PDA recommendations

Sone · 11 Feb 2008 at 11:42

Have had to give back my xda and go back to a normal phone so i need a pda. Budget is flexiable but as little possible, must have wireless and bluetooth and windows prefered but not essentail.

Anybody got any reccomendations?

caff · 11 Feb 2008 at 15:19

The HP 214 looks very nice.

thepominlaw · 12 Feb 2008 at 19:33

went from a selection of windows based models to a palm TX

never looked back

Sone · 13 Feb 2008 at 10:44

if i go windows need to decide if wireless is really needed as a non wireless pda can be had damn cheap.

Whats so good about the TX? I take it even with the meagre specs it flies on palmOS.

Edit after further investigation the TX looks pretty good for the money

pumaz · 13 Feb 2008 at 13:55

I Just bought a Ipaq 4150, It as bluetooth and WiFi came boxed as new with a spare battery and proporta metal case for £62 delivered from the bay.

My advice is to check out the bay

C4EVA · 14 Feb 2008 at 23:43

HP IPAQ HX4700
Had mine for a good couple of years now and still going strong even though it gets used nearly every day.
Actually its going even stronger now I hacked it and put Windows mobile 5 on it

Got a 16Gb CF card for it a few weeks back for £35 and loving all the extra storage space

Energize · 16 Feb 2008 at 20:50

thepominlaw said:
went from a selection of windows based models to a palm TX

never looked back

How does the palm os compare? Windows mobile is so tiresome now, it's feels as if they just ported xp onto a pda and put no thought into it's design at all. Awful explorer navigation, crap user input, bad browser, slowdowns, horrendous media support, loads of messing about to do one thing. I can actually appreciate why some people use macs with how bad windows mobile is.

Sone · 17 Feb 2008 at 14:42

might make do with old phone, just got MFE working on my old N80 and it covers 90% of the reasons why i used the xda.

Used to do the occaisonal report or expenses sheet on there but i might have to give up on that

C4EVA · 17 Feb 2008 at 14:48

Energize said:
How does the palm os compare? Windows mobile is so tiresome now, it's feels as if they just ported xp onto a pda and put no thought into it's design at all. Awful explorer navigation, crap user input, bad browser, slowdowns, horrendous media support, loads of messing about to do one thing. I can actually appreciate why some people use macs with how bad windows mobile is.

My Windows mobile 5 flys on my hx4700 once tweaked with sdk tools. (Even @ default it was pretty snappy)
Personally I love windows mobile and haven't experienced any of the problems you described.

brendy · 17 Feb 2008 at 15:29

We bought in a load of HTC Tytns last year and barring one iffy touch screen, they are all running modified wm6 roms and are going great, Id love to get my hands on a newer model though.