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

[NFS4]

Compaq Aero 2110/Pocket PC

I use mine for my contact list, taking notes and making voice messages, connecting to the Internet with my 56k CF modem, viewing AvantGo channels, and as an MP3 player.

 

[Czar]

I dont have one but I know one guy at work who has a Casio PDA. He uses it to store all the IP addresses on the network, bunchof info on the network and varius info that the net admin knows but doesnt write down, se he is sortof a backup if the admin falls on his head

 

[NFS4]

Yeah, I also keep all of my Product ID's for MS apps in their too when I have to reinstall. I also read EBooks on it which is VERY cool

 

[Duckers]

how much did you pay for yours ?

 

[NFS4]

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+

Since then, I have bought the Microsoft/Compaq PocketPC OS upgrade (incudes 24MB RAM) for $99 and I bought the modem for $99. So I've paid $400 altogether--the price I should have paid for the PDA alone

 

[randomlinh]

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?

 

[Duckers]

that's cool.
NFS4, can u access this web page from that Pocket PC ?
can you show us a screen shot ?

 

[Czar]

PDA's are the future, I´m just waiting fora PDA that is bigger, A4 sized with color screen about 1-2cm thick. Well maybe I´m not going to wait that long.

Anyone know when those webpads from cyrix are comming?

 

[NFS4]

Hold on, lemme go get the Polaroid and I'll take a picture (you can't do screenshots on the PDA)

 

[Duckers]

oh ok. I can wait

 

[Becks]

sigh.... I had a PDA HAD! then I misplaced it or someone stole it. Not sure which.

 

[NFS4]

Ahh hell, the flash got partly in the way...you can still make it out though

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bahill2/compaqpda.jpg

Polaroids suck, and my dad is all out of film

 

[alchemist]

Had one of those philips nino 500's used it for mp3's, sold it soon after and made a nice profit (had no real use for one)

 

[NFS4]

Whoah, found some more film

 

[Duckers]

ha ha, thanks a lot NFS4, don't you have a scanner ?

 

[NFS4]

See below

 

[NFS4]

I was afraid of killing my PDA

Lemme try that

 

[Czar]

Cool, Anandtech on a PDA in color

 

[NFS4]

Here you go, 514kb:

The scanner pics up the gridlines in the LCD screen and displays them...kinda cool looking, but not what you see in real life. It also seems a bit dimmer

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bahill2/compaqpda2.jpg

 

[SUOrangeman]

I primarily use my Casio E-11 for synching contact infor between my work and home computers. The battery mega-drainage that early WinCE devices faced has kept me from using it more. I have rechargeable batteries, but still.

http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/pdq/index.html

I saw one of these at Best Buy today. Man, it was huge!! Granted, this is the firt iteration of a real PDA and a cell phone. Thus, the reviews haven't been favorable. Maybe with a few more enhancements, something like this will be the must-have item. WHile I'm partialy to WinCE at the moment, I'd jump to Palm if these take off in that direction.

-SUO

 

[Charles]

How many mp3s can you store there?

 

[403Forbidden]

I have a Palm IIIx

I didn't know how much I would need it until after i got it. It really helps me at my job

 

[Duckers]

NFS4, thanks for scanning/uploading the picture of your Compaq Pocket PC.
I also took my time and created a more comprehensive Picture of your little PC:

http://www.crosswinds.net/~devicemanager/pocketpc/pocketpc.html

 

[GL]

You should see AnandTech on my cellphone And I only paid $50 for the Qualcomm 2760...and that's Canadian Anyhow, I have a Palm IIIxe and use it for scheduling, e-mail, AvantGo, simple games, e-books, and hopefully for taking notes next semester once I get a keyboard for it. I've also used my Palm as a remote for my TV, a mirror, a RPN calculator, a telnet client to telnet to my linux box, a VNC client to "run" Windows 2000 from my Palm, and some other useless things.

EDIT: I forgot to mention I've also used my Palm for overclocking, getting the standard Motorola Dragonball EZ processor from its standard 16MHz up to 33MHz and no crashes

-GL

 

[veryape]

I had a neopoint pda/phone that i got a very good deal on ($100 for a $400 phone/pda). Sold it for $200 because i really had no use for it.