Ten years ago marked the birth of the first commercially successful PDA in the market — the 5.7-ounce Pilot organizer.
I use the term PDA in the strict modern sense of course, because, let’s face it, Casio had a commercially successful Digital Diary series prior to the Pilot. There’s also the Zaurus, but then it wasn’t […]

Zoiks! Can my eyes believe this?! The T5 and TX now have the same SRP of P18,900.00. The main difference is that the T5 has less memory while the TX has WiFi. If you’re after pure aesthetics, the TX has a more corporate feel with its bluish-black casing as compared to the T5’s plain brownie […]

As part of the hell-freezes-over initiative taking place in the tech world, owners of Treo 650s can look forward to using Blackberry push email on their units beginning sometime early 2006.
Palm and Research in Motion (RIM) have made a licensing agreement to allow Treos to use Blackberry Connect, a email and communication technology and service […]

Once again, here’s a ranking of the world’s best-selling mobile phones and PDAs, according to Krussell International AB of Sweden. This time it’s for the month of September 2005.
Top 10 Mobile Phones
1. Sony Ericsson K750i/K750c/W800
2. Motorola Razr V3
3. Nokia 6230/6230i
4. Nokia 6680/6681/6682
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Palm releases the Treo 700 running Windows Mobile!

As I’ve written in my previous entry, I’m an avid reader and most of my reading materials are eBooks. On my PDA, my favorite application for reading is a nifty application called iSilo. There are a lot of reading materials on the internet that are already in iSilo format but sometimes I feel […]

I got my first Palm PDA (a 3Com Palm III) and I was really thrilled to have one. After playing around with it for a couple of weeks, I discovered that it can be used as an eBook reader. The Palm III is woefully short on memory and I was only able to load one eBook at a time. But that did not stop me.

For those of you who have been living with Graffiti, virtual keyboards or other pen-based word entry techniques, you’d know the pain and suffering that’s involved just getting your thoughts into your PDAs.
Well, IBM claims to have found a better way.

The SHARK (Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding) is a pen-based shorthand system that uses an onscreen keyboard. […]

“I’ve found the perfect PDA,” I gushed. My friends perked up. Knowing how much of a geek I am, anything I was that crazy about was bound to be interesting. They leaned over and watched as I reached into my bag and brought out…

… my Hipster PDA.
“SACHA?!”