What competition?

It's true that Palm is competing with Pocket PC, but with Sony's exit from the market, Palm's pretty much got this platform to itself. Tapwave seems to make an excellent product, but it's perceived and marketed as a gaming device that happens to function as a PDA. From what I can tell, Palm's the only company left that's still making business-oriented PDAs based on the Palm OS.

Sadly, if c|net user reviews are any indication, both Tapwave and Sony offer(ed) much greater reliability than Palm. The reports were so frightening that I broke with tradition and actually bought a two-year sevice agreement with my new T5.

Meanwhile, my old Sony TJ25 still functions perfectly. ...

Stephen