Mrs. F. has one of the 650s and likes it pretty well.
We've used Handsprings (Palm OS) since their inception and gradually migrated over to the Treo phones.
But the 650 (unlike my 600, above) does away with at least one standard calendaring feature that's been around in the Palm OS since the beginning -- the "floating appointment" feature.
To get it, you have to buy another application that adds it to the calendar app. Go figure.
There are a couple of other minor quirks with the 650 that I've heard her grouse about. But other than those, that thing'll do everything except whistle Dixie (and it can do that with the right MIDI tone).
For the price of the thing, I could have at least one eyeball get that new short sightness fix done, but why risk messing with my eyesight? I've got great distance vision, 17-20, and I like that.
Just build me a bigger G-Damn screen!
I'm also curious about the "unlocked" Treo thing I've seen on eBay. As I understand it, each wireless provider locks your device into their network, yet eBay vendors claim to sell unlocked versions which will work with any cellular network if you decide to switch wireless vendors.
The history: I migrated to Handspring after I maxed out my early edition Palm and had bought all the extra memory that would fit. That, and after taking it apart countless time to fix it from drops, lint on the undersurface, etc, the screen got a little wobbly.
Just like typing, I got pretty good at PalmScript, or whatever the heck they call it.
I switched to the Handspring next as a replacement. It was too cool, because of that add-on slot they had. All those cool things like cellular, GPS, and memory.
Ya know what?. I never bought a single thing for that add-on slot!
Still, my Handspring was a good investment and served me well. I used it to log onsite client hours for billable hours and Tech notes, as well as countless other things.
It was a my "offsite" memory, reminding me of family birthdays and such, freeing a little brain space from remembering stuff.
I'm not sure if that was a good thing. It's like when calculators came out, I stopped doing numbers in my head.
It got busted up when I got bashed, but I still had my "Palm Desktop" on the PC and Laptop so I didn't lose any data. I still miss the "brain" on my hip however.