A New PDA

[Ross Werner]

So I'm thinking about getting a new PDA, and I'm wondering what you folks 
would recommend. I've made up a little list of things that are important 
to me, roughly in order of importance (most important things listed 
first):

1) the ability to watch videos (preferably XviD) and listen to mp3s
2) excellent battery life
3) small form factor (current PDA is 2.9" x .6" x 4.4" ... don't want 
anything much bigger than that)
4) plays nicely with Linux (or at least with OS X) ... I don't need 
calendar/pim syncing capabilities--just the ability to transfer files
on and off the thing.
5) wireless internet access would be nice, especially if it could run 
opera mobile.
6) nice library of time-wasty games available
7) stands up to a reasonable amount of abuse (like being in my pocket all 
day)
8) the ability to write my own programs for it would be nice, particularly 
if java was available on it, and especially if there's an emulator or dev 
environment for it that works on Linux/OS X

Anyone want to share their love stories/hate stories about their PDAs?

Thanks in advance,
 	~ Ross