25 Products We Can't Live Without
Here's the stuff you'd have to pry from the hands of the PC World staff.
PC World Staff
Palm Centro
Yes, the Palm OS is long in the tooth, but if you've been a user for ages, you look past the cobwebs and the 20th-century look-and-feel and know you're home. No one has ever constructed a PDA interface half as user-friendly and as tap-minimizing as the Palm OS calendar/contacts/memos/to-do suite. Mashing that OS up with a phone--the Palm Centro--that has a decent Web browser, an e-mail client, and an open development environment makes for a killer combination. Third-party apps are legion; I use an SSH (Secure Shell) client to connect to my home PC all the time, and a freeware music player for all my Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files. I can even listen to Internet radio. I had a Treo 600 and then a 700p for years, but they were built like tanks. The Centro is lean--happy in my pocket--and makes me hope that Palm is headed for a renaissance when its promised new OS comes out, rather for than the dustbin of tech history.
--Matthew Newton, Free Agent columnist
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