It took my encode of The Crow (191meg) 30 minutes to copy to my Axim. I've read around and found this is normal. About how much faster would a USB media reader copy a file the same size? I'm trying to figure out if it's worthwhile to buy one. I was looking at the Iwill CR611 and the Inwin CR e500 on Newegg.

Hmm i have no answers but id be interested in this too, i went out today and totally forgot about it (id been planning on one).

IT took me almost a hour and a half to fill my 256 mb card.

Dell Axim X5 Advanced w/ pxa 255
256 mb Lexar SD card
256 mb Simpletech CF card
Rhinoskin Aluminum hard case

Card readers are a lot faster to transfer files, I don't know why. I can copy a whole album across via the reader in about the same time to copy a single song via the cradle.

Card readers are dirt cheap, particularly if you live in the US.

Yeah the card readers are really cheap. Usually around $30 but sometimes as low as $15 or $10, if you live in the US.

Is that an Axim in your pocket, or you just glad to see me?

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Amazon has rebates good through the end of this month on a Dazzle 6 in 1 reader. It would be around $10 after rebate w/free super saver shipping...

whoops, it looks like Amazon took down the rebate--can't find it on their site right now. it's supposed to be good until August 31st 2003.

oh well, that's the trouble with these online rebates. they tend to disappear if the marketing folks find what they are looking for...

it's cuz even though your Axim's cradle is a USB interface - the connector that connects the Axim to the cradle (or cable) is a proprietery serial interface, so it's much slower than USB - and that's where the bottleneck lies.

in other words, you're not actually using USB speeds yes card readers are much faster, and your 90MB file would take 60 seconds to copy over (in theory, not in practice). so expect about 3 minutes or less i would say.

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Dell Axim X5 Advanced (400Mhz)
Windows Mobile 2003 (A05)
RhinoSkin Aluminum Hardcase
D-Link DCF-660W CF WiFi Card

Newegg has got the Biostar 6in1 USB 1.1card reader at $9.50 with free shipping + a free ball point pen... (I got this reader and it works flawlessly with Win XP with no drivers required..).. can't beat the price. Link here


just copied a 228 Mb movie in 4 min 13 secs. to a 512 Mb CF card which works out to about 54 Mb/min

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Thanks to everyone that replied to my question....I ordered the Iwin reader from Newegg and it's working like a dream. I was able to copy a 210meg file in 4 minutes.