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I like gadgets and go through them like shoes. However, I have used the same pda, the Palm LifeDrive, for just over 3 years. Every single day for just over 3 years. It's my calendar, address book, notebook, drawing book, mp3 player, voice recorder, wifi browser, and ebook reader. I've read 1000 page books on it. I can also create and edit Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents with it. I also have a few games on it. If it had a phone, I would throw away my phone, but instead I can go through phones like shoes.

Risa has even become quite adept at the drawing program and quite happily occupies herself with it when we're at restaurants. I have a growing file of her artwork in my LifeDrive.

I used a Blackberry last year and it was disappointing. It didn't handle documents well (read only) and webpages didn't display half as well in the browser. Not enough to make me give up my LifeDrive.

Unfortunately, the LifeDrive is dying. The product is long discontinued and it's losing some functionality (wifi) because there are no longer updates for it. It can be updated, Palm just doesn't want to. After 3 years, it's still a trusted work horse for me and I haven't seen anything else I would consider an adequate replacement, a rare thing in consumer technology these days. From some of the forums I've read, it seems there are a few others who feel the same.