Palm Zire

Palm's latest handheld is a budget device targeted at newcomers. Other manufacturers may be adding more memory, larger screens and faster processors, but the Zire has just 2MB of RAM, a small monochrome screen with no backlight and a relatively low-power 16MHz processor. So the attractively designed Zire is about as basic as a Palm gets, but if you're looking for a no-frills personal organiser, it will certainly do the job -- as long as you're not trying to read the screen in a dimly lit location.