Things that I would consider when purchasing a PDA are the size, amount of available memory, ease of usability, design, and photo and web ability. A PDA could be used in practice to pull up drug info or disease info at the bedside, to take notes, to take pictures of a wound for charting and tracking, emailing and text paging MD’s, etc. The PDA that I would recommend would be a Palm One PDA. Specifically I would recommend the Tungsten T5 because it is compact, fast (416MHz), has a good amount of memory (160Mb), is user friendly with a keypad, stylus, and touch screen, and it includes email, spreadsheets, expense tracker, photo and video playback, a web browser, etc. It is around 300$ which may or may not limit people from getting it, but depending on how much you use it, it may well be worth that.
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