<p>Looking to get our son a graduation present and was considering a palm pilot or something else. Any ideas? I am illiterate when it comes to purchasing the newest technology. What about an IPOD? Is there a combo IPOD/palm pilot out there? Help??</p>
<p>have an extra Palm T3, New in Box. Mpg capable. Ask $250 plus shipping.</p>
<p>I would caution against a palm pilot. while they might seem like great ideas, very few kids will actually use them. Address Book? Thats in your phone. Calender? Most kids don’t use one. Internet? Colleges have 100s of computer labs and your child probably has a laptop. Email? I almost never use email. If I want to contact someone quickly, i either call or text message.</p>
<p>An iPod, on the other hand, it probably a better choice. not only is it a great music player, but it can also be used as a small portable harddrive to bring papers or other work around from dorm to computer lab.</p>
<p>ditto what Ejpejp87 said…</p>
<p>I so relate. Get an iPod or something like that because music takes up alot of space on the PC.</p>
<p>Both of my children (age 16 and 17) have Palm Pilots and use them continuously. My son downloads books to read and also uses it like an Ipod (just make sure it is expandable). My daughter’s Palm Pilot is more advanced - she has word and excel so she can start working on papers at school. She actually does use it for scheduling.</p>
<p>If it has Pocket Word or Pocket Excel, it is not called a Palm Pilot… it would be a Microsoft Pocket PC.</p>
<p>PDAs are pretty useless for a college student–most of the functionality of it is duplicated in a laptop, cellphone, or even iPod (e.g. calendar, file storage, phonebook). Plus, entering text into a PDA is cumbersome, so it wouldn’t be good for taking quick notes.</p>
<p>I bought a PDA phone combo and I use it ALOT but I’m kind of a dork. It charges on the cradle that connects to my computer so it syncs every night. It’s got my work schedule, testing schedule, complete address book(cell phone address books are really useless compared to this), shopping lists, reminders, up to date weather(on my front screen), automatically checks my emails, local movie listings(right on my desktop… don’t have to go through the web), and can’t forget the tons of games, MP3s, movies, etc that keep me entertained. Mine is a Microsoft Pocket PC, ie PPC, and for the most part Palms CAN do everything that PPC can but it is more barebones out of the box. Mine wasn’t cheap(like $650) so I wouldn’t really buy something like that unless he really wanted it. I used to have a Palm but never used it. It was too dull for me. To those that said the functions are duplicated in the cellphone, laptop, and ipod… I tend to think of it as my laptop lite… it has everything I need while I’m on the go. I use it more like a pocket notebook/calendar. I enter everything into my computer(MS Outlook) then just sync, and have my entire life on the screen. Mine does have a built in keyboard so it isn’t too bad for entering info but it would be CRAZY to use it for notes… but for quick jot downs you can either write directly on the screen like a notepad or type on the keyboard. </p>
<p>I like mine, but like I said… not for everyone.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I would get the iPod…</p>
<p>I can’t see trying to read email, much less a book, on such a small screen. And I also can’t see writing a paper on it. Maybe in HS, but in college you can write it on your laptop wherever you go, and the dorm is only a short walk away back if you have a desktop. I can’t see a college student writing anything on a palm.</p>
<p>My roommate actually has a Palm. At the beginning of the year he put his schedule in and stuff and had alarms going off 15 mins before he had to be somewhere… but as the year has gone on he uses it less and less.</p>
<p>They both have Palms. The word/excel is an add-on.</p>