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Summary: Not a workhorse
Review: This is the second handheld I've owned, the first one being a Handspring Visor Edge. I have to say that I'm pretty disappointed with my new Clie. Although it has lots of memory, a nice backlit color display, and a Memory Stick interface, it's just not the workhorse my Visor Edge was. For one thing, the battery is just too puny to power the thing for any length of time (except perhaps when the backlighting is off, which makes it virtually unviewable). I could use my old handheld for reading e-books, and never worry about running out of juice. Not so with my Clie. And so far, Sony doesn't even offer the option of a beefier battery. The alarms are also anemic, even at the highest volume. I could use my old handheld as an alarm clock. I wouldn't dare trust my Clie with that function. Some of the native software, which I thought would be standard across the Palm platform, is inferior to my old handheld's. The Calc on the old machine did math, trig, finance, logic, statistics, wieght, temp, length, area, and volume--right out of the box. My Clie, with all its memory and computing speed does simple math. As another example, the cut-and-paste buffer in Memo Pad is so small that you can only copy short stretches of text. Why so stingy? The PEG TJ27 just isn't the workhorse I'd hoped it would be. But I shot my wad, and I guess I'm stuck with it. Sigh...
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