I have written and read e-mail during my commute, beamed my virtual meishi to new acquaintances, played cards in taxis, and once in a shameless display of computing on my feet I consulted a database of Tokyo restaurants, which I had downloaded from www.bento.com, and located a great Indonesian joint in five minutes, ready and able to feed a party of 10
Was it my ThinkPad, my Vaio, my Powerbook? No, look Ma, no laptop! I did it all with my little Palm organizer.
To be honest, I probably use my Palm IIIx more for nocturnal game-playing in taxis than efficiently managing my time, but that doesn't mean that 3Com Corp.'s series of PDAs don't have serious potential.