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Originally Posted by morgon View Post
Hi everyone,

last week my Palm T5 died and I need a replacement urgently.

Given that a Palm TX at the moment cost as much as a N800 (at least here in Germany) and with a beta of a Garnet Emulator for the N800 already available evidently the N800 looks interesting...

What I need my PDA for is reading ebooks (txt, html, pdf), an offline wikipedia, playing mp3s and of course some PIM.

Important for me is a good battery life when used offline (without WiFi or BT, lowest brightness - I got about 6hrs of runtime out of my T5 and don't want to go below that).

Also I would need a good pdf-reader (something like RepliGo, i.e. both a full-page view with zoom and a text-only view).

I am quite Linux-savy and don't mind flashing new firmware versions and the like but I mainly want a reliable everyday device rather than a cool hack.

So could you please provide some feedback as to what extend a N800 would be suitable for me as a T5 replacement?

Many thanks!
As far as a media viewer/player, its great and bettter than palm. As far as a PIM, its somewhat lacking. GPE is what I use and has a few bugs but for "some" PIM it works.

I came from a Treo 650 and this is way better. But for Palm apps, becareful, Palm VM Garnet will not run store password keys so the apps you bought typically will not run. Also its not Garnet 5.1 so some apps won't run anyways.