Dell you screwed up.
You developed one of the most incredible PDA lines in the world and you closed it down. Not much faith in your product line.
Two years ago, I had bought 2 laptops and a Axim X50 from you. I was in the process of buying a Axim X51V from your website when you discontinue it. Now your peddling Palm PDAs.
No wonder your having financial problems. You can’t stick with your products and your loyal customers are walking away from you.
I just bought three Laptops, two for Mother’s day gifts and one for my wife who is completing her masters and it wasn’t from you. I switched to Gateway. Customer loyalty is hard to built and your arrogant attitude of not giving us the reasons of why you discontinue a product. Ignoring fan websites built around your products, shows your poor desire to retain us.
You could have built the next generation line of Axims with a 30 or 60 GB internal storage add built in GPS capability for the top of the line Axim X52v or what ever you want to call it and blow away HP’s new PDA with GPS and only two gigs of memory. A multimedia oriented Axim to compete with Archos and give Sony PSP, Ipod and Zume a run for their money. Plus the added functionality of a PDA that these other companies don’t have. You could have added phone capability to it.
Once again, your Axims are awesome but if someone else develops a better one, I hope they sell a lot of them so you can slap yourself in the head because you were in a situation that you could have done that.
Check Ebay, Dum Dum, Axim’s X51v are still selling for over $500.00. Got mine from Ebay. Last product I buy made by you.
Last edited by Chris Leckness; 05-03-07 at 03:43 PM.
You developed one of the most incredible PDA lines in the world and you closed it down. Not much faith in your product line.
Two years ago, I had bought 2 laptops and a Axim X50 from you. I was in the process of buying a Axim X51V from your website when you discontinue it. Now your peddling Palm PDAs.
No wonder your having financial problems. You can’t stick with your products and your loyal customers are walking away from you.
I just bought three Laptops, two for Mother’s day gifts and one for my wife who is completing her masters and it wasn’t from you. I switched to Gateway. Customer loyalty is hard to built and your arrogant attitude of not giving us the reasons of why you discontinue a product. Ignoring fan websites built around your products, shows your poor desire to retain us.
You could have built the next generation line of Axims with a 30 or 60 GB internal storage add built in GPS capability for the top of the line Axim X52v or what ever you want to call it and blow away HP’s new PDA with GPS and only two gigs of memory. A multimedia oriented Axim to compete with Archos and give Sony PSP, Ipod and Zume a run for their money. Plus the added functionality of a PDA that these other companies don’t have. You could have added phone capability to it.
Once again, your Axims are awesome but if someone else develops a better one, I hope they sell a lot of them so you can slap yourself in the head because you were in a situation that you could have done that.
Check Ebay, Dum Dum, Axim’s X51v are still selling for over $500.00. Got mine from Ebay. Last product I buy made by you.
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You know with the x51v support debacle when it came out and the declining support for PDAs maybe Dell was losing money on these things left and right. Of course they could contract HTC to build a better PDA but would enough people buy it? With thin margins and a declining market they probably just wanted to move to better things. However, I am still a little surprised that they aren't selling the old model. But I think this was obvious all along when they released the x51v which was the bare minimum to keep the x50v alive, so really they've held on all this time.
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But as a owner of an Dell X3i i already decided to never buy any dell product again. Without an update from wm2003 to wm2003SE it iss impossible to use the build-in wireless lan with WPA. Which wlan is still uses WEP? I even would have payed for a update, but the dell support only told me there will be no update. Thank you dell. HP or Fujitsu-Siemens offer updates, sometimes for free. I think real support and custumer care should look like this.
