Christmas this year also saw the replacement of My Palm Tungsten T3 with a new Palm T/X, my sixth Palm OS PDA. Took a while to move all my existing programs over, since just replacing the old with the new wiped out the handwriting section of the screen as well as any ability to rotate the screen, but I eventually got that figfured out, and it also probably got rid of a lot of old programs and files I didn't need anyway.
For the first time, the new device actually doesn't do anything new over the old. It has more memory and WiFi is internal, so I don't have to swap out my SD card for the WiFi when I want it, and I like the OS better, but the basic lineup of abilities seems about the same. What has been different, though, is that I have been using the WiFi a great deal at home and at work to keep up with news on AvantGo and to view my e-mails from the office account at home. Unfortunately it won't work with my home e-mail account (since I can't remember my password) but I'm working on that. The web browser actually works, and although it is slow, I can get onto web pages whenever there's a wifi connection.
One disappointment is that not only can I not get my cell phone to read the Palm phone book - I can't dial the cell phone from the Palm using the Bluetooth connection. That's not exactly a major problem since I don't call many people in my phonebook, but it is somethign I was really hoping I could get to work.
Another major disappointment was that the T/X doesn't use the Palm "universal" connector, so my protable charger and keyboard won't work with it. It also doesn't come with a cradle, so I had to shell out an extra $50 for that, but it'll give me a spare charger for traveling. The keyboard, however, had to be replaced with an expensive new Bluetooth keyboard which takes longer to set up. Instead of simply plugging the Palm into it, I have to run the keyboard program (which means that program gets valuable first level button space) then start the keyboard, then wait for the two to recognize each other. And hope that the keyboard batteries are okay. While the keyboard can theoretically be used with cell phones and other devices, it's definitely a step backwards in term on what I was using it for. Every Palm I've bought since the third one now has needed a new keyboard, and I'm getting a little tired of it. But with the screen getting a screen protector for the first time (my T3 had bad, bad screen scratching problems in the handwriting area) I've got to have another way of entering text.
Overall a good unit, although not without major compatibility problems. How useful it's going to be long term will probably depend on how prevalent wifi access is (and whether I'm successful in fixing the problem at home with the system not obtaining IP addresses more than six feet from the router. But that's a different issue).