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"I have a Palm Centro from AT&T and it doesn't have Google Maps like the Sprint version. Is there any way I can get Google Maps on my Centro?"

AT&T is hopeful that you'll pay the monthly fee for TeleNav instead of using the Google Maps app. Fortunately, Google is happy to let you download the Palm version of Google Maps for free. Just go to mobile.google.com from your phone's browser and locate the link for the Google Maps Download. It installs either on your phone's memory on on a card and then you get Google Map functionality that's indistinguishable from what your friend's with Sprint service have. That's one fewer feature separating your Centro from an iPhone.

On the technology front, one of the coolest things I learned about in China is a Windows Mobile and Palm OS app called PlecoDict. The app is designed to make looking up Chinese characters faster than you could ever do with traditional paper or type in dictionaries by using the handwriting recognition built into portable devices. As I've already learned, one of the biggest frustrations in learning Chinese is remembering the meaning of the thousands of characters. Looking up characters manually takes minutes per character with traditional characters. Looking them up using a stylus takes mere seconds. Anyone who travels to Asia with a Treo should definitely own this app. If Microsoft were smart, they'd enlist the company to make a Tablet PC version of this dictionary too because it would extend the usefulness of tablets tremendously.