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...also found Pocket PC's handwriting-recognition skills to be woefully inadequate. It kept reading my a's as g's or u's, my b's as d's and sprinkling periods liberally throughout my text. A few hours of this, and my head was throbbing; I reverted to tapping in my letters one at a time on the onscreen keyboard. For the time being, I'll stick with Palm's tried-and-tested Graffiti alphabet...
...device based on the Windows CE operating system has yet managed to be this simple, and unfortunately the Pocket PC turns out to be no exception. Microsoft's idea of making the system more intuitive seems to be limited to moving the "Start" menu from the lower-left corner of the screen to the upper left and adding an almost invisible button marked OK in the top right, which you need to tap all the time but invariably forget. Too often I was more conscious of operating the system than concentrating on the task at hand...
...should you buy a Pocket PC? Sure--but only if you plan on doing most of your data entry on a PC, then transferring the files to the handheld device. And only if you think the bells and whistles, fabulous as they are, are worth about $170 more than what you'll pay for the Palm V (street price: $329). Of course, if you're like me, you may be saving the difference in tailor bills...
...like burning. Yet deep inside I long to sleep around, to kick some ass, to release my first rap album. As I saw it, I had little choice but to score some of that testosterone gel when it comes out this summer. I could keep it in my jacket pocket for emergency situations, next to my lip balm and antibacterial hand gel. I'm thinking about marketing this as a first-aid kit for wusses...
PALM WARS Microsoft's new Pocket PCs (described at left) will soon have more than Palm to compete with. Next month Research in Motion, whose two-way pager won accolades last year for its compact size and wireless stock-trading capability, plans to release its own $500 handheld. The Blackberry 957 will feature an organizer, address book and note-taking features. Wireless e-mail service will cost $40 a month. While the RIM will link to corporate e-mail, a monochrome screen and paucity of extras could make it a tough sell...