Using a PDA allowed me to stop using my bulky laptop, except for writing articles. A PDA is instant on, while a laptop makes you wait while it boots up. You can throw away your bulky day runner or that black appointment book covered with yellow sticky notes. The ABA's 1999 Legal Technology survey showed that more than 28 percent of respondents use PDAs. Get one now or be left behind.
People just love it the first time they are beamed.
The PDAs allow you to share information addresses, phone numbers, databases, application files, appointments and memos via an infrared port. Not only can you beam a business card, you can transmit client information or exchange case notes with a colleague. That sync-ing feeling. You can synchronize the data in your handheld with the data in your desktop computer or Hot Sync it, in Palm computing terminology. This means when someone beams a new business card to your handheld, or you add an appointment or to-do item, you can easily update the data on your hard drive when you return to the office.