Originally posted by Setekh
Anyway, Carl, why? Seriously, what do I see for Pocket PCs? Sluggish and it soaks up battery power something fierce. Palms are light, fast, and it runs for weeks. 
In using my old Nino (a very slow beast indeed), it took a a moment to load an app into main memory, but once there, it was very fast.
The battery power is not an issue. Though my MP3 player will run eight hours straight on a charge, it seldom sees the far end of its battery life before I put it on the charger. A PDA is similar. It has very little use for me in isolation. When I'm at my desk at work, or asleep, the PDA would be on the charger. As long as it can last through a day of moderate to heavy usage, I'm cool.
That said, my old Nino rather handily managed two days on a charge. Modern Palm devices, unfortunately, suffer from a similar short battery life as the PocketPC devices, after you throw in the bright, backlit color screens, speakers, wireless connectivity, larger memory spaces, etc. That sort of hardware is very power hungry.
Finally, on the subject of weight, I have to say that's not an important factor for me either. My MP3 player is a 6gig hard drive with an MP3 player chip attached. It weighs twice as much as any PocketPC device and three times as much as a Palm device. What's a PDA next to that?
PS: I've decided completely against the Cassiopeia. Casio has been unresponsive to email, and calling their support lines resulted in being shunted off into the aether and never talking to a human. Bad service before the sale will translate into bad service after the sale, I think.
