April 10, 2004
Samsung i500
Have this new phone. 
Some cons:
- the browsers crash a fair bit when rendering tough pages
- not always on, you have to let it "dial up" when you look for stuff
- battery life for the "slim" one with heavy use is about 1.5 days
Some pros:
- it's 25% shorter than the Treo 600, same on the other dimensions
- it's sturdy metal and feels solid
- the screen is really sharp and fits a lot of content though it's smaller than my old palm
- form factor overall is kind of like the old Startac, except it's made of metal. That's pretty small
- true Palm OS -- tons of cool apps for it like universal IM, mail clients, web browsers, etc.
- pretty fast internet, feels about like dial-up
- renders real web pages, not some clipping-type junk
- 16MB is plenty of memory for Palm-type uses
- focused, doesn't add in a camera or mp3 player to drain the battery
