What PDA to get?

[JN]

Hey Guys,

I'm looking for a PDA and wondered if any of you had experience in this area

It needs to be based on MS Windows/CE and have Wi-Fi/GPRS as i'm going to be using it to browse the web/connect to oc3d servers remotely.

I don't want the latest and greatest, just something affordable.

 

[limqareb]

i - mate k jam or something in that is great they all have wifi

 

[NickS]

My old Dell Axim, which PV has (and afaik it's still running strong) was a champ. I reccomend them. Plus Dell's support pwnz.

 

[FarFarAway]

Dell Axims are pretty good. We use them @work a lot to web into the servers

 

[JN]

Dell Axims are pretty good. We use them @work a lot to web into the servers

Yeah I've been looking at the Axims on ebay. Look nice.

How about this:

http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=120559

 

[FarFarAway]

We have a few of these:

http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=138444

They're ok, but not up to an Axim imo

some of the iPaqs are sposed to be good I think

Dell's looks much better specced too:

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/p...s.aspx/axim_x51_520?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs

 

[nathan]

i'd recommend the ipaq's. I'm not going to recommend anything dell, just because i errrrrm hate them.

 

[PV5150]

Dell's Axim PDA's rock...period

 

[FarFarAway]

Dell's Axim PDA's rock...period

nathan it pains me to say it but Axim's really are very very good

 

[NickS]

Dell's Axim PDA's rock...period

Hehe, agreed! I never had an ounce of trouble with mine when I had it. The Dell 802.11b card I had bought for it worked great too. [ot] Howssit holding up for you, PV? [/ot]

 

[nathan]

they probs are, i'm just still arsy with them as you have to spend £116 to replace the "waste toner cart" yet on every other laser printer i've installed you can empty them yourself. This is at a school where they have hardly any money.

 

[FarFarAway]

Ye but then a fuser goes on a Lexmark printer and it costs £300! fuser's are also replaceable parts

 

[nathan]

but a waste toner is just something that catchs the waste toner. nothing complex. they should of brought a tally. Meh.

Not sure what the world is coming to, you can buy a printer including toners for the price of replacment toners.

 

[NickS]

Easy. Printer is made in a foreign country for next to nothing.

 

[PV5150]

Hehe, agreed! I never had an ounce of trouble with mine when I had it. The Dell 802.11b card I had bought for it worked great too. [ot] Howssit holding up for you, PV? [/ot]

Yeah still going well thanks mate, although I have upgraded from the X5. Dell is the pwnage as far as PDA's are concerned (never thought I'd hear myself saying that rofl).

 

[NickS]

Woot really? Man I loved that thing. I remember the time I tried to use Skype on it and talk to u, lmao.

 

[PV5150]

hehe yeah the missus has it now, although I did upgrade to the Dell Axim X51v. She uses it regularly for driving (GPS), I bought Miomap 3.2 for her and put it on the pda. It runs as quick as

 

[JN]

I got me a Dell Axim X50 Cheers for the advice lads

 

[equk]

I got me a Dell Axim X50 Cheers for the advice lads

n1 I have an axim x50v

 

[FragTek]

I got me a Dell Axim X50 Cheers for the advice lads

Good choice, how much did it set you back?

And iPhone FTW!