spare pair of batteries. I am regularly away from a power point for longer than the 6-7 hours that a rechargeable battery will last me, and the Visor is often in more-or-les constant use on long journeys / at the beach / in the park etc.

So ...

Requirement: Palm OS, battery-powered PDAs for which a full-size keyboard is available.

Or, if you prefer, what was the last model of your preferred PDA which was battery-powered?

Comments

[neilf.livejournal.com]

As has been mentioned by others, the Palm M105, the TRG and the Visors are probably your best bet.

Not Palm OS, but a Psion of some sort (keyboard included of course) would be an alternative option.

Not aware of a modern Pocket PC/Windows CE device that ran on regular batteries, the HP I have is donkeys years old.

The Plam M105 used the 'universal connector' which means that modern keyboards should work with it, assuming they have drivers for which ever version of Palm OS the 105 has. One downside of the 100 series was that they weren't flash upgradable.

Very few (probably read none) modern PDAs use regular batteries simply because they all have colour screens and they just eat batteries. That's why all the new ones are rechargable.

- Neil.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Not keen on the Psion keyboards -- too small for prolonged writing, I've found -- plus had a bad experience with a Psion crashing and losing my data, so I'm biased against them.

The colour stuff is all very well for web connections, photos etc, but when all you want is a WP application and an e-book reader (and bog-standard diary, addresses, to-do list) then it's redundant.