Pda

[Jeratain]

My family came over to visit for the past week while my cousin from Stanford was graduating and they just so happened to purchase me a nice little gift for being such a good cousin.

They got me a nifty little PDA, the Toshiba e335 Pocket PC.

The specs are:
300 Mhz Intel PXA250 processor
32 mb ROM
64 mb RAM
Pocket PC 2002 OS (I know it's not 2003, but pretty much exactly the same)
3.5" Reflective Color Display (16 bit 240 x 320 portrait)
16 bit stereo sound, with full duplex recording and playback.
Built in mic.

I bought a 128 mb SD card for 29 bucks (it was on sale) and put a few MP3s and lots of software onto it. The whole MyAvantGo.com site lets me download news, weather, movie times, comics, and lots of material to read. Microsoft's site lets me download a few free games and you can purchase lots of other little programs. You can get Microsoft Money for the handheld for free, and I've also installed Streets and Trips for the PC and put a few maps on there for common places I go in case I ever need directions. I also have about 15 books that I can read with it, including Dracula, the Time Machine, Around the World in 80 Days, etc. I'm surprised at the capabilities of these little things and have fallen in love with it.

Anyone else got a PDA? What am I missing that I can do without spending too much?

 

[Turner]

Is it Palm OS compatible? If it is, you need to d/l Space Trader. . .very addictive game. Solar Wars is pretty cool too. I have a Palm IIIxe, (well, my work does) and it's a nifty little device. not as nice as yours tho,

Nice! I like the avantgo stuff. Useful for d/ling maps and what not. Although I don't use it for anything other than maps, so I'm not sure just how useful it is.

 

[Jeratain]

Well the cool thing about Avantgo ( http://www.avantgo.com ) is that you can subscribe to your choice of hundreds of online newspapers and magazines, weather forecasts, entertainment locations, etc - and it's free (up to 2 mb worth of webpages are free, if you want more you pay for the extra space.)

I'm not entirely sure on the compatibility of Pocket PC to Palm OS unfortunately. I'll have to read up on it. Although I'm happy enough that it's comaptible with Windows (considering the OS is made my Microsoft :crazyeyes: ) and that's the most important thing to me. Honestly, I would have been happy with just one of the cheap black and white kinds that you can now get for around 80 bucks - this one is a lot more than I expected and I can't believe my aunt would spend that kind of money on me. Makes me feel guilty, heh.

 

[Turner]

I had a subscription to some of there stuff a while back, and deleted it because I wasn't reading it. But it was useful.

If it's not Palm compatible, at least there's still solitare, right?

 

[Padma]

Well, I use a Palm m505, and I love it! Of course for the standard functions, like Address Book, Appointment Calandar, etc. But I also have many games downloaded (or on ROM cards), and I purchase quite a few books, which I D/L to a SD Memory card.

Turner, Palm was (and still is, IIRC) the #1 OS for PDAs. But MS is pushing its Pocket PC hard, just like it does every other market.

 

[Turner]

Well of course they are! Wouldn't be MS if they didn't, right?

I don't tell this to many people, but I have inside information on MS. You know that old program, Star Trek: The Next Generation? Turns out a race introduced there ended up being based on MS. What where they called again? Oh yeah, the Borg. I'm kidding, of course, I don't have insider info on them. But ya gotta admit, the simularities are scary!

 

[GenghisK]

Argh pocketpc...
[/color=purple]*looks for his shotgun*[/color]
I prefer Palm and my Vx.

PS: Padma, seems that they are not civilized enough, yet We are the l33t