I just ran across this discussion. I still am using a Palm Tungsten E2 (TE2). It was bought on Ebay and was described as "new". I have about five others, all bought on Ebay. My original TE2 was bought together as a package with GPS gear and was used for driving directions on trips. Heavy use of that PDA caused its screen to fail, so I ended up replacing the screen. I then thought of buying more TE2s, so I could use their screens as replacement screens, when necessary. To date, I haven't had a failing screen or battery.
The applications that I use a lot are "Handy Shpr" (i.e. Handy Shopper), "SmartList", Tasks, Memos, Calendar, "Big Clock", "Bell Time" and "Tik Tok". For backup I use "RscBackup". There is an Android Emulator for the Palm TE2 called "Styletap". I use Pilot Link to transfer the data files for "Smartlist", Tasks, Memos, Calendar from the Palm to my Mac Book Air (MBA) computer and then I use a program there called "Commander One" to put them in the right place on the Android phone. The alarms on the Styletap emulator weren't useful, so I wrote a Perl program (on the MBA) to modify the data files to disable the use of the alarms.
I have no inhibition against using Google Calendar on my Android phone, so I often duplicate important events there.
Organization of my activities is currently centered on using Emacs and Org Mode on the Mac computer. This competes with the use of Tasks and Memos on the Palm. There is at times some duplication--but I'm a pretty fast typist. I do use a Palm Bluetooth keyboard with the Palm.
The reason that I found this discussion is that I bought a Bauhn $10 Bluetooth keyboard at Aldi's (a German owned supermarket chain) and couldn't get it to work with the Palm, so I did a Google search "use non palm bluetooth keyboard with Palm pda". A previous experience with a Polaroid-branded $10 bluetooth keyboard worked with the Palm (but I gave that one to my grandson).
The applications that I use a lot are "Handy Shpr" (i.e. Handy Shopper), "SmartList", Tasks, Memos, Calendar, "Big Clock", "Bell Time" and "Tik Tok". For backup I use "RscBackup". There is an Android Emulator for the Palm TE2 called "Styletap". I use Pilot Link to transfer the data files for "Smartlist", Tasks, Memos, Calendar from the Palm to my Mac Book Air (MBA) computer and then I use a program there called "Commander One" to put them in the right place on the Android phone. The alarms on the Styletap emulator weren't useful, so I wrote a Perl program (on the MBA) to modify the data files to disable the use of the alarms.
I have no inhibition against using Google Calendar on my Android phone, so I often duplicate important events there.
Organization of my activities is currently centered on using Emacs and Org Mode on the Mac computer. This competes with the use of Tasks and Memos on the Palm. There is at times some duplication--but I'm a pretty fast typist. I do use a Palm Bluetooth keyboard with the Palm.
The reason that I found this discussion is that I bought a Bauhn $10 Bluetooth keyboard at Aldi's (a German owned supermarket chain) and couldn't get it to work with the Palm, so I did a Google search "use non palm bluetooth keyboard with Palm pda". A previous experience with a Polaroid-branded $10 bluetooth keyboard worked with the Palm (but I gave that one to my grandson).
