PDA Madness, revisited!

Thu 07 April 2005 by jillian

So, I finally decided. I evaluated 13 models on their merits and decided on the Zodiac 1. Instead of running down to Fry's right away, as I was tempted to do, I went online and checked my options. I found the Zod1, which lists for $269, online for $199. Since the only difference that I can see between the Zod1 and Zod2 is about 92MB of built-in storage, and I can get a 512MB SD card for around $40, I decided to get the Zod1 (the Zod2 lists for around $349). My weighted scoring results (summary only) are below.

One interesting thing: the iPod Mini I received for my birthday has the ability to hold much of the same information as a PDA, but no way to input. I scored it anyway, just to see if I thought I could get by. The answer was a very loud "no."



Model

Score

List Price

Ipod Mini 4GB

175

N/A (own now)

Zodiac 1

604

269

Zodiac 2

615

349

Archos PMA400

569

699

iPaq rx3115

440

279.99

iPaq rx3715

444

199

Tungsten E

594

199

Tungsten T5

551

399

Tungsten C

594

399

Zire 31

551

149

Zire 72

594

299

Treo 600

579

349

Treo 650

601

449