Palm pilot

[6naline01]

I am currently considering purchasing one of latest hand-held computers ie palm-pilot or one of the others currently available but not quite certain what their capabilities are? I am currently still in the note and scrap pieces of paper era, if any members have any experience with these please advise.



thanks Doc Nielsen

 

[drawson]

I have the Palm 111e and it is wonderful. i don't know waht I would do with out it. The neatest part for me is the beaming function to other Palms.

 

[6naline01]

drawson, describe some things that it does



thanks Doc

 

[Oasis-3]

Doc I have a Palm VIIx and Quick Check II and it is a lot of fun when you read trucks for other people and they see how many hours they have on there trucks. And when I am out on the road I can E-Mail home and save money on the cell phone bill

I have a lot more info stored in my Palm then I would have thought. If it ever goes bad I will buy a new one.

Cliff

 

[Steve G]

I have the Handspring Visor Prisim. It's a color display and I like it a lot.



Steve

 

[Oliver88]

I've used a Franklin planner up till now, but have been considering the Palm Pilot. What is the price of some of these things? Can you store phone numbers? Email addresses? What are the capabilities?

 

[CMacKenzie]

I currently am using an HP Jornada 548. It uses Windows CE 3. 0 as its OS. The reason I like it is that using it is just like using your Windows 98 or XP desktop. It comes with Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, Scientific Calc. , etc... . . The one draw back is that there is more software available for the Palm OS at retail. Most of the Windows CE software is on the internet, but in the following months more should be available retail.



I use my PDA as a Medical Resource and for carrying my Safety Audit spreadsheets. It also has a program (AvantGo) where I transfer any TDR threads I find interesting to my PDA in the morning before I leave and read during the day when I get a chance.



Really its just a choice of an OS that you are comfortable with. Make sure that you get a 64 meg Compact Flash Card with your PDA so you have enough storage for all those threads.

 

[LarryB]

Doc and Oliver

For more information than you need go here; http://www.pilotgear.com/

 

[Oliver88]

Prices

Thanks guys. Some of these things are rather pricey. I'll have to shop around.

Greg

 

[socal_rattler]

My wife just got an HP Jornada 525 which run Windows CE 3. 0. After we got it, I saw a newer HP unit that runs Pocket OS 2002 and I like that OS a lot better than CE. It is a lot closer to Windows NT or 98 than CE is.

 

[Jumbo Jet]

Compaq iPAQ 3650 Handheld. Color. Expandable.



I have wireless network, wired network, and pocket modem.



128 MB Flash Card to store pictures, maps, etc.



PocketPC OS. Synchs with desktop, etc. etc. Plays games with sound. Records sound.



I have a Cummins starting up . wav file that I play and tell people I am starting up my truck remotely.

 

[LarryB]

I have a PalmIII that has so much stuff in it I have a hard time lifting it! Seriously folks, I have conversion software of all sorts, all my vehicle info like maint records, part#s for filters, belts, and other. I gave up trying to remember so much stuff and just put it in my PP. I would cease to exist if anything ever happened to my data. I backup weekley to the PC and tape backup that weekly also. I am holding off upgrading for as long as possible waiting for a combination phone/palm/internet device. I see they are becoming available now so I may have to accidentaly drop the thing and back over it with the Dodge. (after backing up data of course. ) Once you get used to having one you wonder how you got along without it.



Larry

 

[Oliver88]

Does anybody know if a palm IIIc is compatible to beam and receive info from a palm 515?

 

[JConley]

I have both a Palm III and a Pocket PC. The reason the Pocket PC costs more is because it DOES more. Do yourself a favor and dont even look at the Palm. On the Pocket PC (either Jornada or IPAQ), Word and Excel are native to the OS, so attachments in e-mail are readable withoug any additional software. I download my e-mail and get all the attachments including voice mail. The Palm is nothing more than a calander, and a weak e-mail client compared to what is available with a Pocket PC.



I was part of the test and evaluation team for the place I work for and we will not be buying any more Palm Pilots since they are so limited. I am getting a new Pocket PC next week. It is a Siemens model that has built in AT&T Wireless cell phone service. My PDA will be my Cell phone, pager, text messenger, Wireless Internet browser, and it will connect to our network and download mail just like a laptop PC.



I also have a Jornada that I use with a wireless network card to connect to the phone system at work and make phone calls just like I am in the office.



A Palm Pilot is good if all you need is a place to keep your contacts. A Pocket PC device is a mini laptop. I only use my Palm Pilot for the ballistic calculator program I need when shooting.

 

[ladyjaine]

iPaq by Compaq

I was an early adopter for the Palm. I have a Palm Pilot (no model number, think of it as 1) and a Palm V. I don't use either of them any more.



I moved up to a Pocket PC by Compaq. I got a model 3955 and I'm Never Going Back! This thing is a PC in my hand. The processor in my iPaq is just as powerful as my last home PC- it's a 400. With a build in SD RAM slot, storage capacity is functionally limitless. I've got expansion packs for it, so I can put in Compact Flash cards or PCMCIA cards. My boss uses GPS on his. I'll be loading wireless network analysis software on mine, to assess traffic on our wireless network. Log file size isn't an issue.



The iPaq is pretty popular, so there are heaps of attachments for it. I could get keyboards, chargers, stands, dash mounts and so on. It's possible to use it as a phone, a camera or a sound system and still manage spreadsheets, e-mail and text files. It plays games, too. My iPaq will beam to just about any hand held that has an IR port. Palm, Journada, Clie, Visor it doesn't care.



BTW, there is Pocket PC hardware that will run Linux. Same functionality, only limited by what's been ported over.



Jean

 

[Eric Kahn]

I have a PalmIIIc and my friends have the newest version of the color palm, they can beam stuff back and forth, we do it with games, but not all the newer app's work on my older IIIc

 

[NETim]

Sharp Zaurus

Been runnin' a Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 about a month now and love it. Great display and it has a built-in keyboard. Built-in complact flash and SD card slots and IR port.



It will sync with MS Outlook via Intellisync s/w. If you don't run MS crap, then you can install Qtopia desktop and sync with that s/w on either MS OS or Linux platforms.



Many, many apps are available for the Zaurus and most are free for the d/l. More apps available every day of the week. Check out Zauruszone



I have no experience with the Palms. Visors, IPAQ's etc. Just the Zaurus. I bought it because it runs Linux as its' OS. The Palm's in particular as I understand it, have a little slicker user interfaces. However, the built-in apps like Calendar, To Do list etc work OK for me. There are after market commercial replacement apps available which are supposed to be better. I am happy with mine as is.



Already there are alternative Linux OS's coded and available if the user wishes to "BOMB" their Zaurus so to speak. Better use of the built-in memory etc. I haven't tried 'em though. Again, I am happy with the Zaurus as issued. I have added several s/w apps though that make the Zaurus even more useful to me.



The CF card slot allows the user to plug in an ethernet card (wired or wireless), a serial card, a modem, a digital camera, etc.



Mine gets used on the job to telnet into UNIX/LINUX machines and to ftp files on and off of those machines. The user can also telnet/ftp into the Zaurus as well.



It's more than a palm device. It's truly a hand held computer with the tremendous power of Linux.



Tim

 

[Oliver88]

Thanks for the info guys. This is a big help.

Greg

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

I also was an early Palm adopter. I had an original Palm too. It was a fine machine for what it did. I bought an iPAQ about 3 months ago and wouldn't want to go back to the Palm either. The iPAQ's are great machines IMO.

 

[Oliver88]

Steve,

Where is a good place to get an Ipaq? Best Buy, Office Max or other places like that?

Greg