Do You Use a PDA - Which One?

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JHEM · #61 Post by **JHEM** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:25 pm

BigWarpGuy wrote:I have a Palm TungstenE pda. It is really nice.

I broke down and upgraded my ancient Palm Vx to a Tungsten E2 also.

It's got Bluetooth, WiFi and I bought a Palm GPS for it.

Battery life sucks, but the color display is nice.

Regards,

James

christopher_wolf · #62 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Fri May 05, 2006 8:25 pm

Palm m105

#63 Post by **underclocker** » Fri May 05, 2006 11:07 pm

Palm m500, battery lasts a month plus it's thin and light.

I've been using Palms for 10 years, since it's introduction.

#64 Post by **draco2527** » Sat May 06, 2006 3:22 am

Palm Visor (Like NEW) - Used Twice-

WorkPad c3(like new) - Used Twice-

Current....

Axim X3 with BT and WiFi built in.

EDIT: OOPS...should have said X30 (624MHZ)

ninjapirate350 · #65 Post by **ninjapirate350** » Tue May 09, 2006 10:21 pm

Palm Zire 72, the builtin digital camera takes worse pictures than most camera phones, but it serves the purposes that I need it for.

Yet, for some reason, I still have post-its on the dashboard of my truck..

christopher_wolf · #66 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Tue May 09, 2006 10:39 pm

ninjapirate350 wrote: Yet, for some reason, I still have post-its on the dashboard of my truck..

I believe you, I still found myself doing that after awhile.

Probably, however, I need an upgrade to the m105; ideally, it would have WiFi, Bluetooth, and a good color screen without draining the cells dry within 1 hour. My m105 is very good about battery life when it is on, but it starts sucking battery power when it is off like nothing else I have seen.

KF9YR · #67 Post by **KF9YR** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:02 pm

Treo 650 - I sync with my work Outlook/Exchange server for my calendar and email and also have a gmail account for just the phone.

The Palm / TomTom Bluetooth GPS works great.

Syncs fine with my T30. I used to carry a phone, PDA, and MP3 player (and was thinking about getting a GPS Navigation system) and can now take just one device.

After buying the Treo, GPS, BT headset, Leather case, 2 gig SD card, and Shure wired IC2-t headset (for listening to music on bike rides / planes) I could have paid for another Thinkpad.

My wife and I work for the same company though so I tell her all our family appt.s have to be sent to me as a meeting notice and that way I have a reminder to keep me out of trouble for missing the kids' soccer games, etc...

JHEM · #68 Post by **JHEM** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:17 pm

KF9YR wrote:My wife and I work for the same company though so I tell her all our family appt.s have to be sent to me as a meeting notice and that way I have a reminder to keep me out of trouble for missing the kids' soccer games, etc...

Hey George, if I reply to this post does that mean I worked your shack?

I WANT WALLPAPER!!!!

(I know, QFA!)

James

KF9YR · #69 Post by **KF9YR** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:51 pm

James,

Can't give you credit for working my shack because I'm using my TP in the living room instead of my shack PC...

If you REALLY need some wallpaper you can print some from here!

http://www.qsl.net/kf9yr/

JHEM · #70 Post by **JHEM** » Thu May 11, 2006 11:26 pm

KF9YR wrote:If you REALLY need some wallpaper you can print some from here!

Just isn't the same George.

Now, where did I put my Yaesu when the linear burned my shack down???

Regards,

James

KF9YR · #71 Post by **KF9YR** » Thu May 11, 2006 11:47 pm

Ouch! Did you really have a linear catch fire and burn your shack down? I'm hoping that's a wink emoticon!

I haven't let the smoke out of any of my rigs or linears (yet) but we have had an explosion in our kitchen while I was making some contacts in a contest a few years ago.

My wife was cooking for a family get-together so our stovetop was full. My son NEEDED a couple of hard-boiled eggs because he was STARVING. It's amazing how much mess two eggs can make after they explode (and my wife got a bump on the forehead when the microwave door flew open)!

Do you have a callsign? It would be quite a coincidence if I worked you on the air sometime.

73,

George

JHEM · #72 Post by **JHEM** » Fri May 12, 2006 12:00 am

KF9YR wrote:Ouch! Did you really have a linear catch fire and burn your shack down? I'm hoping that's a wink emoticon!

Yeah, that's a wink. Although I did let the magic smoke out of the 100 watt overshoes in my car once, does that count?

KF9YR wrote:Do you have a callsign? It would be quite a coincidence if I worked you on the air sometime.

I only had a novice license and you'd have to be older than dirt and used a steam powered key to have worked me!

