A new price tag
If Color Game Boys sell for under $100, why can't a Palm device? How much can it cost to make this thing? Fifty bucks? Twenty-five? Less? There's a huge market of soccer moms that would suck these things up in response to a real price drop. I know -- I'm a soccer dad. Remind Palm Computing that McDonald's makes more money by serving billions of burgers to us regular folks than a fancy Wall Street restaurant makes by serving a few patties of "steak tartare" to rich stockbrokers.

A new ad campaign
Palm has to can the ads with the naked woman. It's not just that they're sexist. If sexist advertising were really out of bounds, Santa, you'd have to stop making those beer commercials with the bikini-clad elves. (Does Mrs. Claus know about those?) The real problem with the naked woman ad -- and let's not forget the one with the Harley -- is that it's embarrassingly cheesy and amateurish. These ads say that Palm organizers are just expensive toys for male executives going through mid-life crises. I really don't want my friends to think of me when they see these.

Real handwriting recognition
Why do we use the QWERTY typewriter keyboard even though everyone agrees that other key layouts would allow us to type much faster? We do it because it's a standard, because that's how our parents learned, and how we learned, and how our children are learning. Our Palm-device-using children, and there are more of them every day, are also now learning to write in Palm's Graffiti alphabet. Santa, I don't want my kids to grow up in a world where everything from postcards to newspapers is written in Graffiti. I like our alphabet as it is, and I can write in it a lot faster than Graffiti. Please save us. Bring Palm organizers a program that allows us to write in the alphabet that even non-geeks know.

A sketch pad
If I have an appointment at an office I've never visited, I'll often sketch a map to help me get there. Do I do this on my PalmPilot? No, I have to slap a little sticky note onto my organizer's screen. Could we please move into the digital age now?

A better screen
Sure, the screens on the new Palm devices are much improved over the ones on the old PalmPilots, but they're still sad little black-on-gray things. As you know, Santa, I'll be turning forty next year, and nothing will lead more quickly to a mid-life crisis than needing reading glasses. Please bring Palm a more readable screen before I reach that point.

Does that mean color? I like the idea, Santa, but every time I mention it, some of your elves (you know, the ones with the propellers on their pointy little hats) shriek "battery drain!" so loud it almost makes me stop believing in Christmas. But who says they know what's under the tree this year?

Those elves are a lot smarter than regular folks like me, but I know one thing for sure: paper planners are an easy-to-read black-on-white, not a murky black-on-gray.

Also, maybe a new screen could be larger, using the Graffiti area as screen real estate and having the Graffiti block pop up only when a user is ready to enter text. But I know that folks who use Graffiti a lot might find that part of the screen getting abraded over time. I'll leave it up to you, Santa. You know what's best.