Ok PDA, mediocre reliability

I've had and been using this PDA for nearly 2 years now. I believe I can provide a fairly accurate review of this handheld device.

BAD NEWS FIRST: RELIABILITY IS THE BIGGEST GRIPE

As a user had indicated before, this device at first certainly seems to work just fine. In my experiences, however, the screen froze on me after about a month and I could not even restart it using the emergency restart button. When the batteries finally died down, I charged the PDA back up and turned it on. I had lost all of the information I put on it. In retrospect I suppose I could have just taken out the batteries.

This seemed to happen more when I got an SD card for it and started using the built-in realplayer to listen to music. (An SD card is required for listening to MP3s.) After this, the freeze-ups happened more and more frequently. If you are going to buy this now very out of date machine, remember to "hotsync" your PDA as often as possible. (Although it should also be noted that I once had the PDA freeze up on me as I was hotsyncing.)

THE GOOD NEWS: FEATURES & PRICE

The features on this little PDA are various and useful. The calendar helps me remember many events I would have forgotten. I also constantly make use of the notepad, writing down fleeting bits of information I may want to come back to later; the name of a band that caught my attention, an author I wanted to check out, or even a code I wanted to remember later are a few examples. I also use the photos program to show off pictures of my little nephew. It comes with a solitaire game that I make constant use of when I'm waiting for a doctor in an appointment and there's no one around to talk to: all of these features for the price of what is now probably $50-$70.