Advise on a PDA

[shuckthecorn]

Ive never owned a PDA nor have ever worked on one. I have a customer that has lugged a laptop on many trips to Europe just for email. I need to get him a PDA that will allow him to handle a lot of email (100 non-spam messages a day recieving and sending), organize his life and get info from web(directions, etc). Thats all he does. Any ideas on the perfect PDA that'll last him a while.

[Statica]

What's important to me is to have a universal device that does pretty much all my communication needs, so I went with this: http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?...=pp1&pid=10101
Advantages over conventional PDA:
1) built in communications center (cell fone) - so GPRS, Bluetooth, IRDA
2) Full fledged email (POP/IMAP) capable
3) full browser (not just a WAP browser)
4) Expandable memory
5) multimedia capable (so sound recorder, video recorder/player, camera, mp3 player)
6) Tons of useful applications - from PDF viewers to word/excel to games (Symbian UIQ)
7) A much better platform than Windows smartphone or Palm IMO

[shuckthecorn]

Looking at that Sony that is exactly what would do the trick but his budget tops out at $500. Sorry should have added that before.

[Mr N8]

I got my wife a Dell Axim X30, recently, and its great. It has integrated WiFi and Bluetooth, so connecting to check his email is extremely easy. You would still have room in your budget to add a Bluetooth GPS, if he want to use it for driving, too.

I used to hate Windows based handhelds, because they were buggy and crashed a lot. I have yet to have this one crash. My only recommendation is that for web browsing I would get Thunderhawk browser for handhelds, rather than PIE (pocket IE), which comes with and Windows handheld.

[shuckthecorn]

Thaks a ton you guys for the responces. The Dell its gonna be.