Upgrade from 2002??

StageMgr2Stars · 06-19-07, 04:43 PM

So.... is there anyway to upgrade from PPC 2002? I saw some stuff on e-bay but I don't really trust it.

Thanks in advance.

-C-

Gigi · 06-19-07, 06:05 PM

Unfortunately, Ebay and private sales are the only ways you can get it since Dell doesn't sell it anymore. There have been quite a few reports of success using the ones sold on Ebay, but don't count on getting a legal copy there though.

StageMgr2Stars · 06-20-07, 01:16 PM

yeh, I'd just love to not get scammed.

So something like this:
eBay: Dell Axim X5 PDA Series Windows Pocket PC 2003 Upgrade (item 200120219144 end time Jun-22-07 10:10:46 PDT)

probably isn't legal??

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Originally Posted by Gigi

Unfortunately, Ebay and private sales are the only ways you can get it since Dell doesn't sell it anymore. There have been quite a few reports of success using the ones sold on Ebay, but don't count on getting a legal copy there though.

tpnet · 06-21-07, 10:48 PM

Being a newbie, what is the major differences between 2002 & 2003? Any performance differences (besides being about to use the unit with Window Vista, and I refuse to update my laptop until I am forced to do so).

Would someone please explain to me why I should (or must) upgrade to 2003?

Thanks,
NC

StageMgr2Stars · 06-22-07, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by tpnet

Being a newbie, what is the major differences between 2002 & 2003? Any performance differences (besides being about to use the unit with Window Vista, and I refuse to update my laptop until I am forced to do so).

Would someone please explain to me why I should (or must) upgrade to 2003?

Thanks,
NC

The major differance with me is that alot of programs arn't compatible with 2002. Like Birdiesync. I refuse to buy outlook but I wanted something like it and Mozilla Thunderbird and Sunbird (their calendar) are amazing. For a long time you couldn't sync to it. Now you can use birdiesync which doesnt work with 2002. So it made a huge differance because now my PDA is comptiable with the rest of my life on my laptop.

I also had alot of problems trying to get my gmail pop3 to work on my PDA. With 2003 is worked right away.

Laura · 06-22-07, 09:42 AM

also on some of the IPAQs - don't know about the axim - the SD slots were not SDIO enabled. Upgrading to PPC2003 enabled this functionality. The IPAQs involved were the 3800,3900 and 5400 series.

I have a IPAQ 5450 and still run PPC2002 on it. It has integrated WiFi so I didn't need a SD WiFi card. The only other thing I couldn't use was a SD camera - but no real loss there.

ikehiker · 06-22-07, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Laura

also on some of the IPAQs - don't know about the axim - the SD slots were not SDIO enabled. Upgrading to PPC2003 enabled this functionality. The IPAQs involved were the 3800,3900 and 5400 series.

The X5 is not sdio compatible with PPC02 or WM03.