Posted: 7/26/2004 7:24:03 AM EDT
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I am finally realizing that I need help organizing my life, job, and schedule and a little black daily minder book ain't making it. So I am going to splurg and purchase a PDA I know little to nothing about this except I want one that will last, has good storage for pics, maybe plays music (if that is possible), color screen and be user friendly. I will spend up around $250 but am open to advice. Help me out guys, you have never let me down on stuff like this My mom loaned me her old Sony Cliq PEG-SL10 but it is only black and white and I think it doesn't have all the bells and whistles I want. Patsue |
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I have owned several, and it is hard to recommend them as they all have different capabilities. The best advice I can give you is to choose the functions you will use all the time, such as address book or calender and then go look at several PDAs and find the one that is the easiest to use with those functions. For example, many windows PDAs will integrate with outlook, but Palm based ones use a standalone app to sync the data. |
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there was some discussion on this a little while ago - it might not be too useful, but there may be some info in there too www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=255235 |
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Best deals: Dell Axim x3 = $237 (shipped) Wi-fi, bluetooth, 64mb program 64mb storage, pocketpc windows 2003 se (allows landscape view), 300mhz Xscale. More memory that most pda's but still not enuf for pics and music, a media card is always neccessary. but a killer price for wi-fi pda. If you like Palm OS better, i dont reccomend it because most palm friends are getting out of the game I'd reccomend the sony clie peg -tj37. Saw that for 245. |
| Palm OS is great but it is increasingly limited as Microsoft does its usual hostile takeover. Sony is getting out of the PDA market and Palm itself is losing serious market share. I would stick to Windows Mobile 2003 special edition. The PDA's that use this are for the most part more powerful and have a better array of software. |
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Well, I ordered a Dell Axim X30, Intel® 312MHz, 32MB Intel® Flash, 32MB SDRAM Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition software for Pocket PC X30 USB Travel Sync Cable ordered it with 128 extra memory card, leather case, extra battery Hope the thing works for me. patsue |