whilst waiting for my wife outside the labor room (it took her almost 15hrs before she was taken to the delivery room)... i was quite surprised that most of the doctors was toting a pda (mostly palm, i only spotted one using a pocket pc). obviously makes a lot of sense since this guys often roam around several clinics and hospitals. i hadn't had the chance to ask what medical apps for the pda do these doctors use... i wonder if that many publishers of medical books make their product available on sites like ereader or in general has a soft copy option available.... that could be an interesting research... on my end i usually use plucker to turn online articles suitable for offline pda viewing, avantgo for news and rss feeds and adobe pdf viewer for most of those downloadable docs, manuals etc...

am interested as well what mobile apps can be made for these doctors considering that java is also available for palm's and pocket pc's... will do a little research on this when i have time and play with the palm jvm i downloaded a few weeks ago...

luckily, i was able to bring the tj37 with me and was able to go halfway thru the "hacker crackdown" courtesy of manybooks.net... learned a lot about the history of US secret service, the legion of doom and operation "sundevil"... it also tells a lot about the history of telcos and a ton of other facts related to cyberspace that i had not known.... next book on the list is "free culture" to spice up those boring mrt commute time...

aside from reading, i was very very happy to use the pda to capture those "kodak moments"... el cheapo 3mp cant take decent pictures with low light conditions and using the flash would take a minute befor one can shoot his next picture... whereas the tj37 decent pictures even with only flourescent as the light source, and is fast enough that you can take several pictures with a whim without any noticeable lags in between...