X51v English/German

[noox]

I read that here are quite some Germans and Austrians.

Up to last week or the week before last the German and Austrian X51v order page on the dell homepage warned in bold red letters that only the English version is available and that the German one will follow soon.

When I ordered last week the hint was gone. I ordered. This weekend the parcel arrived. It included a german manual but an English CD and an English Axim.

Furthermore I could not switch it on after I've charged it. Only after removing the battery for 1,5 hours I could switch it on.

Now I'm not sure if I should replace it. Could there occur problems with german software if I install it on the english WM5? For instance if I want to synchronize it with a German WinXP and Office.

Is there anybody with a German X51v? Is it already available? Is it possible to replace the English WM5 with the German one without loosing warranty?

Thanks, noox

[Stoke]

Grüß Gott. :) I visited Salzburg last year, but only briefly.Osterreich gefellt mir sehr, obwohl mein Deutsch ist noch schlecht. :)

I don't have a direct answer to your question, but I believe there may be some problems between English/German software, particularly things like syncing, where the fields are likely different. Other problems should be minor (i.e. you should not have problems running german software on an english Axim). One option, and the best one in my opinion, is that Dell should be able to send you something to flash it over to German. I know people are doing it themselves with Japanese ROMs (which are much different from English than German) and so I would be surprised if it was difficult. Anyway, this is something I would have assumed Dell should be doing on their own...sending you that German ROM/CD/whatever when it is available.

[Behemoth472]

I read that here are quite some Germans and Austrians.

Up to last week or the week before last the German and Austrian X51v order page on the dell homepage warned in bold red letters that only the English version is available and that the German one will follow soon.

When I ordered last week the hint was gone. I ordered. This weekend the parcel arrived. It included a german manual but an English CD and an English Axim.

Furthermore I could not switch it on after I've charged it. Only after removing the battery for 1,5 hours I could switch it on.

Now I'm not sure if I should replace it. Could there occur problems with german software if I install it on the english WM5? For instance if I want to synchronize it with a German WinXP and Office.

Is there anybody with a German X51v? Is it already available? Is it possible to replace the English WM5 with the German one without loosing warranty?

Thanks, noox

Hello,

I have the Axim 51v for quite some time now. I did not even notic that it was not available in German.

The Axim 51v that I have is completely in German. Meaning German Windows, everything. I also did not have any problems with using the PDA out of the box.

I do syncronize it with the Office 2003 at the office (laptop) and it works just fine.

What I did notice was that some updates on the Dell Site are for English only and will not install. Since I do not have any problems working with the 51v, I was not planning on updating it anyways for now. If the updates contain any real advantages, that could be an issue, but then I would expect a language-correct update from Dell to be released.

Send me an PM or email if you have any questions - I live in Cologne so no time difference ;)

Greetings,
Andreas