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Color
All PDA's today are color. Ok, there may be an exception or two, but
for the most part, they are all color. If you are worried about this
adding to the price, don't. This used to be the case, but is no
longer really an issue. Screen prices have decreased as resolution
and color depth (number of colors) has not changed much in recent years.
Color also no longer has any relation to internal components.
Manufactures produce low-end devices that contain slower processors and
less memory, but still have the same color screens as higher-end devices.
Many users that just want a device for organizer uses don't think color is
needed. For that use, it really isn't, but it could cost just as
much to get a grayscale device as a color. In the early days of
color PDA screens, there were
different qualities (number) of color. A 16-bit color device
(65,000+ colors) will have
much better quality then a 4-bit device (or one with 256 colors), though
rarely are there screens that are less than 8-bit or even 12-bit.
Most devices feature 16-bit color screens.
Some devices, like the Sony CLIE, use a higher resolution then
some competitors devices. Most Sony devices run at twice the resolution of
the Palm OS competitors. A higher resolution does not mean the
screen is necessarily physically bigger. It simply means that more
information can fit on the screen and/or the quality of the image on the
screen is better.
 Microsoft, Palm...and more...
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