Murray from Palm-Mac has been playing with his new Palm OS PDA, a Clie TH55. Probably the best Palm OS PDA ever made, but will he realise the true greatness of it….?
“My latest doomed gadget arrived yesterday and I have been setting it up since but desperately trying not to be too anal about it. I normally feel obliged / under pressure to get it fully operational asap but this time am determined to be more relaxed and in control, ahem. Initial impressions are of a very nice device with some typically quirky Sony interface and hardware touches….jog dial on back of the device?! Quirkiness is all very well as long as it does not get in the way of usability, something Sony at times seem loathe to embrace. The software allows you to use the fancier Sony launcher which I find less intuitive than the Palm version but that may well be down to unfamiliarity more than anything else. Nonetheless I soon reverted back to type. Sony has tweaked some of the Palm PIM stuff to add the ability to add notes and pics, for example, into the Calendar which is a nice touch. Their Free Notes app is nice though and lets you write straight into it and then link them to other PIM bits. I’m going to keep using the Sony PIM apps over the Palm apps as they offer more functionality and just look really good…”
