Of all the applications that are available for a PDA, gaming has always been one of the favorites.  Everyone enjoys a good game at least once in a while.  However the available handheld gaming platforms have been limited.  The most successful handheld game platform has been the Nintendo Gameboy.  A great product, but primarily made for the kids or young teens market.  Not the best choice for the adult gamer.  Gaming on mobile phones has been limited to fairly simple games with low resolution and slow processor performance.  The modern PDA has given rise to a new level of handheld games.  Usually equipped with a better processor, more memory, more storage, and 16-bit full color screens, the modern PDA has allowed adults to play games that are more complex and sophisticated.  So is the market ready for a hardware platform that is more advanced than previously available and designed for the adult gamer?  Tapwave believes so. 

Palm devices have held the top position in the PDA market for some time, but with the price of Pocket PCs dropping as their features go up and the increasing availability of PDA-enhanced wireless devices Palm has had to introduce some new blood into their line.  This new blood includes the Tungsten line, which are intended for the power users and the “corridor warriors” who want a wireless device, and the Zire line, which are aimed at the more traditional Palm user.

I’ll freely admit that I’m a gadget hound.  I love high-tech toys and I’m a sucker for anything electronic.  So, I was really excited when I found out that I’d have an opportunity to play with the Fossil Wrist PDA and do a review of it.  Now, after five days of playing with it and wearing it constantly, I have to write a kind of schizophrenic review.