Originally posted by aximluvah Yes, sadly I have to support them on our LAN and they do not like Outlook. Talk till your blue in the face it won't change my mind, it happens too often, for it to be coincidence. Oh and another thing that sucks about Palms (that I just discovered today) unless your willing to buy an add on you can't charge certain models without the cradle, it has no port for the charger :)
It's nothing personal..but it is (against the Palm not you)
I owned an m100, loathed its ineffectiveness swore off all handhelds (it was that aggrevating) found and fell in love with the ax, :love: the end
1) For synching with Outlook the best choice is Desktop-to-Go. It synchs with Outlook beautifully. Bundle that with with Documents-to-Go and you get much better desktop support than the crappy P-Word and P-Excel.
2) A charging cable is available for all Palms, it just hooks up to the same port as the synch cable does.
3) The M100 was a piece of cr*p, at least compared to true PDA's. It was marketed as a beginner unit, similar to what the base-model Zire is now.
As for synching issues, are you trying to get multiple units to sync remotely? Other than that Palm is strictly sync-on-demand and NOBODY I know has trouble getting their Palm's to sync. Far more stable that ActiveSync if you ask me. I do like how AS stays connected full-time though. Adding apps to Palm means running a full sync routine whereas with AS it's drag-n-drop.
I'm out too. I ordered an Axim X5 Advanced on June 29; got it in early July. I came over from a Sony Clié N610 and wasn't willing to pay what Sony was pricing the new Cliés. So I researched and researched and went for the Axim.
Boy, was I disappointed. At first I thought maybe it was just me. Applications would run fairly quickly, then inexplicably, hang. Or just run slowly, then run faster again. (Diamond Mine was particularly frustrating. It'd start out okay, then get really slow, then run okay again, then run slow...you get the idea). Same with other applications. Plus the Ambicom CF 802.11b wireless NIC wouldn't work properly most of the time (but when it did, I must admit it was pretty cool). At least I could see the potential of the Axim and MM2003.
I've gotta go out-of-town for three weeks and had hoped to have a functioning Axim with MM2003 to take with me. It quickly became apparent to me that Dell just "didn't get it". I started reading the forums here at Aximsite and Brighthand and quickly came to the conclusion that I wasn't the only one having problems with the Dell running MM2003. And Dell wasn't even acknowledging the problem. Then, belatedly it seems, Dell did say "they" discovered a problem (yeah, I guess so with users screaming about it).
So with the upcoming trip looming, I decided I had to give up on the Axim, too. I took advantage of a CompUSA sale on PDAs and picked up a Toshiba e755. It has built-in WiFi, and guess what? It works. It's also NOT slow (Microsoft Reader actually opens instead of just hanging like it did on the Dell) and most apps are pretty snappy. I took advantage of the Office Depot deal on the extended battery ($48.01 for a 3000MAH battery) and $7 for a travel/sync cable. $13 for the standard Toshiba leather case and I'm ready to go.
Sorry if that cranks off some of the die-hard Axim users and I believe you when you say the Axim is a great PPC. It's not (yet) with MM2003, and I just can't (and won't) wait.
And, yeah, I know the forums all say Toshiba tech support sucks. Maybe it does. Guess I'm willing to take that chance with a PPC that works out-of-the-box.
I'm out too. I ordered an Axim X5 Advanced on June 29; got it in early July. I came over from a Sony Clié N610 and want to pay what Sony was pricing the new Cliés. So I researched and researched and went for the Axim.
Boy, was I disappointed. At first I thought maybe it was just me. Applications would run fairly quickly, then inexplicably, hang. Or just run slowly, then run faster again. (Diamond Mine was particularly frustrating. It'd start out okay, then get really slow, then run okay again, then run slow...you get the idea). Same with other applications. Plus the Ambicom CF 802.11b wireless NIC wouldn't work properly most of the time (but when it did, I must admit it was pretty cool). At least I could see the potential of the Axim and MM2003.
I've gotta go out-of-town for three weeks and had hoped to have a functioning Axim with MM2003 to take with me. It quickly became apparent to me that Dell just "didn't get it". I started reading the forums here at Aximsite and Brighthand and quickly came to the conclusion that I wasn't the only one having problems with the Dell running MM2003. And Dell wasn't even acknowledging the problem. Then, belatedly it seems, Dell did say "they" discovered a problem (yeah, I guess so with users screaming about it).
