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I’ve been using palm pilots for several years now. I started out with a black and white palm phone, I forget the make, but it had 8 megs of memory and was almost as big as a brick. Then I lost it and got a Samsung Palm PDA phone, it had a color screen, 8 megs of memory and was slightly smaller than a brick. It worked for 2 years before we changed our cell service provider. So then I found a Treo 270 phone, which had 16 megs, and after a few months a big yellow spot on its screen. I found that it was easy to transfer all my phone numbers, games, memos, notes and “To Do’s” from one phone from the other as the palm OS almost requires the use of a PC. However as of today (September 2006) its almost impossible to get a good deal on a palm phone. Even on Ebay! Apparently, the FCC (or some big brother government agency) now requires all phones to have a GPS locator or some such on it, the older phones are just too wimpy, the hot new OS is windows mobile or there is a conspiracy to make us pay through the nose for cell phone pda convenience. Thus I picked up a cheap ‘regular’ cell phone for $20 and a Sony Peg-N610C for about $50. Now I have two things to carry around, but its not that bad. 1st, the cell phone is not a brick, its actually easy to just pop it in my pocket. And, If I’m going outside to bike/hike etc, I am not the least bit concerned about taking a $20 phone. Now I use my PDA differently. It still has all my contact info/schedule etc on it (again, easy to transfer from my PC) , but now it sits on my desk, or if I need it for ‘field work’ I can stick it in my pack. Yes, it is brick, but if I don’t want to carry it around, I don’t have too! It’s great for surfing downloaded web pages or books or daily newspapers (Plucker.com) during commercials, in lines, waiting rooms etc. or playing the myriad of freeware palm games (search for Patience on sourceforge.net) and, as I keep it backed up, I don’t mind handing it to the kids to keep them occupied. And there’s no OS boot wait. The screen is wonderful. It’s higher resolution and vibrant colors are much better than my previous pda phones. It came with a 128 MB Memory stick expansion card, which is almost impossible to fill up. I’ve put in home movies, pictures, several Gutenberg Ebooks, the Seattle times PDA version, The Onion PDA version and sometimes Slashdot (PDA version) and I haven’t even touched the memory capacity yet. Cons: The battery on used unit will probably be old. These are not easy to replace. If you have some technical skills, a new battery can be $12 on Ebay. However, I saw some postings to install the battery for about $40. And even new, the battery life is not fantastic. I get at most about 2 days, but the kids and I do play a lot of games on it. If you keep it in it’s charger base overnight, you’ll never hit this limit. Also Sony went for style over substance when they designed the up-down button. It takes some pushing with your fingernail to operate the button. The ‘scroll’ wheel on the side is very sensitive, often I scroll too much and push in instead of scroll, which can cause weird things to happen depending on the application. The stylus always threatens to fall out and get lost. I got the unit used so I don’t know if this is an inherent problem or if the ‘latch’ mechanism wore out. Finally, like most Palm OS’s it does crash every once in while, usually when I’m trying out some downloaded software.Vollständige Rezension lesen
I needed a pocket PDA to use with my laptop, and this little unit fits the bill. This is a preliminary step to an I-Pad and while it doesn't do all the I-Pad things, it's a nice unit for basic info, etc. I have had pretty good luck with Sony. Thank you very much.
Well, I was most surprise to discover that I had actually won. The case alone sold me, and when the PDA was in excellent condition i was most elated. Thanks
It's enough for myself. I needed some kind of calendar with my school, my kids school, work, dr's., etc.