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Ignatz,
If you do go PPC again, I think you'll be okay. It takes a lot of hunting, but pretty much everything you need software-wise from Palm is around in the PPC world. The usage paradigm may be different though.
For example, I depended heavily on a week view from Datebook5. It was the only way for me to get some apptmt detail and a little bit of overview of multiple days at the same time. Well, Pocket Informant arranges the days funny. Not down the first column and then down the second column like a normal week calenday, but back and forth with Mon/Tues in first row. Then Wed/Thrs, etc. I kept getting the days confused and was almost completely fed up with the date book on PPC. But then I found that I could work off one of the monthly calendar views. You can see the times of a couple of apptmts so you see what days are free. And you can tap on the day and see not only the apptmts for the day listed, but the whole month is still visible. Another tap and the month calendar fills the screen again. It's working great.
I know that's a long example, but the idea is that you may get frustrated because you can't do things in the ways you have perfected on Palm. But if you're willing to be a little flexible and play with hundreds of programs and configuration of options, you'll probably be pretty happy with things eventually. I'm especially picky and depend on a lot of functions for daily use, so I've spent a lot of time trying to find new ways of doing things. Not done yet, but it gets better every week. Sometimes, you just have to count some things as lost, but it turns out you can make do okay anyway.
I'm a little jealous of those that started from scratch with PPC... I think it's a lot easier that way! But with persistence the Pocket PC world can start looking really nice.
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