Please Vote "Dell DON'T KILL THE AXIM PDA's platform"

Hi Guys & Girls

I posted a thread on Dells Ideal Storm website that needs your attention / votes.

If your not familiar with this new website it's for direct communication to Dell on popular USER sponsored needs and wants for Dell products etc. So here's were people may make the difference, if we get enough votes you never know, someone at Dell may listen.

Here's my original thread from the site & the link :-
http://www.dellideastorm.com/article..._PDAs_platform

DON'T KILL THE AXIM PDA's platform

50 points posted to by optical10 Feb 23 Save Report abuse.

The world leading x51v WM5 device is only now being bettered by HTC's future "Advantage” PDA / Smartphone matching the Axim 624 MHz power etc 2 years after the party started by Dell's forward thinking product!

Yes it may need to have GPS, EDGE, 3G etc to survive as a Smartphone in this mobile obsessed times but it can be done & the current Axim users will appreciate your efforts into the WM6 platform by buying your products if you reward their loyalty.

Obviously this may be previous if you’re not killing the Axim but most forums think you are so hence this post.

Ron Garriques ex - Motorola were counting on you.Now you've read it please go to the thread & vote, ever vote counts as other topics have appeared in blogs like Engadget & Gizmodo.

Thanks

I too have a similar thread on Idea Storm. I hope they listen.

It is better to try and fail, than to never have tried. But...I hope that they change their mind about this topic.

[Frenchy]

You guys should ask to have your threads merged. It will give more weight than several thread asking for the same thing.

André, do you know how that could be done?

I wouldn't mind that happening too, but it is over my head. I use computers, I am not 100% Geek. I agree that it is getting out of hand with the Linux posts. I am definitely not against Linux, but there are WAY TOO MANY posts about Linux OS issues.

If you have any "ideas" on how to have our threads (plus others who have similar threads) merged, I would be interested in hearing (seeing) them.

All the input on this would be great.

[ArthurS]

Why do you care so much? There are so many great devices out there nowadays, and they're only getting better. Why the loyalty to Dell, who haven't exactly excelled in customer support for us (think x50 WM5).

The x50/x51 wasn't all that innovative or forward-thinking. It had better specifications than its predecessors, but since the hardware was off-the-shelf Intel that wasn't really Dell's 'innovation'. The hx4700 was arguably a better PDA, and there was a similarly-specced model from Fujitsu Siemens.

[pawpals]

Why do you care so much? There are so many great devices out there nowadays, and they're only getting better.

Not if you don't want a converged device. And want a vga screen.

[DotanCohen]

I also question the loyalty to Dell, the only hardware manufacturer (ok, distributor) who will not release hardware specs to the good folks at handhelds.org. I love my x50v, but it's the last Dell I'll ever buy until Dell starts helping the community like every other PDA maker.

Dotan Cohen

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[radimus]

The issue isn't that a manufacturer isn't willing to create a converged device with a VGA screen (and the axim's was beautiful), but the power consumption that it uses.

Quite frankly a converged device is still primarily a phone and the battery must last for a day of typical use. Throw in 3g data, wifi, BT, and a vga screen and you are looking at 2-3 hours at best.

Let the battery technology advance to the point of a slimline battery that provides 5500mah and we will have pda phones with vga screens... and commercial IR, and 5m pixel cameras, and ...

I too have a similar thread on Idea Storm. I hope they listen.

It is better to try and fail, than to never have tried. But...I hope that they change their mind about this topic.

.....vote on your post in Idea Storm & you can vote on mine, we can't have to many votes or thread to wake Dell up.

Thanks optical10

Why do you care so much? There are so many great devices out there nowadays, and they're only getting better. Why the loyalty to Dell, who haven't exactly excelled in customer support for us (think x50 WM5).

The x50/x51 wasn't all that innovative or forward-thinking. It had better specifications than its predecessors, but since the hardware was off-the-shelf Intel that wasn't really Dell's 'innovation'. The hx4700 was arguably a better PDA, and there was a similarly-specced model from Fujitsu Siemens.

Hi ArthurS, we all learn new this everyday so as a [presumably] hx4700 owner can you tell use why your on a Axim site & why your [hx4700] better than the x51v?

I bought the Axim from Dell because at the time [as you said] it had the best specs on the market, period. I'm not loyal to Dell or any other Manu, it’s just that it has proved so invaluable over the 18 months I've used it & I would like to see WM6 features working on it.

If your hx4700 or Fujitsu Siemens models can allow me to make data & voice calls [pay-as-go] via a Audiovox 8000 CF card, carry ALL my music / media library [49,000 plus tracks] plus Windows data via a CF to USB interface to a portable 2.5” 149GB HD battery Caddy, GPS navigate via any future or current GPS Bluetooth module I choose [SatIII] not the one hardwired into your hx4700.

I'm sure I could go on but my point is as it stands the Axim x51v isn't being stretched in any way by the current software [even 3D games – Gotham project Racer to come] or hardware processor intensive apps at thee moment or can't be faulted for it's diverse hardware modular usages [some I haven't even covered like barcode scanners, DAB DTV SD TV cards & my old bugbear Digicam cards – which the convergent Smartphone’s market have discouraged the add-on Manu’s to abandon on the WM5 OS]. Its flexibility is not unique but its power is so whiles it’s not being stretch I would love Dell to support it a while longer.

Maybe the developers can port some HTC WM6 features over to it, that not my field so that might be wishful thinking but either way it runs to sweet with & without my hardware & software add-ons to be put in moth balls yet!

Thanks optical10

I'll vote. Why not? Thanks for the heads up.