Cblaisd, I would have agreed with you a few years ago. Having recently purchased both the Dell Axim and a Tungsten T5 I was shocked at the difference in these models. The Palm crashed probably 5 times as frequently. The mail on the Palm is awful, even compared to the standard Email on the Pocket PC. I have spent a lot of time trying to fugure out how to do things with the T5 even though I have used Palm OS products since the first Palm Pilot. Some stuff I have just given up on. The only reason I use it is for Life Balance/Daynotez software. Other than that I wouldnt bother dealing with it I suspect. But you are right, it is likely a largely personal thing and possibly heavily influenced by the apps you use most frequently.

Go here and click on "new build of minimo for Windows CE."

At least my browser asks to download a .ZIP file when I do that. I didn't go any further.

Elsewhere I read that "(Doug) Turner (one of the Minimo project leaders) cautions that this is 'basically the second build that... actually rendered a page successfully.' " Not quite ready for prime time apparently...

Well this is my first time posting to FT using a Pocket PC. I'm only using IE at the moment and the experience is quite reasonable.

As always, thanks for all the help and information.

Can you use the Dell Axim as a phone handset (i.e. holding it up to your ear/mouth)? I can't seem to figure that out.

What do you do when you have a wired Internet connection available, let's say in a hotel room, but not wireless?

And finally, it looks like they only support 802.11b internally - is or will there be any way to upgrade that?

1) No, but you can use it as a passthrough for your bluetooth phone and headset.

2) You can purchase a Compactflash Ethernet card, or use a pocket router to go from wired to wireless

3) 802.11g (54Mbit) is pretty useless on a device this small, there is no kind of data it would need to received at that speed.

But is g backward compatible with b? That would be my concern.

Thanks

Absolutely, unless the owner of the hotspot has specifically turned off B access (very very rare) then B will always get onto a G hotspot.

Minimo? Isn't that the midget sidekick in Austin Powers?

Palm sucks...go Windows Mobile. I still have my trusty O2 XDAII. Unfortunately it hasn't broken or gotten stolen to upgrade...yet. :D