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Originally Posted by BobR
I'll try out PI, and Calligrapher/Pen Commander (or is Calligrapher part of WinME?) I like the circle thing better than the Palm shortcuts. Seems more natural.
That makes sense about the conversion of PIM data.... I guess that's the way to do it... find a 3rd party Palm app that will sync to Outlook and then use Activesync to PPC.
I've heard in D-Roc's review of one of the HPs that there is a slower switch between apps and it takes longer to get into PIMs. Plus some slower on/off times with PPC (compared to Palm). That would be a bummer, but not a show stopper. Shame to see that with the slick hardware. I guess I'm starting to think about this whole thing kind of like going from Linux to Windows.
Thanks Jess. Enjoy the new toy!
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The switch time, etc. really depends on the device speed and on the software. It does take a few seconds longer for me to open Pocket Informant than it does the built-in calendar, but that's because Pocket Informant is way, way more beefed up than the built-in features. Once it's open, it is just as fast as anything. Of course, this doesn't really matter with my brand new 624Mhz processor
but I did notice it on my slower little iPAQ. It's really not that noticeable, in my opinion, but it has been awhile since I worked with Palm.
Calligrapher is a separate program. As I understand it, the built-in Transcriber with the Windows Mobile/PPC OS is based off of Calligrapher, but doesn't have any of the nifty features and is comparatively quite a few releases back in time. I think it's worth it...the handwriting recognition shocks and astounds people!