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WHAT'S HOT: The HandEra 330 is a handsome black-and silver unit with the most crisp, easy-to-read gray-scale screen in this roundup, both indoors and out. In many ways, it beats Palm's PDAs at their own game, though it costs more than most other gray-scale devices. It features all the usual Palm applications and uses the 33-MHz Motorola Dragonball VZ processor used in many Palm-based PDAs, but the similarities to other units end there: The HandEra comes with both CompactFlash and Secure Digital expansion card slots, features usually found only on Pocket PC-based PDAs. The CompactFlash slot accepts a wide range of add-ins, including an 802.11b (Wi-Fi) wireless card, Enfora's 19.2-kbps Pocket Spider wireless modem, and Xircom's CompactFlash GSM card for connecting a data-enabled phone. However, not all CompactFlash cards will work: Without drivers for the Palm OS, they can't be used in the HandEra. A jog wheel makes scrolling through icons easy.