Pda?

[jaewing]

I need to get a PDA. Any suggestions for around $300 to $400? I do not have to have wireless email connectivity. I need a calendar, appoitment book, address book, and all the basics just wireless is not an absolute must.

SUGGESTIONS?

[Neko2]

I'm a big fan of my Treo 600.
It has a keyboard, phone and camera.

I've found it handier than carrying both a pda and a phone seperately.

N2

[Roham]

I've had a number of the Palm pilots, and so has my family. For the most part they are awsome machines, no matter what budget you choose to spend.

[CalixEros]

My girlfriend got me an HP Ipaq 1940. I like it but don't use it all that much. ake sure you get one with bluetooth, you won't regret it. Now I cna link wirelessly with my computer, and I recently bought a bluetooth GPS receiver and noe use my Ipaq almost exclusively for navigation. I travel a lot for work so it's worth it's weight in gold. They even make some with a GPS receiver built right in for $4-500, but I can't think of any brands offhand...

[jaewing]

Thanks for the replys. I was leaning toward the HP or the Dell Axim. I can get a great deal on the Dell and it has all the things I want.

Any comments on the Axim?

[8-5-8]

Hey Jason... I have an Axim X30 which I love... My boss has a Palmpilot and I prefer the Windows based OS anyday... much more familiar feel and layout, plus runs word and excel and lots of other apps. Great battery life, wireless rocks... I have nothing bad to say at all... had it almost a year now.

[Crickett]

If you can splurge about $500, the Siemens SX66 from Cingular is a great Pocket PC pda and phone in one. It syncs with outlook perfectly and has bluetooth + 802.11b

[Bkcloud114]

I use a PalmPilot and I have had one for years. I have the Tungsten E, if I need more memory I can always put a flash card in it.

I would stay away from the Windows OS format and go with a Palm OS. I never did like Windows, then again I use an Apple computer.

Here is a web site I use to get after market programs www.palmgear.com

Any questions feel free to PM me

[hex1848]

Like mentioned in the other thread, I got a PPC 6600 from Sprint. Verizon carries it as well (I think I saw a TV ad with a price of $299). I love it.

It does have a few bugs (it runs Pocket PC Windows). I had it crash a couple of times, but as long as you back up every now and then your good to go.

[jaewing]

I just got the Dell Axim X50v. It was a great deal as I got it for 35% off. I paid just under $500.

Next steps:

1. Figure out how to use it
2. Figure our how to tell my wife I spent $500 instead of the $300 - $400 I thought it would cost Oh well we have a comfy couch in the living room.

[Diesel Grinch]

Then tell her you needed it to keep track of your cigars.

[jaewing]

Then tell her you needed it to keep track of your cigars.

Oh yeah that would go over really well Grinch. LMAO

[labmonkey]

I have used a palm pilot for the past 7 years and feel that it is a great OS. I know several people who have Palm PC's and I have had time to spend exploring their capabilities and I find them to be sluggish and memory hogs. Also as far as software availability, Palm is miles ahead with literally thousands of applications available.

I can sync with Outlook. I can view and edit native Word and Excel files, I can view PDF files, as well as Quicken. And the best thing is when I need to do something I have no software for, a quick web search on Palmgear turns up a match 90% of the time because there are so many third party developers. (Bill Gates doesn't allow that sort of thing.)

Also there is a program called PDA Toolbox that lets you quickly and easily create your own programs to do exactly what you need to do in a Drag and Drop interface.

So I guess the true question is how you plan on using your PDA. I really USE it in my work. I collect data, create databases, use it to perform calculations, I have a huge library of ebooks.

If you really are just going to use it as a datebook/address book and sync with Outlook, then a PPC will work fine other than the occasional system crash (remember to back up as often as possible).

[hex1848]

(Bill Gates doesn't allow that sort of thing.)

You can write apps in .NET for Pocket PC. I have Visual Studio .NET 2003, I just havent had time to get my C# skills up to par.

[spncr2006]

The sprint pda's are very nice- they have phones, camera, videocamera, all the accessaries you need, plus more! Not TOO expensive either

[hex1848]

The sprint pda's are very nice- they have phones, camera, videocamera, all the accessaries you need, plus more! Not TOO expensive either

Yep, the data plans are reasonably priced as well. Verizon charges a lot for data (too much IMHO)

[labmonkey]

You can write apps in .NET for Pocket PC. I have Visual Studio .NET 2003, I just havent had time to get my C# skills up to par.

that's the thing....with PDA Toolbox you can whip out a quick program to do exactly what you want in about an hour with absolutely NO programing skills. If you do know C+ you can get fancy, but for just a usable stable program it is all available to the novice.