Re: Hardware - Recommended Makes?

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Sven
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"Adam H." <ahairsub4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Sven, and thanks for your reply.

You can only sync via Wifi with a pre-WM5 device, or only to and Exchange
Server with a WM-5 device. You can use BT.

Wha!??! That seems like a crazy backwards step. Why on earth would MS
remove this feature. Maybe 2003se would be a better os to go with after
all. :-(

Agreed, but it was a security issue with syncing over IP. Not so much a home
user using WiFi, but the business user sitting at the coffee shop syncing
over WiFi, to the unprotected Internet to his home PC which shouldn't have
Company styuff on it anyway...but...the Enterprise IT dept wins on security
concerns.

I've read the USB stuff, and can say I've had two X50s since they came
out. The power supply stays connected to the cradle and the USB is always
plugged in. Have had no issues with any of the PCs that this setup has
been used on. Just slap the Axims in the cradles when they need to be.
The second one is my wife's. Different PCs, same setup.

That sounds encouraging. Unfortuatnly, I'm a laptop user, and carry the
laptop around quite a bit, which means constant plugging in - unplugging
of my usb cables. Maybe a powered USB hub would be a better way to go -
although it still concerns me that Dell have turned a blind eye to this
issue, even after 12 months. :-(

I and my wife use them travelling with laptops as well. No issues. Not
meaning to belittle the issue, but if one or two peeoples laptops blow up,
it's all over the world. If 1 million don't, that's not news and doesn't
warrant a forum post.

While this is a bad problem, I'm not sure how rampant the issue is, or
whether it is as much a substandard USB port issue. That said, it does
seem that Dell is no longer very excited by the PDA market. HP does seem
to be still involved, as far as big names go, and I've had good luck with
their products.

Erk. If Dell aren't excited by the PDA market, then after sales
service/support may be an issue. That is a high priority from my point of
view.

I've had good experience with Dells service. They just haven't released
anything new in a while and don't appear to be redying anything. The Market
seems to be going to converged devices, Phone Editions/Smartphones, and I'm
not sure Dell wants to play in that market. Typically it involves getting in
bed with a carrier, and that isn't their style.

I would say HTC is a company to watch, especially considering they build
almost everyone else's ;).

HTC? I'm not familiar with that brand. Maybe it's not available here in
Australia.

High Tech Computers. A Taiwanese manufacturer that is responsible for 80-90%
(guessing) of the devices out there. T-Mobile MDA, Cingular 8125, I-Mate
Wizard, and some others, all the same device, all made by HTC. They have
recently started to market directly, so it should be interesting. The Dell
X50/51 is manufactured by HTC if I'm not mistaken.

The biggest shame in this market is that you generally can't go down to
the local PC, or office store and feel one up. You pretty much have to go
by pictures, reviews, and personal experiences online.

That's why I'm here. :-)

That is changing a bit here in the US, at least when it comes to phone
devices. You can go to your local cell phone store and probably play
with a PPC Phone Edition, or a Smartphone. To see more than one kind
though you need to go to multiple carrier stores, and you get the carrier
with the phone.

Well, carrier's aren't a problem for me at present, as I'm not interested
in the phone, just as a PDA. :-)

Still, a wide variety of decisions will still need to be made. I'm very
dissapointed in the lack of syncing over wifi, but at least I now know it
*this* side of my purchase.

Is it easy to change the OS (ie, can you upgrade to wm5, or downgrade to
2003se on the PDA's?)

No. You cannot downgrade a WM5 device. If you have a WM2003SE device, AND
the OEM offerred an upgrade to WM5 (few of these, and typically not great
performance), then you could most likely go back. There would potentially
be a desire to, incidentally. I have no great issues with my native WM5
devices. I think they are as stable as my fully patched X-50, and have
significant benefits (and a few drawbacks). The performance of WM2003
devices that were upgraded though has never been reported as stellar. I have
the CD to upgrade my X50, but I have never applied it. Works to good the way
it is. I wouldn't buy a 2003SE device today though, unless money was a real
object and you got a great deal. WM2003SE is shortly going to be two
generations ago, not just last generation.




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