[Az-Geocaching] RE:PDA

[skydad]

Just a couple thoughts on PDA - The iPAQ has an incredible screen for
outdoors viewing plus has way too many advantages over a Palm type machine
to recount.  It has great GPS software for cars (Travel Route) and planes
(Anywhere).   The iPAQ provides for a quick download and nothing like
listening to a few MP3's or qatching a movie short while on your search.  We
also download pics from geocaching.com right into the iPAQ so we do not have
to print our final destination.  You can keep fighting Microsoft till your
blue in the face but put Windows CE besides Palm operating system and you
have the difference of night and day.

The Lunch Club

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>    1. Re: PDA POLL!!! (Mark Heitowit)
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> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:32:39 -0700
> From: Mark Heitowit <mheitowit@usa.net>
> To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] PDA POLL!!!
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> My Sony Clie works well, most Sony's come standard with 16 MB of memory. I
> had a b/w one which broke (dropped it on a cache). Returned it under the
> extended warranty and upgraded to the color model. I have a 128 MB memory
> stick. If you store the book on the memory stick, it is very very very
very
> slow on accessing the index page. Fry's electronics has it on sale now for
> $244 I believe.  Best Buy has a better extended warranty and they price
> match.
>
> Also if you use a memory stick, you can buy a reader, I got one on Ebay
for
> $20 that reads 6 different types of memory cards, so it work with my
digital
> camera cards also. The card reader transfers the AZ Active, with logs to
the
> memory stick in under 3 seconds. The hot sync directly to the internal
> memory used to take minutes.
>
> Ask if you have any other questions.
>
> Mark, Magical Memories
>
> Team Tierra Buena wrote:
>
> >
> > > if you have a pda could you please reply with your
> > >
> > > Make & Model
> > > OS (i.e Palm, WinCE, PocketPC, etc...)
> > > Memory
> >
> > Palm m130 PalmOS 4.1, 8 Meg.
> >
> > Which is why I don't use the Snaptek cache page download anymore
> > <sniffle>. We like having the log entries, but can't get the entire
> > state on our machine. I would love to get rid of the MobiPocket reader
> > that Jeremy uses (I think there's some symbolism in software name; it
> > sounds SO much like a big whale), but for us the ability to select which
> > pages we're downloading outweighs the disadvantages.
> >
> > Now, that said... We are thinking about upgrading our PDA. There are
> > three reasons for this:
> >
> > 1. We'd like to get more memory so we CAN download the Snaptek files.
> > 2. We'd like to find a screen that has brighter display outdoors. And
> > most important:
> > 3. Palm is offering FULL REFUNDS (purchase price and tax) to m130 owners
> > who want to return them (If you own one and don't know about this, see
> > http://www.palm.com/support/m130program/).
> >
> > So, who's got a PalmOS machine that will say they have great readability
> > outdoors? And if it isn't a Palm brand, please let me know what software
> > you use for the desktop. (And no thanks, I'm not interested in WinCE
> > machines; I already get more than my share of Microsoft aggravation on
> > the desktop).
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your assistance.
> >
> > Steve
> > Team Tierra Buena
> >
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> Message: 2
> Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] PDA POLL!!!
> From: Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com>
> To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> Date: 20 Sep 2002 20:59:56 -0700
> Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>
> There is always the Zaurus... that runs Linux right out of the box, and
> runs very well, then there is the iPAQ that you can load linux onto as
> well, in fact you can put the exact same thing as the iPAQ.
>
> The advantages are that you can support any piece of hardware that linux
> itself can.  Which is a hell of a lot more that palm, CE or PocketPC can
> support.  You also can draw from a HUGE amount of software... much more
> than any handheld.... (You can run Quake on one.)
> With the iPAQ you also get a huge amount of expandibility.
>
> ...but that would just be my preference
>
> Brian Cluff
> Team Snaptek
>
> On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 20:21, Team Tierra Buena wrote:
> > So, who's got a PalmOS machine that will say they have great readability
> > outdoors? And if it isn't a Palm brand, please let me know what software
> > you use for the desktop. (And no thanks, I'm not interested in WinCE
> > machines; I already get more than my share of Microsoft aggravation on
> > the desktop).
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your assistance.
> >
> > Steve
> > Team Tierra Buena
>
>
>
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