no problem with questions but if there's a chance to create only one or two topics it would be better
but if your questions really belong to many categories then i don't know of another way
hmm, colour pda's don't necessarily have weak battery life! a good example is a jornada 720/728 with a rebuilt 2400 mAh battery
it can compete with a greyscale hpc running off AA's.. i'm not kidding!
the jornada 7xx are good at mp3/recording too as far as i know.. though i don't think it would accept a microphone. it has its own .. it might not be as good as an external one but should be OK.
(i own jornada 7xx's but i've never tried this function
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