My PDA (Palm Zire 72) died

tk149

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It was a rough day at the warehouse today, and my PDA died.
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Very strangely. I turned it on, it showed my last application on-screen, then I hit the "camera" button, and the screen went funny. I turned it off, and it has refused to turn back on. I tried hard resetting it while it was plugged into the charger, but that didn't work.

Palm (Curse them!) wants $169 just to look at it.

So, what's out there now? I may even be willing to switch to a Windows-based unit.

In addition to standard address/datebook functions (I've always synced with Outlook), I need:

e-book reader
MP3 player
movie player
LONG battery life
Voice recording
Compact - I went with the Zire 72 partially because it's so small. It has to fit in my shirt and/or pants pocket.
games

cheapness - maybe $300 - less is better

Browsing the internet might be nice, but I have no idea how to go about doing that. I might be able to combine a Treo with my company's cellphone package. I'm not sure.

Suggestions?
 

Evadman

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I just picked up a Treo 650. Can't tell you much about it, or how it stacks up really yet, but it totaly kills my cassiopia.
 

brxndxn

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Palm is the absolute worst PDA company in existence.

I've never seen any other brands of PDA fail near as often. If you have a Palm, it WILL eventually fail. Then, their support is horrible.

During the 90-day warranty period, my GF's Zire 31 broke.. So, she sent it back. One entire month later, she got a refurbished one that was all scratched up. That was 9 months ago. It is failing now and it locks up often.

 

jemcam

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I second the Dell Axim. I have an X30 mid and I love it, especially when I got the extended life battery on ebay for about $15.00.

I can't tell you how long the extended life battery lasts because I've never been able to wear it down yet. I expect it is greater than 8-10 hours depending on what you're doing with it. It is also working great as a GPS unit since I bought the bluetooth GPS and TomTom5.
 

tk149

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How are the Axims for playing movies? My Zire tended to drop a lot of frames during action scenes.
 

zephyrprime

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You think the Zire 72 is small? It's one of palm's larger units.

Get a PDA phone. That's the way to go.
 

imported_goku

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Are you sure it's dead? I have a Palm VII that wouldn't turn on no matter what I did, I can't remember what I did but I thought I had fried it in some way. I asked palm and I got the same response you did, so I opened up the PDA (literally), disconnected an internal battery I had found in there, drained the PDA (took out all power and attempted to turn it on), reattached the battery inside and either powered it on after putting in the batteries or I did a hard reset but either way the PDA now works! :) So I'd try that if I were you as it's gone either way and things can pretty much only get better...

 

DaiShan

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Originally posted by: tk149
How are the Axims for playing movies? My Zire tended to drop a lot of frames during action scenes.


I mean it depends on how you encoded them... Don't expect to play a full frame MPEG at NTSC on your PDA. Drop the bitrate and frame rate (although I was able to play movies at 29.97 FPS on my 400mhz xscale at 225kbit)