Best PDA

[johnfairfield]

For some time I have been using my Sony Erricson 910i as phone and PDA. It's been OK but now the touch screen has failed and I want to move to separate PDA and phone.
Any recommendations as to which PDA - I have owned Psion and Palm in the past.
The ony requirement is that it synchronises with outlook.

John

[sixpackpert]

Any of the HP iPaq's is my recommendation. Never had any problems with mine.

Cheers

Sixpack

[Stu R]

sixpackpert said:

Any of the HP iPaq's is my recommendation. Never had any problems with mine.

Cheers

Sixpack

Have they stopped them clearing their memory when they run out of battery yet? Love my Ipaq and I'm also in the market for another but the fact you lose most of your settings and stuff and thus have to go through the setup every time you do annoys the hell out of me with mine.

[zumbruk]

sixpackpert said:

Any of the HP iPaq's is my recommendation. Never had any problems with mine.

I have a 5550. It's a festering heap of cack, and the useless piece of junk is presently collecting dust on a shelf. Bloody good job I didn't pay for it. Constant crashes, pitiful battery life, useless software. I remember when HP was a *good* company.

[Stu R]

try updating the firmware Solved all the niggles for my 5550 aside of the clearing it's memory when the battery goes. Never noticed a battery life problem, then again never had another to compare it to

[Zod]

zumbruk said:

sixpackpert said:

Any of the HP iPaq's is my recommendation. Never had any problems with mine.

I have a 5550. It's a festering heap of cack, and the useless piece of junk is presently collecting dust on a shelf. Bloody good job I didn't pay for it. Constant crashes, pitiful battery life, useless software. I remember when HP was a *good* company.

I used a 5450 before I got a blackberry about four years ago. Leave it at home for a couple of weeks while you go on holiday. Come back and both batteries have died resulting in it having lost all data. The WiFi never worked properly. It was really not very good.

[vex]

Well, I'll post a positive iPaq vote.

Mine is getting on for four years now, but it is still usefull.

Collects emails
Runs TomTom satnav
Runs Pocket PDF reader
even use it as a Bible for Church

[size13]

I've had an HP Rx-3715 for about 3 years now and don't have any problems.
If you save your docs to sd card or the IPAQ file store then you don't have any problems with lost power.

I also install all my apps on the sd card too so don't loose them.
I've only lost everything once since I got it, and I use it almost every day with TomTom 5 sat nav

It's not always the machine that has a fault

[lippetm]

Best PDA is a difficult question, as it depends what you use it for. The Windows based machines are good if you like the familiar layout and you can get reasonable games for them. The Palm based PDA's are less resource hungary and therefore don't eat battery life and even if the battery goes dead you wont lose all your data. Both systems handle Word, Excel, Powerpoint documents about the same, and they both can play movies and MP3's from memory cards. You can also do a bit web browsing either by wifi or through bluetooth, although its a bit fiddly.

Personally at the moment I'd purchase a Palm TX, as it has more internal memory than any other available, as well as having wifi, bluetooth etc. it should also be compatible with the new 4gb SD cards that are being released, then when you get it, download the freebie TCMP to play films and MP3's. I beleive the program is also available for the Windows PDA's.

As you can tell, I'm a bit of a Palm fan, even more so now I've experienced a Windows Smartphone, which I'm hoping will find a new home at the bottom of a rubbish tip quite soon...I can't trade it in, as that way it may get sent to Africa, and some poor soul over there may have to put up with it.

[mad mark]

Check out the reviews on www.coolsmartphone.com

[LordLanky]

I've been a Palm advocate for about 10 years.
I recently moved to a Windows Mobile device (with phone included), and whilst looks good it does everything "just" and none of it amazingly well.

I still have my Palm TX which is waiting in the wings for when I have one too many reboots on this flippin' Windows device - you'd think the mobile device with less room to add hardware would need less rebooting than standard Windoze; no such luck....

Palm - simple to use, quick, effective interface, can sync to Outlook at work and Palm Desktop at home, battery life good, more s/w out there than you think. Bit geeky.
WindowsMobile - chews battery, too many reboots, typical Microsoft "let the client test" approach to s/w development! Looks familar, integrates a little bit better with a Windows desktop.