Does anybody still use a Palm Pilot?

[smoogatz]

I've been fact-checking/proofing my novel, and this question came up. Do people still use them? If not, what do they use instead?

[ohiosmith]

1. Still have my old IIIc

[trof]

2. Is this a wanker thread?

Sorry.
Wanker on the brain tonight.
;-)

[datasuspect]

3. i've always used a PAA

personal analog assistant:

[kwassa]

21. the sad thing is that this is more useful than my Palm

at about 1/200th the price

[azmouse]

4. Never needed one.

Paper and pencil have always worked for me.

[Book Lover]

5. I use my Clie as an ebook, a diversionary game machine,

and I put music on the memory card. However, I am an anomaly - people use smart phones or sidekicks now.

[bbernardini]

6. I still use mine.

Because it was a gift, and I can't afford one of those fancy Palm Pilot/cell phone combos.

[sir_captain]

7. Sure do

though most people nowadays running a PalmOS device are using one of the Treos, which is a hybrid palm/cell phone. The exploding mobile OS is windows mobile, which tons and tons of people use and also symbian, which is the OS in a lot of Nokia devices.

[Deja Q]

8. My Tungsten T3 sits in a box. I use my iPaq 2755 exclusively these days

[ContraBass Black]

28. What condition is your t3 in?

[bigwillq]

9. I never had one.

And I did just fine.

[Mutley]

10. Nope, never did use one.

I like gadgets like that, but I didn't want to spend all that money on something I'd hardly ever use.

[Ignacio Upton]

11. Palm Pilots are SOOOO 2000!

:P

Anyway, it seems that if you work in D.C. you just use a Blackberry. But if you don't, you can always write down info in your cell phone. Or, just use and pad and paper.

[kwassa]

25. Blackberry had taken over the world

[Anarcho-Socialist]

12. I have a Tungsten T5 which I hardly use

I use my Nokia 9500 Communicator more these days.

[ContraBass Black]

29. what condition is your T5 in?

[KatyaR]

13. Me, me, me, me, ME!

I have a Tungsten T|X, it's my fourth Palm. It has my entire life in it, I swear. Books, music, movies, podcasts, and videos, weather updates, and it has wifi so I can surf the internet, listen to streaming internet radio, and send and receive email. I have maps and genealogy, tons of games, gardening stuff, my diaries, my calendar, all kinds of notes, photos, my address books, my corporate address book, lots of databases, recipes, etc. I have five years of Molly Ivins' columns to read whenever I need a pick me up and a couple of clipbooks with all kinds of articles I've collected. I have knitting patterns, quilt blocks, Bloglines feeds, records of my blood pressure readings, a couple of bar recipe books, astronomy programs, a database of my fuel purchases for my car, ham radio information, a remote control program for my TV and home theater system, a current TV schedule I update every morning, my biorhythms, a stock market tracker, my home wine collection list. I can read pdfs, and read and edit MS Office programs, including Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations . . .

and maybe I should stop here. I guess you get the point. It's basically the best part of my life--I couldn't do without it. It's like having the world (or my world) always at my disposal.

[femmocrat]

14. "STILL"? Guess another trend passed me by.....

I never even used one! Now that they are passe, I just can't be bothered. (sigh.....)

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

15. sort of,

I still have a Sony Clie I was given as a parting gift when I left a job a number of years back, I still use it for AvantGo - but I never got the handwriting down good enough to use it for much else.

[Omphaloskepsis]

16. I stoped using mine years ago. Now I use a combination of..

Hipster PDA and Pocketmod

[Heidi]

17. CMW and I both have PDAs, but I've used mine twice at most

since CMW gave it to me. Here's what we use much more often. I think primate1 uses this device, as well. ;)

[Omphaloskepsis]

19. I had all my gadgets stolen a few years ago..

I lost all the phone numbers I had. And I had just moved to a new town. I couldn't get in contact with any one I knew. Lonely, lonely.. Now I use paper and a few web based apps I wrote to keep track of contacts and appointments. I prefer the new method.

[Heidi]

20. I have a business associate who teases me

that I don't carry a cell phone and that my cell phone that I perpetually leave at home isn't linked to Microsoft Outlook email. :eyes: (I'm a proud Eudora user.) Naturally, he also gets a real kick out of the fact that I don't bring my notebook computer to meetings, and that I use a fountain pen (the shame!) to take _real_ notes on _real_ paper. :eyes:

[regnaD kciN]

18. I still use one, and depend on it to keep me (semi-)organized...

...but no one calls them "Palm Pilots" anymore -- it's simply a "Palm (insert model name here)" like a "Palm TX," or simply the model name, like a "Tungsten T5," "Zire 22," or "LifeDrive."

Hope this helps.

[Debbi801]

22. I use my Tungsten T5 regularly...

For appointments, phone book info, memos, etc.

[qnr]

23. I have a Palm, but I mostly run Linux on my iPAQ n/t

[philosophie_en_rose]

24. Blackberries

The gift that keeps on giving ... extra work.

[WannaBeGrumpy]

26. In Grade school..palm pilots were part of the curriculum....

we had to carry one with us for a month and learn all about them. Then we had a test! It was dumb. by the end i wanted to throw it out the window!

[Katina]

27. never used one

in fact, I conciously decided to still use a cell phone that doesn't download tunes, doesn't take pictures, surf the web or get e-mails. I even go out without my cell phone at times. I think we are all too plugged in and need to just turn things off sometimes.

[ContraBass Black]

30. I use a Tungsten E, because it saves me the trouble of carrying

A backpack full of notebooks for appointments and creative writings.

The graffiti pad is broken, though.

[dr.strangelove]

31. I left my Palm III for the sexy Blackberry

I know I am just an old guy who dumps the old model for the new sexy model. I am what I am.