3s,

James

christopher_wolf · #73 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Fri May 12, 2006 12:10 am

The slightly frightening part is that I probably know a little bit about what you two are talking about.

#74 Post by **GomJabbar** » Fri May 12, 2006 4:51 am

christopher_wolf wrote:The slightly frightening part is that I probably know a little bit about what you two are talking about.

Yeah, me too. Me pappi was involved in simular shenanigans. WOBJK

KF9YR · #75 Post by **KF9YR** » Sat May 13, 2006 4:21 pm

JHEM wrote: Yeah, that's a wink. Although I did let the magic smoke out of the 100 watt overshoes in my car once, does that count?

Well it's close but no cigar...

JHEM wrote: I only had a novice license and you'd have to be older than dirt and used a steam powered key to have worked me!

Well sometimes I feel older than dirt but don't think I qualify yet...

- George

KF9YR · #76 Post by **KF9YR** » Sat May 13, 2006 4:36 pm

GomJabbar wrote:
christopher_wolf wrote:The slightly frightening part is that I probably know a little bit about what you two are talking about.
Yeah, me too. Me pappi was involved in simular shenanigans. WOBJK

Well, it's an interesting hobby.

Good excuse to buy a lot of expensive electronic devices and link them all with computers...

My main rig is controlled by a logging program that also sends the frequency to my antenna which tunes itself to resonance on that frequency. I still have a computerized rotator on my "to get" list (program turns antenna to correct heading).

I hardly ever use my CW Key anymore because the computer can key the rig so I don't have to take my hands off the keyboard.

For voice modes the program can use pre-recorded .wav files to keep my voice from wearing out in a weekend-long contest.

Laptops work well as they are pretty quiet (both audio-wise and radio interference-wise).

73 (Best Regards),

George

#77 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sat May 13, 2006 6:18 pm

You should have seen my dad's rig. He eventually upgraded it for a transceiver at the end, but for many years he used the following:

1st bay 4' w X 4' d X 5' h
2nd bay 3' w X 2' d X 4' h
3rd bay 3' w X 2' d X 6' h

All that for the transmitter. He bought it off some guy that made it himself. The receiver was a National Standard about 2' w X 1' d X 1' h. He used a CW key quite a bit, but he also used a "bug" sometimes. He transmitted on voice as well, but his transmitter was AM, so he was limited to only a few frequencies.

I don't remember the antenna he used at the home I was born into, but at the next home (about the time I entered 1st grade) he installed a horizontal dipole antenna that spanned the length of the roof. He had the antenna wire suspended between two tall wooden supports. My mom hated the appearance of it at her new home.

We moved again about the time I entered 6th grade. To appease my mom's aesthetic sense to the degree possible, he installed an inverted V dipole antenna at this home. It had several bands coming down off of a single galvanized pole mounted on the center of the roof.

I learned the code a couple of times, but never sat for a license. So I did not follow in my dad's footsteps and become an operator.

KF9YR · #78 Post by **KF9YR** » Sun May 14, 2006 11:50 am

GomJabbar wrote:You should have seen my dad's rig. He eventually upgraded it for a transceiver at the end, but for many years he used the following:

1st bay 4' w X 4' d X 5' h
2nd bay 3' w X 2' d X 4' h
3rd bay 3' w X 2' d X 6' h

All that for the transmitter.

Nowdays they call those huge old rigs "boatanchors"

GomJabbar wrote:My mom hated the appearance of it at her new home.

How well I understand this...

I started out with a vertical antenna, then switched to a long horizontal dipole. Now I have a tower (50') and 3-element beam (18' long with 3 36' elements).

My wife keeps telling me I should invent a really good antenna that is much smaller and not an eyesore. She says wives of hams will let them purchase it regardless of the cost. I try to explain the way that radio waves work and the frequencies involved don't allow that but she's still a skeptic...

I like operating the ham equipment because it still seems like magic having radio waves from an antenna in the back yard travel 1/2 way around the world giving me the ability to talk to someone else...

tuktuk · #79 Post by **tuktuk** » Sun May 14, 2006 3:51 pm

Clamshell Zaurus is the best thing ever. At the moment I use Zaurus SL-C3100 with Cacko Rom. It is with me always, everywhere.

tjb229 · #80 Post by **tjb229** » Wed May 17, 2006 4:00 pm

Palm Tungsten E2

bhtooefr · #81 Post by **bhtooefr** » Mon May 22, 2006 4:30 am

Sony Clie PEG-SJ22.

Last Sony product ever. And that's only because this one was free.

PDA itself seems nice, except the jog dial's back button is busted. Gotta open it up and check that.

