Palm Pilot?!

u2mir

Peoples,

I am going to take my Palm Pilot with me.. and i was wondering if anyone knew of any useful software for traveling in india:

Maps?
Tour guides?
Documents?
Tips?
Travel Agenda Software?
City Guides?

I haven't been able to find much of anything for India. Seems to me that having some palm based maps and tour guides would ROCK! I did see that LP has some sort of setup for Bombay.. but doesn't cover the rest of the country!

Thanks!
-mir

Tagore

I would need Hindi support, no idea where to search for it...

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-m2-

I've had a Handspring PDA with me (Palm OS) the past few winters in India and I've found it mostly useful as a time-wasting, game machine -- I have been based in Goa and haven't been traveling a lot, but I really think there are major advantages to print for guide purposes; though the calculator and memo functions are useful, basically it is a battery-eating, non-essential toy. If you want a guide, buy one -- it will have more useful maps and be easier to access the information you need ....

just my opinion, of course

m2

ruins_explorer

Did you end up taking your Palmpilot with you and how did it go?

I was thinking of taking mine with a foldout keybaord to write travel journals each night. Normally I would write in a notebook, but I find my hand gets tired before I'm done writing and I'm a much faster typist - plus this way I can just upload it when I get home.

sting

I'm a writer, but my handwriting is so unlegible and I hated having to transcribe my notes in Internet cafes, so this trip I was going to by an Alphasmart Neo, but have just found a way to transfer data from a Palm to a computer without installing Hotsync software (using Hyperterminal). So I've now decided to take my Palm III and a foldable keyboard I got for $15 from a pawnshop, and transfer data off it on a regular basis.