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Palm rocked when it did what it did simply, quickly, with lots of battery life, and people didn't expect more. Now, with so much power available, and people not making choices but rather expecting a full PC in a matchbook, once you get out of niche/vertical apps, Palm is showing its age. It can work used like it used to, but so can a cheapo organizer. Make it do lots and it suffers the effects of creep. PPCs have their ups & downs. Blackberries are the modern Palm, with similar clouds on their horizon.
I don't think there is a best answer. It becomes so much of a preference thing.
It ought to come down to the primary purpose, hardware fitness (battery/durability/input/output...) and as always app availability/development. If it's just going to become a pocket laptop then guaranteed once the novelty wears off, half the users will hate it. A coin flip is about as safe as, and less expensive, than a 3mo evaluation. Just buy one of everything, get to know the games, and on month 2, day 29 write lots of jibberish justifications to make the boss happy. Otherwise, if there's a set of needs then start burning through what works & doesn't.
But hey, I'm a cynic.
A friend cooked my last Zire with a pint of lemonade,
Still haven't fully recovered.
Just waiting for my eyeball & spinal implants,
and writing long annoying nat. lampoon sigs
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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