So with the upcoming trip looming, I decided I had to give up on the Axim, too. I took advantage of a CompUSA sale on PDAs and picked up a Toshiba e755. It has built-in WiFi, and guess what? It works. It's also NOT slow (Microsoft Reader actually opens instead of just hanging like it did on the Dell) and most apps are pretty snappy. I took advantage of the Office Depot deal on the extended battery ($48.01 for a 3000MAH battery) and $7 for a travel/sync cable. $13 for the standard Toshiba leather case and I'm ready to go.
Sorry if that cranks off some of the die-hard Axim users and I believe you when you say the Axim is a great PPC. It's not (yet) with MM2003, and I just can't (and won't) wait.
And, yeah, I know the forums all say Toshiba tech support sucks. Maybe it does. Guess I'm willing to take that chance with a PPC that works out-of-the-box.
Originally posted by CorwinB More fees to get my Axim working ? I'm sorry, but :
- the only listed limitation on the official specs regarding SD cards is "no SDIO" (I can live with that)
- the problem lies within Dell, as many other hardware sellers issued a firmware fix when they encountered a similar problem
- Dell doesn't provide a list of "certified to work" brands of SD cards (heck, they even sell non-working SD cards to their own customers, from what I've seen in various forums)
- The brand of card I bought works well in other devices
If Dell provides me with an unreliable device not performing according to their own specs, then, as a customer, I've every right to be furious, and it's not my part of the deal to cover their mistakes.
i didn't say don't be mad at Dell, I just told you the solution to the problem.
All right, seems like I'll have to accept the fact that some people out there are simply THAT unlucky. I have had experiences with three different Palm models, countless versions of Palm OS, on at least three different operating systems, both with Desktop and PocketMirror (Chapura), and I have had ZERO problems !!!!
Thats right: ZERO.
As for the multitasking thing, I didnt mean my comments to come off as *insulting* (maybe). I just pointed the fact that the Palm OS does not have multitasking because it was NOT designed to have ;) Same thing as asking a 4x4 truck to reach 200mph top speed. It wont, because it was not designed to.
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Just to balance things, I've had two Palms and ended up giving both of them away to people I didn't care about because they were so useless and hard to use that I didn't want to give them to a friend and lose that friend. On the other hand, I've had no problems with any PocketPC (HP, Casio, now Dell) that wasn't quickly resolved. My Ax is right now connected to my laptop, which is connected to my client's network, through which I tunnel to get to my Lotus Notes mail server. Whenever my calendar changes because someone in my company calls a meeting through Notes, Notes pushes the change down to the Ax, which then pushes the change back through Activesync to Outlook on the laptop. So, all I have to do is detach the sync cables and take the Ax to any meeting I may have, do whatever I need to do (make a new appointment, for example) come back to the laptop and reconnect and all my calendars get updated automatically. I also have PocketInformant running to keep track of my day and Snoopsoft Dashboard running to provide menues for my applications the way I like them presented. And at the same time I can access the files on the Ax from the laptop through Activesync so that I can pull and push files I want/need to take with me. I'm not running it now, but I have also had the media player playing music while all that happened. Palm never could keep that straight. It had troubles just trying to keep my calendar straight.
All of which is to say, it balances out. Some folks love the PPC, others don't. Some want that 200 mph, some want the 4x4. If the Palm single processing, simple minded machine meets your needs, go for it. For me, I'll take the 200 mph, multi processing Ax, thank you.
its simple really. just as people have already
stated a Palm was not designed for multitasking,
it lays out like this:
if you want a pda get a palm
if you want a pc in your pocket get a pocket pc
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Originally posted by JakeRich .....All of which is to say, it balances out. Some folks love the PPC, others don't. Some want that 200 mph, some want the 4x4. If the Palm single processing, simple minded machine meets your needs, go for it. For me, I'll take the 200 mph, multi processing Ax, thank you.
You'll be amazed how much like a 200mph sport coupe the Tungsten "feels like" ;)
And no one said that you cannt have both: a Palm for a true PDA experience, and a powerful PPC (probably an Axim :D) for enjoying all the features and benefits of the PPC world......
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I had my Boss turned onto the Axim Advanced, but have sinced talked him into an IPaq 2210/2215 partially due to the Windows Mobile issues (and the squishy D-pad), but mostly because the 2210 appears to be superior to the Axim Advanced in every respect, save the lack of a jog-dial. Especially if you factor in his brother-in-laws student discount...
Personally, I've had no problems with my Axim aside from the faulty touch screen which Dell promptly replaced. Basically, I just want to play Chrono Trigger on my PDA with sound and 20-30 FPS. The built in bluetooth, metal exterior, and properly functioning WM2003 will just be a bonus. If my bosses 2210/2215 passes the Chrono Trigger test, I'll probably put my Axim up for adoption and upgrade to the 2210/2215.
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