I am the proud owner of an Axim X51V, having also owned an X50V, which I eventually got Dell to replace because of the Windows Mobile 5 issue. Now, I am far from being an oracle, but months and months ago I wrote on this site that in my opinion the Axim was history. The Dell flyers that came with the Sunday paper and the Dell mailers, never mentioned Axim even in the smallest print. I therefore questioned whether Dell was getting out of the PDA business altogether. Even the Dell kiosks at the shopping malls never displayed them, certainly not like they had in the several years prior. Unfortunately, I suffered the same fate with Phillips, with the purchase a black and white and then color PDA from them. They lasted in the PDA business for all of about two years. My feeling has been for a while that unless you combine a phone with the PDA, you are not going anywhere. I have now owned a Blackberry Pearl since last Christmas, about five months in all. I can't tell you how happy I am with its size, convenience and versatility. Yes, I know that it doesn't have all those Windows programs that I had with the Axim, but frankly, when I looked at the Axim, I wan't using half the stuff on it on a regular basis. I still have my Axim X51V, even though I tried unsuccessfully to sell it both at this site and at work. Absolutely no takers! Maybe that says a lot. What I do see as I am walking around, is that people are using Blackberries, but more importantly, I see an awful lot of Treos. I'm not sure if they are Palm or Windows-based, but whatever they are, they are out there and in large numbers. It's sad to see such a good product and idea like the Axim go down the tube, but maybe that's what progress is all about.
Wow, I think I want to sell my Axim x51v. I had no idea they were going for so much on ebay. I bought mine from Dell for much less than that. One year of enjoyment plus profit -- how can I turn that down?
I agree with all of you 100%. Dell had a good line of Pocket PCs that have never been made before, with especially the fast possessors never mentioned on other mobile devices. (maybe now there are models but I don't know).
When Dell stopped producing Axim X30s I was mad. Now when they said "lets close down the production for all Axims" I was pissed. Although 30-60 gig memory sounds a bit to high, it will be a good thing if Dell continues creating new models; but now its too late. I think because we are just a forum and Dell wont spend thousands of dollars just for a thousand of proud Axim users.
Oh and about not buying anything from Dell is a bit to rash. They make good products like PC screens and computer accessories.
Companys only discontinue product lines when there is lack of demand or there losing money on it. I read an article from dell about why the did kill the Axim line and they said it was because PDAs are declining in demand for them. Like now you can buy an UMPC which runs XP or Vista. I just dont see why they ended probably the best PDA line on the market! when other companys are struggling to keep up!
I loved my X50v, but my power connector started acting up. I was thinking of getting it fixed or even buying a X51v when the announcement came out. I liked having the PocketPC and phone separate, but I could read the writing on the wall. I am now the very happy owner of a Cingular 8525 based on the HTC TyTN. If I would have known how much I would love this combination, I would have got one sooner. It is really nice to only have one thing to carry.
Looking at it realistically, Dell had to make a choice. The PocketPC market is rapidly dying. More and more people are making the move to SmartPhones or full fledged PocketPCs that are also phone, like my 8525. Dell made a choice to not move into the very competative SmartPhone or PocketPC/Phone market. It would have been hard to do. HTC makes the Axim, but also make the phones like the 8525 that Cingular rebrands. Why would a cell phone carrier also offer a Dell product that they would also most likely offer under their brand? Besides that, how many of you would nuke them for selling out if they offered a SmartPhone or PocketPC/phone?
Guys everyone understands that Axim was and still is a great product. But you also have to see from Dell point of view, they were loosing money and or not selling enough. And no matter what you say the market is going toward converged devices. I, myself hate the idea, I am carrying PDA, Phone, iPod, Camera, GPS and etc. Not everyone is love to carry 7 items in their pockets or belt. Which is the reason why Dell left, I am pretty sure the have Engineers that did cost and profit analysis. A company just doesn't leave a product because they are tired of it. Well with that said I say research other devices and see what meets your needs. Simple as that! For example, for me the Nokia N95 looks really appealing. So please stop blaming Dell! If you owned a corporation like Dell you would have made the same decision. I mean not a single person likes to lose money!
Now:
1 IBM Thinkpad T60 for work and Field
1 Acer 6650 laptop (Wife)
2 Fujitsu LTc 500 tablet for kitchen and patio browsing (Ebay bargain!)
1 HTC S621 wm6 as a Phone - PDa - GPS- Email
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Axims selling strong on Ebay
Dell you screwed up. 
Dell you screwed up. 
because you were in a situation that you could have done that.
Stop!!!
