Yeah, but a free Zire still works great for Palantir/Empire. Long battery life is perfect for the car and its nice to have my complete address book sitting in the car permanently. So, I'd say not _completely_ useless.

-Zeke

And if you can't find a Zire free, you can get it on eBay for $50.

Also, a Handspring Visor Deluxe, Palm V and Palm IIIxe all go for $50 on eBay.

These all work well with Palantir, I may add.

Tom works for Compaq (now HP). I think he sees a lot more than most of us. -robricc

Ah, that clarifies the battery comment. It must be self-serving corporate marketing misinformation, not actual ignorance.
Apology in advance for Tom: Sorry, I know you didn't post that reply.

That does look pretty cool....except;

BATTERY LIFE
Approx. 4 days (Based on an average use of 30 minutes per day, with backlight set OFF. The battery life varies depending on the temperature and conditions of use.)

Come on! Having a watch that has to be recharged and runs PalmOS is the ultimate in geekiness. And I though my Casio Databank was geeky.

Dude! When the hell is that thing going to come out??

Unfoturnately, I think that battery life is a big issue with that thing. Supposedly you're likely to get about 1 day of wear at a time. I don't know about you, but I don't always remember to charge my cell phone at night, or I'll be away from a charger for a couple days.

Despite that and the fact that it's supposed to be mucho expensive, it definitely is a geek dream

Don't worry. Your Casio Databank is _still_ geeky.

-Zeke

Ah, that clarifies the battery comment. It must be self-serving corporate marketing misinformation, not actual ignorance.
Apology in advance for Tom: Sorry, I know you didn't post that reply.

I was aware of the earlier Palm units running off normal AA batteries, as I owned a few myself. I'm just pointing out that now Palm offers no rechargable units with batteries that can be swapped out, and this is actually a feature many people out there request.

Also, I do work for HP, but nowhere near the division that does the iPaq development or support. I know more about the upcoming handhelds from public web sites then I do from internal sources. I also bought my first iPaq with no employee discount. To me, the iPaq was what finally snapped the WinCE market into place, and see Palm's recent actions as an indication that something was right with the iPaq design.

Now if I start talking about Intel based servers, there will probably be a bit of corporate taint there. Then again, we do lead the market by quite a bit, and seeing the servers in compairson to others first hand, I know why.

Dude! When the hell is that thing going to come out??

I just saw it on Amazon. Looks like there is a black version coming too. At a price of around $300, I think it's not going to be embraced by many.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009QR9X

does anyone have any photos of the Ipaq 2200 (i think that is the model #)? The one that hasn't came out yet...

It also looks like there's a version with a brown band that doesn't look too bad. I'd get that or the silver one if I were going to get it at all. I doubt I will, though. $275 can go a long way elsewhere, hopefully to a new P800.

They have some pics here...
http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/

Amazon has pictures of the iPaq 2215.

Does anyone know what the case looks like that comes with the 2215?

I just got an IPAQ 1940 and am VERY pleased with it. The only thing I dislike is that when you close an app, it doesn't really close. You have to go to memory management to really close it. As long as this frees resources as needed, it SHOULDN'T be an issue, except for the fact that you can't move files when they are in use. I ran into this today. Very annoying.

Other than that, it's a pretty sexy unit.

If you push the button on the bottom right you should get a list of all running apps. You can then close the apps from here.

I use Magic Button. It has an intuitive and non-intrusive UI. It allows you to easily close or switch to the running app you want.

Does anyone of you have a 5000 series Ipaq? I was curious about the case that comes with it