...still trying to persuade the mothership to provide me with an iPhone for 'research' purposes.
I
have got one for research purposes
I'm trying to work out whether to hang onto it as a work phone, so at present, I'm carrying three - personal, work and iPhone, which is stupid.
I'm a die hard PDA user having started off with a Psion Series 3 in 199x, moving through a 3a, 3c, 5, 5mx, then a Handspring Visor, a Palm T3 and then a series of Palm TXs...
The 5mx was the best PDA ever made.
Of course, it hadn't got wi-fi and Bluetooth, so it's dated now. However, I had my life on mine. I went from that to a (PalmOS) Sony Clie UX50, which was OK in general but rubbish in keyboard terms. Since PDAs got sort of collapsed into phones, they've been almost worthless - little availability of software, keyboards even worse for typing than the Clie, screens too small to carry documents with you. The iPhone is interesting so far, and the virtual keyboard isn't bad. I've just put Documents to Go on it, which I used on the Clie.
I'd quite like to be able to work on servers from anywhere, but I've got security reservations and haven't set it up.
I don't think I change my gadgets fast enough. The 5mx ran on AAs and gave 20 hours. Anything else, if you use it enough to justify it, the battery dies in a year or two, and the salesman looks at you as if you're some kind of nutter, wanting to buy a spare, when you could replace the whole unit with something totally incompatible that you can't transfer any of your stuff to.