One of the best things about it is the way it can perform more than one task at a time. Do you want to listen to Internet radio as you read through your e-mail? No problem. And the iPhone isn’t the only one with that special toy called a multi-touch screen, you know.

It is what they call a fully loaded product too. Different workplace tasks require completely different Task Chair, accessories and layouts. You get WiFi, Bluetooth, a simple switch to turn the ringer off – just everything you want. And of course, Palm’s Web OS does multitasking with e-mail accounts and address books like no one else. You can look up your records with Google, Yahoo and Outlook all on the same screen. Of course there is a catch (isn’t there always). The battery life isn’t all that great on any Palm PPC. There aren’t that many apps available for it at this time – barely a thousand, but Palm is trying to quickly catch up here. Of course 1000 doesn’t look very good next to the iPhone’s 120,000. But ar least, Palm’s thousand are all really great ones, and they expect the number of high-quality apps they have available to double every year.

There is one way in which these two Palm PPC products will outdo the iPhone any day: it can turn into a WiFi hotspot with one touch. If you need to work on your laptop, you don’t need to carry around a pen drive-sized device or a data card or anything. Your phone is your hot spot. And your phone is in your pocket. Some less expensive Task Chairs might only be capable of modify up or down with a purpose to accommodate customers of assorted heights. That saves you $50 right away, and you and your friends can connect to the hotspot in your pocket any time. The iPhone can do that too, if you wish to illegally hack into it; but the Palm PPC does this right out of the box, without any fussing about. There is just no other phone that does this fuss free. So what if it costs an extra $40?