Re: Hardware - Recommended Makes?

Hi Sven,

Thanks again for your reply...

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.

Bah! So microsofts solution was to remove the feature, instead of secure it.
:-(

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.

True I guess. Still, I'd prefer to be in that 1 million people. ;-)

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.

Yeah - I'm not really wanting to go with the phone market either at present.
Here in Australia a new 3G system is due to be released early next year. No
use buying a phone now, if it's going to be outdated soon...

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.

Ahh - the old re-badge trick. ;-)

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.

Really, their's a new OS on the horizon newer than wm5? I've been waiting
for 12 months before upgrading already. Maybe I should wait a little longer.
;-)

Cheers

Adam.


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