I’ve been Jonesing for another PDA again. It’s not as if my Treo 90 doesn’t work… I depend on it to keep my calendar, contacts, to-do lists, and the like all in order. The problem is one of layered Jonesing. See, SanDisk is releasing a wireless access card for Palm OS 5.x sometime this fall. My Treo only supports OS 4.x, so I can’t add the card/get the really cool geek toy on my Treo. Combine that with a Jonesing for a new phone integrated with my set of phone numbers stored on my organizer (Jason got me started here), and suddenly I’m out surfing PalmOne and Handspring.

Problem is, there doesn’t yet seem to be a product that meets my needs/wants. I love the keyboard on my Treo – don’t want to give that up. I don’t want to pay for a data access plan, so don’t want to use the wireless capabilities that are built into some of the PDAs. I’d rather use the SanDisk card and just use the network available at home or at work. (I really don’t need instantaneous access to my email or the web while I’m at the mall or the grocery store – at least not at today’s data access plan rates.) And I want a built-in phone. So, I need a PDA that has a built-in keyboard, is a smartphone PDA, and uses Palm OS 5.x. Doesn’t seem to exist yet, unless the Treo 600 ends up fitting the bill (and then I suspect I won’t like its price). Palm’s Tungsten W _almost_ fits the bill, but its OS is listed at 4.x, rather than 5.x, so that card (when it’s available for the Palm OS) won’t work. I have hope, though – the Palm datasheet for the Tungsten W lists it as 4.x, but on their product comparison sheet, they list it as 5.x. Not much hope, though – the product data sheet also lists it as 4.x – and you can’t upgrade from 4.x to 5.x, ’cause they require different processors. Boo hoo. Guess I’ll have to restrain myself for a while…,and just keep drooling for the “perfect” PDA.