I inserted the card into my Palm i705 (another Amazon.com purchase) and instantly quintupled the amount of storage I had available. I moved some large programs over to the card and used BackupBuddyVFS to do a daily backup to the card - if I ever lose the RAM away from my office, I have EVERYTHING I need to restore it right in the palm of my hand.
It works - what more is there to say?
SanDisk is the cheapest I've found. Viking was more expension and DO NOT BUY FROM THE COMPANY PALM! I paid $40.00 for a 16 MB expansion card when the cards are both made from SanDisk, just with different stickers.
Well, if you fill up the expansion card, expect a 2 second wait to load your files. If you are in a rush, this can be anoying, but considering its size, it's wonderful. I put my ebooks on my expansion card and when my card fills up, sometimes it can take approxiamentally 3-5 seconds to load my list of books. However, considering all the books on this card would exceed my palms memory space, I believe that the time waited to load them is worth it.
Still, the price is twice an compact/smartmedia at the same size.
I wouldn't argue with the speed since I can't calculate fractions of a second. It seems inconstant from card to card. I'm going to check out if I can get something normal...