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I'll take a few, too:
1. My d-pad is a little mushy but not that bad. A light touch seems to work fine. Taking the number of complaints about the d-pad in this forum, versus the number of members, it seems to be a small percentage actually experiencing real d-pad problems.
5. Been poking away frantically on mine since mid-December, and no lumpiness noted. The screen is still as flat and smooth as when it arrived.
9. The OS takes up about 26-27MB, leaving about 5MB free on the 300 and 21MB on the 400. The free space can be accessed as a storage card ("Built-in Storage"). This is separate from the 64MB "Main" memory.
14. I bought the Dell folding keyboard. I'm very happy with it, with the one caution that you can't sync while using it. You can plug the charger into it. I can type at about 80WPM on it and will be faster once I've grown more accustomed to the spacebar (a bit short on the right-hand side) and the right-shift key, which is further off to the right than on a standard keyboard. It does have a full row of number keys at the top, unlike some other PDA keyboards.
15. No idea how long before the battery would wear out, but repeated charge/discharge cycles aren't really an issue for lithium-ion batteries.
16. You can put programs and data pretty much wherever you like. Programs may load more slowly from ROM or storage cards but should run at the same speed regardless. Larger A/V files might be a little slower than if stored in Main.
I went with the 400. My reasoning was that if I were shelling out for a PPC2002 device with lots of expansion options, I may as well get something with lots of onboard RAM (bearing in mind that software is getting larger and more complex all the time) and ROM (more likelihood of being able to take advantage of future OS upgrades, etc.). I felt, for my purposes, that buying the 300 would be like buying a Cadillac with a lawnmower engine.
'Hope some of this helps,
-Bill
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