I think I'm going to stay with my Palm and find a bare bones phone, because I have very limited requirements from my technology. I am the despair of technology designers everywhere.

Them: "It lets you surf the Net! It communicates with Wherethehellitstan! It launches the space shuttle!"
Me: "I just want to call home once or twice a week."

I'd agree, Connie, based on your phone needs -- go with a prepaid service instead of a contract, and get the cheapest phone they have. These days, the cheapest phone often does have a camera and such, but you won't find the kind of reading quality you want from a Palm upgrade without a much more elaborate/expensive setup. Which sucks.

Prepaid is good, but some plans let you get on a family plan without a contract. (In my view, signing a contract for anything less than the really expensive phones is not worth it.) So if your husband already has a cell phone, for about $10 a month you can share his minutes and probably call him and anyone else on your carrier for free.

You can also find barebone phones for cheap on ebay or craigslist, just make sure they work with your carrier.

Prepaid for me worked out to less than $10 a month. I went with T Mobile prepaid, and bought the phone (a workhorse) with the pre-pay set up package (about $50 or so at the time).

Served me for years. Only upgraded because the iPhone was a gift.

Which I rarely use as a phone, but use ALL THE TIME as a browser.

Do you still get WiFi on the bus to work?

There's new iPhone firmware out. It appears to fix the randomly crashing Safari issue finally! Huzzah!

Other than that, it doesn't appear to do anything. And it's, like, a 200mb download. Don't get an iPhone if you don't have broadband.

I'm going to finally start using the digital camera I got last month. First, however, I'm going to replace the 16mb memory card that came with the thing, so I can store up lots of photos on my trip to Florida in April.

Any suggestions for which card I should get that'll give me the best bang for the buck?

(FYI, my camera is a Canon PowerShow A720 IS, if that makes any difference to which card I should buy.)

Kathy, you have a metric buttload of choices. I've used SanDisk, Kingston, and PNY brands with no problems to date.

Yeah, you can get a pretty big one for not too much money, these days--my sister and I bought a digital camera for our brother for Christmas, and I was surprised to see how cheap all the memory cards were! Though I suppose as all the cameras get bigger you need a bigger card, but...

I know some people prefer to have just one big card, on the "I'm never going to bother switching it in or out or losing anything" theory, and others prefer to have a few (possibly smaller) cards, on the "what if something happened to one of them/the camera got stolen and all my good pictures from this trip were on it" theory.

A card bigger than 2GB might not work in your camera, though.