What I really want is a mini PC. Something like... http://www.old-computers.com/museum/com ... t=1&c=1088

Or, even a vintage pocket computer, like... http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=936 (granted, I have a TI-83+ Mk2 (Mk2 has the updated crappy LCD...

), so it does everything that that does and so much more...)

christopher_wolf · #82 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Mon May 22, 2006 4:44 am

I have one for you to top that; *plus* it is an IBM Thinkpad.

http://www.bostonpda.org/pc110/pt_main.htm

and

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/ ... 110faq.htm

Built-in Trackpoint mouse for something that small...Pretty cool

bhtooefr · #83 Post by **bhtooefr** » Mon May 22, 2006 5:32 am

And, that can run Win95, too... *drool*

That was pretty much the last in that class, right?

Of course, I know others are trying to bring that class back... OQO...

#84 Post by **draco2527** » Mon May 22, 2006 11:51 am

christopher_wolf wrote:I have one for you to top that; *plus* it is an IBM Thinkpad.

http://www.bostonpda.org/pc110/pt_main.htm

Nice! What are they going for these day's (if you can find one!)

Trade for a X30?

christopher_wolf · #85 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Mon May 22, 2006 6:02 pm

draco2527 wrote:
christopher_wolf wrote:I have one for you to top that; *plus* it is an IBM Thinkpad.

http://www.bostonpda.org/pc110/pt_main.htm

Nice! What are they going for these day's (if you can find one!)

Trade for a X30?

LOL; I only wish *I* had one....By that I meant the link. I have actually been looking for one of those to get my hands on as well.

I saw one on eBay not too long ago; can't remember the price but it came with the power cord and battery.

And it is indeed capable of running Windows 95 unfettered; BSD and Linux as well for that matter. Had its own little modem jack and pretty much 80% of the features of my 701c.

pphilipko · #86 Post by **pphilipko** » Tue May 23, 2006 4:59 am

m515 and Palm TX.

The WiFi on the TX can't be beat!

christopher_wolf · #87 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Tue May 23, 2006 2:40 pm

Yeah, but I have been trying to find a PDA that has Wireless and Bluetooth abilities without costing alot; so far, I haven't been very successful in finding something like that. Although the TX is a pretty good deal for how much you get in the end.

BruisedQuasar · #88 Post by **BruisedQuasar** » Tue May 23, 2006 5:53 pm

Casio Casiopeia BE-300 orphan Pocket Organizer, a CE 3.0 device.
The 300 is a great buy as the Casio crippled version of Windows CE 3.0 is unusually modifiable. An unusual global group of enthusiasts gather around this device, producing hacks, called Operating Environments which allow major alteration of the software capacity.

With the best O/Es xPod and the even better Russian enthusiast programmed BeShell we can install and run many programs and utilities meant for Palm and other PDAs.

We have two BE 300 (which fit in a shirt pocket nicely). My wife uses one for her solitary card games, which she plays during commercial breaks while watching her favorite TV shows & I use mine for several uses, primarily for a pocket library. Anywhere I have to wait for something--in traffic, in line, waiting room, etc--I click Ubook and resume reading a book or a text. The rectangle shape is perfect for reading, since Ubook allows me to shift pages sideways.

The stereo jack is good for music too. Our O/Es allow us to run many programs from CF card, so the 32MB (Ram + ROM) memory limit is no bother.

The price is great. I got ours factory new for about $40 each, off eBay.

--Bruised

christopher_wolf · #89 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:14 am

Very interesting...I was indeed a bit suprsied at what you could do with it

Example, an IBM Microdrive in the CF slot; talk about large storage space on a small system. It also appears to be quite versatile in terms of navigation and use; crippled version of Windows CE notwithstanding, at this point...I have become a little tired of seeing stuff get this way on palmtop devices so dealing with it is not really much of a bother. Worst comes to worst, I will do some work and modifications on it and to customize the O/E seeing as how there seems to be a good spate of such applications already ported to it.

As far as looks go; I must say I am impressed by it, to some it appears larger than other models but that is always variable.

Not to mention how it stacks up, cost-wise, against the other Handhelds ($545 for the Cassiopeia E200?!). The iPaq may have been the cheapest, but it is a linear scale down; along with the price go such things as the CF slot and versatility.

This is definitely in my Top 5; thanks for the heads up.

lowie · #90 Post by **lowie** » Sat May 27, 2006 3:02 pm

pat wrote:I have a Smartphone. Verizon palmOne Treo 600.

Have one too. Very unhappy about calling functionalities; lot of background noise, and conversations cut off before i pick up the phone etc...
However, synchronisation features and the range of programs you can install on it are splendid!

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