Technology made easy: If you're into travel writing
Blog bits from Washington Post
Two great devices :The QuickPad Pro Mail (made by Mountain View, Calif.-based QuickPad Technologies) and Texas Instruments' TI-83 Plus Silver Edition (with an optional keyboard) feature full-size computer-style keyboards, weigh in at about two pounds, offer simple connections to a standard PC and operate for many hours on cheap AA batteries. It's not for the tech savvy individuals but for somebody who just needs a cheap way to write might be content. Both of these devices fall well short of Palm and other handhelds in terms of screen quality and software support -- even if no Palm combines a full-size keyboard and modem in one unit as the QuickPad does. There is, however, something to be said for a device built around long battery life, durability and a traditional keyboard. Millions of people once relied on a comparable device: It was called a typewriter.

Amen to that. But this is the era wherein everything can be done with just a click of handheld and a use of stylus and I would want something like that. But I'm also somebody that can go back to the basics. I don't mind having the simple gadgets of life but if I can have the best...life would be easier