之前弄了个XDA2, 外面卖1400+还带两年的plan, 觉得赚了. 几个月之后发现除非你不怕GPRS的昂贵收费或着有免费的WiFi, 基本上没有什么太大的用处. Windows Media Player到是可以看看NUSCAST, MSN Messenger和别人聊天太麻烦了.

看来这种东西要么给gadget freak, 要么给工作繁忙到以半个小时为单位来计划的经理级人物使用的.

I think that is very important "notebook" (not computer, paper notebook).
Whatever I can think of and whatever I found worth recording can be recorded on time. And you can take time to read whatever you are interested when you are free but outside.
Anyway, I guess you are in the habbit of find the resources from internet, thus you found it not so useful.

I can record anything to my hp as well...so what's the point of PPC?
but it's painful for me to try to read from PPC...

the best thing of PPC is that it is more likely to be a PC than a handheld.
You can do what ever thing on it.
Listen MP3/Watch Video/Surf are just some "basic" functions. Just like PC can be used as typewriter and game set. But you can do much more than that (Programming, design, data analysing...), those majority of people do not use those functions. It is what you take it as.
Anyway, I feel PPC reading qutie enjoyable, especially you can take notes and comments. Further more, can you draw a diagram on your HP?

find it trendy and cool... although seriously it's not of much use

i personally find that the problems this device can solve do not justify it's cost.

反正我在比赛之前几乎已经买了iPaq 4150, 弄了一段时间发现PPC具有开发起来费事而且日常使用相对繁琐的特点. 现在开始考虑Palm路线的handheld了.

you either give sony designers a fat check or microsoft programmers an exorbitant royalty fee for its windows ce platform.

what's more, why buy when your company will give you one if they think you need it? hehe

It has all sorts of software support and accessories.
Plus, it's only 1500 bucks.