Who here has a PDA and what do you use it for?

[Eug]

"I bought mine from a British dude out in California for $200 brand new. He already had a Palm V and someone gave him the Compaq (16bit color screen). It retails for $400+"

Says something about Palm vs. WinCE/Pocket PC???

Just kidding. Both are good machines, but I prefer my Palm OS machine (specifically the Visor Deluxe) because I think it's the better bang for the buck, and it has better 3rd party support. In the medical and business world, having a Palm OS PDA is a must, for compatibility reasons.

"you guys w/ palm pilots.. it seems inconvienent(sp?) to take notes because there is no keyboard. Are you really good at just punching in letters one by one, or do you mainly use em for holding relevant info for yourself?"

I have a full-sized keyboard for my Visor. No it's not laptop-sized spacing, but full desktop keyboard-sized spacing. Folds up into just a bit bigger than the Visor itself. Coolest thing ever! http://www.thinkoutside.com

Anyways, I use mine for contact info, my schedule, memos, email, AvantGo, games, calculator, and databases. I have a bunch of other software installed, but I don't use those. A side benefit is that since I sync it with both my work computer and my home computer, the contacts on the two computers are always up to date with each other.

Yes, I overclock my machine too. For games I speed it up a bit, and for non-CPU intensive apps, I underclock it to extend battery life.

 

[arthurb1]

Don't need a KB...my Palm III has very easy to learn writing techniques (letters really closely resemble the normal way to write them) Thinking about a compaq...is it easy to write with NFS4?

 

[NFS4]

Yes it is, I use Microsoft Transcriber. You can just write anywhere on the screen in cursive or print and it will automatically convert it to text.

It's about 95% accurate with my handwriting.

 

[Eug]

Well, graffitti is good too, but on either machine, it is virtually impossible to take notes of meetings without a keyboard (at least for me). With a portable keyboard I can type at around 50 words a minute. I'd guess my handwritten text entry is less than 1/3rd that.

 

[NFS4]

<< Well, graffitti is good too, but on either machine, it is virtually impossible to take notes of meetings without a keyboard >>


It is very possible for me to take notes with transcriber. It's as easy as writing notes on a small piece of paper.

 

[Midnight Rambler]

They gave out PDA's at work to all technical staffers. Most are being used as paperweights ...

 

[Mday]

okay, that scan kinda freaked me out...

 

[NFS4]

<< okay, that scan kinda freaked me out... >>


Why??:Q

 

[arthurb1]

Graffiti is pretty easy to take notes with...like the day I forgot my pencil to my Biology class...it came in real handy then. Now I just want a voice recognition software taht will lear my prof's voices do I can just kick back during a lecture

 

[NFS4]

LOL, don't we all

 

[Horsepower]

Cassiopeia E105 used for schedule and address book. I went for the upgrade to the E115 offered by Casio until tomorrow (7/5). I use activesync 3.1 with Windows 98SE and Outlook 2000.

 

[NFS4]

I use ActiveSync 3.1 with Windows 2000 and Outlook 2000.

 

[NFS4]

<< How many mp3s can you store there? >>


Whoops, skipped over that question Actually, I convert my MP3's into WMA files. Sounds about the same to me. I currently have 15 songs on my 32MB Compact Flash card.

 

[randomlinh]

My handwriting is horrid. I don't think any software will ever learn it

I don't got all that many contacts i need to carry aroud, and well, my schedule is made up along the way Damn, I can't justify buying one. OH well.

 

[Mday]

i have no idea why it freaked me out... maybe it was all the pixels and that it was showing this thread... or it was because the picture was freaking huge.