Manufacturer: Palm Model#: P80704 Weight: 5..4lbs Height: 4..8"     Width: 3..1" Length: " Average Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars	Retail Price: $199.99 Online Sale Price:
Features: Bright and easy-to-read color screen with support for 58,621 colors Built-in 8 MB memory stores thousands of contacts, appointments, to-do items, and notes Expandable via Secure Digital and MultiMedia cards--add memory, applications, and content Windows and Macintosh compatible--includes desktop software for both platforms What's in the box: Palm OS 4.1, USB cradle, rechargeable battery, and add-on applications including Documents to Go, powerone Personal Calculator, MultiMail, and Palm Reader

User Submitted PalmOne m130 Handheld Reviews (cont...)

I have never had any trouble, have had it over a year and I really maximize the calendar and contacts features using outlook at work and transferring everything to my palm daily. I used the documents to go feature frequently before I got a laptop, so that was really handy as a storage unit so I could work on documents between home and work. I have for the most part, given up on taking notes most of the time more because of our work culture, then the pda, when it is appropriate I certainly use the note pad feature the most of the "extras". But for everything I hoped it would do... it has been perfect.

I did have to get some help from IT at work to get my outlook to synchronize properly w/the palm software, but once it was all set up it has never crashed or done anything wrong for me. There are a lot of people at my office who use this model and say the same. Slowly the whole organization is switching to outlook calendars and this really makes it easier.

Date: 2004-05-21
Be Sure A Palm is Right For You
A Palm Pilot can either be one's best friend or one's biggest burdon. This review is designed for a first time Palm buyer to give you the strengths and weaknesses of this model(the M130) and Palm Pilots in general, so that YOU can decide whether you need another useless peice of plastic in your life or not.

The Draw and the Drawbacks of Palms in General---
Palm Tops are a very nice way to write notes to yourself (if you like learning to write in grafiti), keep a neat calender and hold on to important names and numbers. It is clean-- self contained and much more proffessional looking that a paper and pen. But is it More efficient? If you are out of room in your day planner and find yourself so busy and overbooked that you are constantly forgetting dates, this is a nice alternative-- if you think it would be fun and useful, try somethiung else. Overall I found that a Palm Pilot takes so much time to set up and operate that it seemed more efficent to go back to pen and paper. I found, for example, that it took me much much longer to write detailed notes, as I was so frustraed that I abbraviated and shortened until my note was useless and illegable jargon. Soon I ran into a guilt complex, "should I just give up? OH NO, but I payed so much money..." So I kept using it. Finally I gave up, and as part of the healing process I wrote this review.

"Special" Features---This Model
-Color Screen: If you want a few extra bucks to look like you payed a few hundred this is for you. Very Mid range color screen, but it gets the job done.

-Internet: There are much better ways to connect to the internet, a computer for example (or even a cell phone). This feature seemed pretty useless to me.

-Picture Viewing: Great, you can upload pictures and look at them... maybe even send them to other people. My only question is- how often wil this be more convienient that a computer?

-Games: Oh Goody!

-Read uploaded Text Documents: If you like reading things on a screen go for it-- I got lots of headaches.

-"Scribble" Pad: This is the best thing ever-- I wrote lots of illegable notes and drew funny pictures, woo hoo!

Last Words--
Palm Pilots are a great way to organize a busy schedule, nothing more, nothing less. If you feel that paper and pen aren't cutting it-- make the switch, but know that it will most likely be a bit of a headache at the start, and the headache may continue until you go back to your day planner. Best of Luck

Date: 2004-04-08
It does its job
I got this from a merchant seller who never sent me the original installation CD, so I had to get everything from the Palm website. It worked great every time no problems at all, until one day randomly when I was playing Chess, the thing suddenly went on the fritz, and I had to reset it, loosing all my information in the process. Thank God for the Palm desktop that restored everything when I sync-ed it. Its not like PocketPC. If your a Mac person, go with the Palm OS, if your a windows person... do PocketPC. I wish i'd known the difference when I bought mine.