I admit, what caused me to switch from the Newton MP 2000 to the Palm Pilot III (besides that I won one in a drawing, much to my surprise) was the ability to synchronize the calendar with my "work" calendar (which was on Solaris Calendar Manager at the time). I'd happily leave the Palm behind if I could do this on my iLiad-- I'd carry a slightly larger bag to have the iLiad with me all the time (I keep it in a day planner case anyway). The only other semi-critical function on my Palm (I have a IIIxe now) is the Chinese dictionary that accepts character input and provides pinyin pronunciation and English translation. It seems likely to me that something like this could be ported to the iLiad as well, but I don't know of a linux application that works as well as the one I use on the Palm.
I've played Colossal Cave and other IF games on the Palm, but it never really occurred to me to read on it until after I'd discovered dedicated ebook readers. And I'd have to buy a newer PDA with a
lot more memory or support for storage cards to keep my full library available. And I really do prefer a larger screen, so rather than buy a new PDA, I bought a half-price used iLiad.
