Technology What smartphone do you have? Any drug database programs on it?

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I'm a pharmacy student in the market for a smartphone. Debating between an iPhone or a blackberry of some sort. iPhone only has EpocratesRx though and I'm not so familiar with it. I'm a big fan of lexicomp but that's mostly because I use the online database and am familiar with the name.

Epocrates vs lexicomp?

What smartphone do you have? Pros? Cons?

 

[DOctorJay]

anything with a touch screen

 

[deleted87716]

I have a Centro with the Tarascon Pharmacopoeia.

For some reason, ePocrates consistently failed to autoupdate properly on my Mac, and nothing that tech support or I did to fix it ever helped. I finally got tired of having to HotSync twice every time to keep it from crashing my device, and deleted it.

 

[sestamibi]

I'm a pharmacy student in the market for a smartphone. Debating between an iPhone or a blackberry of some sort. iPhone only has EpocratesRx though and I'm not so familiar with it. I'm a big fan of lexicomp but that's mostly because I use the online database and am familiar with the name.

Epocrates vs lexicomp?

What smartphone do you have? Pros? Cons?

iPhone and I went with Epocrates.

The full version should probably be out (at a fee of course) soon now that the AppStore is open for business.

The Blackberry version of Epocrates is so clunky that I couldn't see myself using it. For some reason (it shares many similarities), but I found it even uglier than the Palm version.

 

[deleted109597]

I use an HTC touch. ePocrates now lets you update wirelessly, so you don't have to sync. Because I don't use the other functions of syncing (downloading already read emails, contacts are in the phone already) I don't sync terribly often. Works great so far.

 

[Vitum Medicinus]

I just got a Samsung Blackjack II.

My line of reasoning (after a ton of research), if you are interested, is available here.

 

[DrJosephKim]

The new Palm Treo 800w looks very nice. If I had to go out and buy a phone today, that would be the one.

I currently use the XV6800 and I like it.

I find that you must have a touch screen. The addition of a built-in GPS is also very nice for driving.

If you do a lot of texting/typing, go with a hardware keyboard. Some of these newer touch-screen phones only have a 'virtual' soft keyboard on the screen.

 

[JosephK195]

I got Palm Centro with 4 gig memory card. Its fast, stores all of my progs: skyscape stuff, epocrates, avantgo, as well as family pictures/videos. The only bad thing about is when you're going from an area where cell reception isn't available the "phone" is looking ro reception and freezes the PDA. As a solution you can turn off the phone and just keep on using the pda.

Good Luck