Just Got A New PDA!
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Just Got A New PDA!
My dad (boss) wanted me to keep track of gas useage at work for all of our equipment. I have been wanting a PDA for a while so I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to get one. I told my dad that I couldn't really keep track of the litres used on a piece of paper then put into an Excel spreadsheet. It just wouldn't work. 
I said, "why don't you get me a PDA then I can always have access to it" then I could "beam" the file to him too!
So he got me one. It is the HP iPAQ 2210 Pocket PC. It works pretty good. I am happy with it. Cost $500 plus taxes (Canadian).
Anyone else here have one? Any suggestions on cool things I can do?
-Matt
I said, "why don't you get me a PDA then I can always have access to it" then I could "beam" the file to him too!
So he got me one. It is the HP iPAQ 2210 Pocket PC. It works pretty good. I am happy with it. Cost $500 plus taxes (Canadian).Anyone else here have one? Any suggestions on cool things I can do?
-Matt
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Wow! No one else has one or does cool things? Oh well. 
-Matt
P.S. For you people that do here is a cool site for themes: www.pocketpcthemes.com Do a search for "FORD". Pretty neat!
-Matt
P.S. For you people that do here is a cool site for themes: www.pocketpcthemes.com Do a search for "FORD". Pretty neat!
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Don't mean no harm but, I read in the business section the other day and it said PDAs are almost dead now. Manufacturers are diminishing them as cell phones becomes more and more powerful. They can pretty much do all the things PDAs do and more.
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My dad gave me one because he opened an investment fund or something. It was supposed to be a POS, but they must have run out so they gave him a Palm Tungsten E. And he gave it to me because he has a top of the line dell. These things are sweet.
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I had a Handspring Visor (w/ the Palm OS) about 3 years ago that I used in school a ton - even got a keyboard that folded out to take notes in class. Before that I had a Palm IIIe, I think... they were fun and handy, and then the PocketPC versions displaced the Palms... and now, yeah, it seems PDA's are dying out.
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I have one. the IPAQ hx4705, it replaced my IPAQ 3955 has all the bells and whistels on it. wifi, bluetooth, etc. I sometimes wonder how I survived without it. I keep all my names and phone # on it for work (around 1000). I keep track of job write ups and scheduled appointments also. Alot of people don't know how much PDAs integrate with your pc(Windows,not sure on Mac). I waiting to switch to the new Outlook 2003, I stuck with 2000 as I like the faxing software built in(2002/Office XP does not support faxing from within as easily as 2000/2003). The Palm line of PDAs need special software to sync. with Microsoft Office (on your pc)and still has issuses.
PDAs can't be dying down that much, HP has had a hard time building enough of the older 5500 series and this new series. I think why they say they are dying out is because it is not the latest greatest fad and the PDA cell phone is, which is going to dye out even faster once people get sick of carrying such a large cell phone.
PDAs can't be dying down that much, HP has had a hard time building enough of the older 5500 series and this new series. I think why they say they are dying out is because it is not the latest greatest fad and the PDA cell phone is, which is going to dye out even faster once people get sick of carrying such a large cell phone.
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I've got a Palm Zire 71. I've got lots of free shareware on it (handyshopper, unit converter, games), and use it at work quite frequently. The Zire 71 has a camera built in, and I plug photos of equipment into my reports. I suppose I could live without it if I had a decent cell phone, but the company doesn't spring for one of those fancy numbers. There is a better one already out there (Zire 72) that I'd like to upgrade to.
Good point about PC integration, crash. It wouldn't be nearly as useful if I couldn't plug data and photos into Microsoft Office reports.
Good point about PC integration, crash. It wouldn't be nearly as useful if I couldn't plug data and photos into Microsoft Office reports.
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From: LAX, most of the time :)
Have a Palm T2 that I keep most of my LAX files on. Like it because it has a digital voice recorder on it also - useful for when you can't stop what you're doing to "graffiti" in a note (like when Mr 777 is trying to run you over!)
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I have the Ipaq 2210/2215. The most useful function I have found for it is using it as a check register, with Microsoft Money. And I had a NES emulator on it with a bunch of games, that was fun. It is a great PDA, I have had mine for about 1.5 years now.
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Ryan: Yes it does. It is the same as mschaeffer's (HP iPAQ 2210). Makes it pretty good to do Excel files then I can SYNC up with my laptop and print or view the files. The only problem is you would not want to LONG letters or whatnot unless you had a mini-keyboard that you could hookup to it. But, it makes it good for small notes or messages that you need to do. Definetly would recommend it.
-Matt
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