Chris, have you tried using the patch?
Seriously, though, sometimes a business gets into something like this; they had the best of intentions going into it, hoping to bring the best and newest to their customers. But Mr. Murphy had to start waving his law degree around, and they suffered from a comedy of errors and a seriously hemorrhaging product line. Too bad, they got it so right with the X50 line and WM2003SE.
Shareholders ain't going to stand idly by whilst a "bad" product flounders. I sincerely hope Dell gets the bugs fixed, including their support branch, if only for our sakes. We did pay, we are also non-PDA Dell customers.
'pissing into the wind' isnt an original quote. its been around for ever. sure its funny and applies to whats happening. but the guy that wrote that to chris didnt event it. still waiting to see the response dell has to the letter .... [yawwwn]
I don't disagree with the overall sentiments but I think the tone of the email is not conducive to getting the end results sought. IMO too much of a rant and not constructuve enough. Does it get attention? Maybe. Will it get results? Maybe. Could it have been worded differently? Most definitely. If Dell is on the fence on PDAs one needs to be careful not to push them over to the wrong side.
Well I don't agree with you deguardo I do think the letter was well written and I think that a little rant is good for the soul. I do believe the emphasis could be placed on the fact that Dell Axim users are in many cases user’s of many Dell products. I personally have been responsible for eh purchase of 9 Dell computers this year alone for my Church’s network and 3 last year and will probably keep the cycle going as we “refresh” on a 2 year cycle.
Dell needs to be reminded that a customer in the technology market / world is a consumer in more than one stream of technology. Also I believe Chris delivered a hard hitting impact by directing the comments as coming not just from himself but from the membership at large. It is about the money and we all know that, but there is money spent today and there is money spent in the future. Dell needs to recognize that a dissatisfaction with one product can and will have an impact on the rest of their product line….of course this rational can also be used by them to decide that the AX needs to die…we will see what, if any, response is received……by the way this is a great discussion
'pissing into the wind' isnt an original quote. its been around for ever. sure its funny and applies to whats happening. but the guy that wrote that to chris didnt event it. still waiting to see the response dell has to the letter .... [yawwwn]
Ever wonder why Aximsite.com was down today? That's Dell's response
Maybe they got their crack team of developers off the X50v WM5 upgrade software team and
concentrated on taking down aximsite.com.... Or maybe not.
BL
I do not have the technical expertise that most of you do, however, one would think that someone out there would come up with some sort of "add-on" for my Axim X-50V with Windows Mobile 5, that makes it a cell phone, without being a hard core geek
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I do not have the technical expertise that most of you do, however, one would think that someone out there would come up with some sort of "add-on" for my Axim X-50V with Windows Mobile 5, that makes it a cell phone, without being a hard core geek
You could do this in a couple of ways. I am assuming you are interested in making voice calls, and it doesn't matter if it uses cellular technology or not.
1. Skype has a client you can use with PocketPC device. Check out "http://www.skype.com/download/skype/mobile/". This uses VOIP technology. You will need a good speed internet connection on your PDA.
2. There is a GPRS card available in CompactFlash format which actually uses cellular (GPRS) technology which you can use too. This is available from Convergent Technology. Check out "http://www.convergentech.com/gprs_quick_setup.aspx". You will need to purchase a SIM card with airtime. Also you will need a dialer application like "Running Voice". This will convert your PDA to a cellphone.
Hope this helps. Both options are easy to implement - you dont need to be a "geek" to use them.
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I think I'm done with Dell's products, PDAs and the PCs whether the laptops or the desktops. Coherent support is non-existent and I doubt if the PDA is viable any longer. I think I am going to stick with the "better" laptops that are becoming more and more sophisticated and cost effective. For example, check out M-Tech or Sager or ProStar. Here is a link to an M-Tech laptop for $675.00: http://www.m-techlaptops.com/specifi...techm540v.html
Don't get me wrong, I have really enjoyed my PDA and the folks here on Aximsite have been very helpful and the community is very savvy. I will stay a member because of these reasons and not because of Michael Dell's winning attitude or his product line.
