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These are the freeware (apart from DateBk5 & CardSync I know!) apps that I consider absolutely essential for your Palm (in my case, the the , and now the ) . All in their own way are magnificent. And if your like me and hate spending money unless its absolutely essential, I think you will like these apps as well. The two best sites (I believe) to find freeware palm apps are:
  1. freeware-palm.com
  2. Handcase Freeware

PalmHeads recommend these free tools!


Being a greedy guts, I currently have THREE (yes thats right...) PalmOS devices. My first PalmOS device is a (now sadly no longer manufactured). Amongst other things it has support of a 240x320 screen with virtual graffiti thats collapsable when minimised (way cool!). Some of the apps listed above have support for these features. Below you will see the essential apps that take advantage of the features of the . This device is currently on permanent own to the son of a good friend of mine, who would have to be the most highly organised 9 year old in the world now! :-)


Seeing Handera rudely decided to stop making the Handera 330, I decided I needed to upgrade! My next device is a . Good for its time, if a little slow due to the Dragonball processor. Its a GSM phone/Palm combo. Colour device with a 320x320 res screen (Dragonball struggles with this in particular).Great for doing web content a la my page. Sending SMS text messages is a breeze on it. Even comes with its own perfectly acceptable web browser! Alot of the software above still works on the , so below I will list out all the freeware apps I use because now I have an internet ready Palm. These apps could also be used on a Palm connected to a cellphone via cable or bluetooth.


I finally got sick of the slow speed of the and decided to "upgrade" to a 2nd hand Palm off Trademe (New Zealand's version of eBay). None of the newer Palm's have really caught my fancy...and being a tightarse I didn't want to spend lots of $$$ upgrading! After some investigation I decided to go for a This device had the faster ARM processor (144Mhz) to go with PalmOS 5.x, the same 320x320 screen, perhaps more importantly bluetooth built-in, and also very appealling was the small form factor. At the same time on Trademe I also brought the cheapest bluetooth capable phone I could find, the excellent as I had become addicted to the GPRS access I had. Linking the 2 devices together was a breeze! Very pleased with the (cheap) purchase! All the software above mostly works on the , apart from obviously the Hacks (with PalmOS 5.x doesn't support). Below is an expandng list of the things I've got working on the T2 that I couldn't get working on the devices above.


The need for speed convinced me to buy a . I absolutely love the thing & is easily the best device I have owned. Got it second-hand again on Trademe (New Zealand's version of eBay). Also managed to get a Palm WiFi card quite cheap from the same place, so my wireless handheld requirements are fully met as my still works great too! woo hoo!.

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