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After initally appearing in the summer of 1996 the (then) Nokia 9000 was priced at around £1,200.00 Thankfully things have moved on and so now it's not such hot news (even though 18 months later there is no competeing product on the market!)...

As I mentioned in my Jornada review, one of the reasons I liked my old Psion was the fact that it had a built-in keyboard. Character recognition is fine for making the odd note, or entering a sentence or two in an e-mail but good as it is, it can get tedious after 20 minutes or so. This is where the Stowaway keyboard comes in...

My experience is that PDA users are as loyal to particular brand of PDA as the Windows vs. Linux people, the PCs vs. Macs people, and the old Atari vs. Amiga wars.

Because of that, I'm going to try to stay clear of singing the praises of Pocket PC over Psions or Palms, or any other type of PDA. All I will say on the matter is that I've been a Psion 5 user for a number of years, and although I still use, and like my Psion, I find that it's inclusion of a keyboard makes it just that bit too big to carry around on a daily basis...