What's it been now, 6 weeks since the poll was done and Chris sent his open letter to DELL. Still no response from DELL, not Mikey, the "development team", the shipping clerk; nothing.
I recently purchased 4 new laptops for my companies sales people. We went from DELL to Sony Vaio and never looked back. The company took my opinion to buy Sony and DELL formed that opinion with their lack of action.
I wonder how much the 3-year-warranty costs and what the real screen quality is (it's pretty hard to beat an IBM FlexView screen IMHO - for example, all HP notebook screens I've seen so far are plain awful compared to that of my Thinkpad a31p - even high-resolution ones).
I'm pretty afraid of "noname" "consumer" (non-business) notebook manufacturers (or, for that matter, any consumer notebook series even from "quality" notebook manufacturers - the (particularly the older, nx9000 series) NX and the Pavilion of HP, the Toshi Satellite, the Acer Aspire, the Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo, the Dell Inspiron, and, to a lesser degree, the IBM Thinkpad R series (particularly the 'e' ones).
I think I'm done with Dell's products, PDAs and the PCs whether the laptops or the desktops. Coherent support is non-existent and I doubt if the PDA is viable any longer. I think I am going to stick with the "better" laptops that are becoming more and more sophisticated and cost effective. For example, check out M-Tech or Sager or ProStar. Here is a link to an M-Tech laptop for $675.00: http://www.m-techlaptops.com/specifi...techm540v.html
Yeah ... $675 for the minimal laptop. If you configure it with the features your really WANT (need?) you're probably looking at closer to $1200 or more.
I agree, at times, the PDA sometimes seems like it could be considered a redundant component - just take the laptop along! Then I find myself waiting in the lobby of the doctor's office, or waiting for a flight (or ON the flight!) or sitting in a meeting needing to dash off a quick few notes (or play a game while the boss rambles on about nothing important!) [shh ... I didn't say that!] or in the middle of the night when I can't sleep but don't want to get the laptop out and feel like reading or listening to some music or doing some bible study or when I just need to look up a name/phone number without having to boot up the "big" computer - or need to make a quick wind vector calculation for a flight I'm planning in the Cessna... the list could go on.
I think as long as quick responsive data-access needs to be done there will be PDA's. The PDA does not replace the laptop - but, then again, the laptop doesn't replace the PDA either. My Axim is an EXTENSION of my notebook at the house. It's nice to be able to just toss the thing in my duffel bag and have it instantly available when I need it.
Yeah ... $675 for the minimal laptop. If you configure it with the features your really WANT (need?) you're probably looking at closer to $1200 or more.
And that doesn't include the probably bad, all-plastic build quality (hinges break after a dozen opening/clsoing the notebook etc), overheating etc, which is far too common in this price category (and with all the notebook series I've listed).
You have to pay for quality. It's not the name that you pay for in a say, X or T-series Thinkpad but the quality and the reliability. It just won't break on you, unlike cheap cr@p.
Originally Posted by CodeBubba
I agree, at times, the PDA sometimes seems like it could be considered a redundant component - just take the laptop along! Then I find myself waiting in the lobby of the doctor's office, or waiting for a flight (or ON the flight!) or sitting in a meeting needing to dash off a quick few notes (or play a game while the boss rambles on about nothing important!) [shh ... I didn't say that!] or in the middle of the night when I can't sleep but don't want to get the laptop out and feel like reading or listening to some music or doing some bible study or when I just need to look up a name/phone number without having to boot up the "big" computer - or need to make a quick wind vector calculation for a flight I'm planning in the Cessna... the list could go on.
I think as long as quick responsive data-access needs to be done there will be PDA's. The PDA does not replace the laptop - but, then again, the laptop doesn't replace the PDA either. My Axim is an EXTENSION of my notebook at the house. It's nice to be able to just toss the thing in my duffel back and have it instantly available when I need it.
The PDA is dead, NOT!
Completely agreed. I use my high-end DTR notebook for entirely different purposes than my Pocket PC's - they are complementary technologies in this respect. You can't expect even a VGA POcket PC to beat a, say, 1600*1200 Windows notebook in a lot of things and vice versa.
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That's Dell's response 
