palm is good, but good enough? (Score 1)

I have been with a palm device for a few years now, at first it was a 1 meg pro. Between its second and third year the digitizer started to drift, but predictably, about once a week it needed recalibration. During it's three years of service to me I NEVER needed to perform a soft or hard reset, though I periodically lost all my data by attempting to squeeze too much out of the batteries. Of course it's full capacity was only one meg so a total sync from my pc did not take too long. Last summer I sold it to a friend of my wife's and last I heard it is still in service no problems. Also last summer I bought an M105, this was for $200, just before the prices plummeted and also the release of the M125( bummer). During my year with the m105, I have had only one complaint; the cheap plastic screen. I, of course, am mostly at fault, after about 1200 games of smallware solfree there is a distinct star-like pattern of scratches emanating from the top right corner of the screen where you drag the cards from, to be placed on the individual stacks. The up-side to this is that as many times as I have dropped it, it never had a fault. I guess the plastic screen is quite durable. And, also with this palm, over a year of use and it has never required a reset, hard or soft, Also I've been more carefull regarding battery life and never let it get so low as to lose data. I feel that it has delivered more than expected for what was very near the bottom of the line products, I was very happy that palm marketed a really cheap PDA that had the same capity and feratures as the "over my budget" V/Vx/M50x series.
This ends my praise section

As I stated above, had it been available I probably would have gotten the expandability of the M125 last summer, so recently as I have been thinking of upgrading of course that is the first model that entered my mind as a possible replacement. Then I started thinking about why I really wanted expandability and realized that I did not want to lock myself into needing overpriced SD/MMC form-factor cards. I looked at visor and realized that while the springboard is well spoken of as far as usability and reliability, it is very proprietary and to be avoided. That leaves me looking at the competition, the PocketPCs. What I now know that I want is a PPC with built in expandability( not a dock like the iPaq) with a CF slot and one other, additional CF or SM or ever SD/MMC. This will allow me to use a CF 802.11 card for networking and also increase storage, simultaneously. I don't believe that any devices have this capability yet, but I am looking, and will turn to the dark side(Microsoft) as soon as something is available.