Guest nickcornaglia Posted May 20, 2003 Report Posted May 20, 2003 I've been caught in a viscious circle with PDAs and phones and it seems that I am not really alone. I listed a history of my PDAs below. I'm constantly fluctuating on what I need. The full functionality of the PPC-Phone Editions or the simplicty of the Smartphone. Convergence of my PDA and phone is a must. No more carrying around 2 devices. I originally bought my SPV because I wanted alot of the functionality of my PPC but in a smaller size factor. And it is simpler! But that's not always good. There's software missing like mapping software, for example. I cant sync with Money. I cant even sync my notes. There is no Journal App. The task app is limited. You know all of the problems. But I need to understand that this is not a PPC with phone functionality. It is a phone with PDA functionality. How much can I really expect it to do? When people want it to be a remote control or run Word/Excel, I kind of laugh and say why don't you just get a PPC Phone Edition? But then again.... I thought my options were: 1) Get a PPC-Phone Edition again and deal with the larger size factor. Which I still may do. 2) Understand that the smartphone is limited and wait for it to grow-up, becoming more stable with more software availability. But I realize that what I really want is a smartphone with ALL of the functionality of the PPC. Better yet...I want a PPC the size of my SPV. All of the functionality and speed with none of the size that comes along with it. Someone...please make that for me and I will be happy! =============================================== HISTORY: Palm Pilot Personal Edition Basically, I loved my PalmPilot and used it in combo with various cell-phones. Simple. Phillips Nino (Original PocketPC OS) Moving forward, needing more power, the Nino was purchased. Very cool, but crashed every week! Bye Nino! Handspring Visor Expandable Palms!! Wow! Handspring Prism Color Expandable Palms! WOW! Compaq iPaq 3600 Series To Hell with Palm...PPCs rock again! Compaq iPaq 3800 Series Newer Bigger Better! AudioVox Thera I can throw my phone away....No I can't...this sucks! Verpriced piece of crap! Handspring Treo 270 Convergence! Email! The Simplicity of Palm Again! Ooops...bad reception...I miss my PPC! SonyEricsson T68m Tired of my search...I went for simple! Unfortunately too simple! Compaq iPaq 3800 w/BlueTooth and T68m Great...but I'm back to a 2 piece system again! T-Mobile PPC Phone Hooray! This is great....but look how BIG this is! ========================================== Now we're in the present: Orange SPV Small! Powerful! Syncs with Outlook where the Outlook info on the phone is actually useful. Email, Internet, programs, games, music, video.
Guest i_oWn_u Posted January 24, 2005 Report Posted January 24, 2005 you wrote all that and no one respons
Guest chucky.egg Posted January 24, 2005 Report Posted January 24, 2005 I want my phone to work, and since I ditched the SPV Ex00's it's done just that. Might sound trivial, but it's really not. I think I agree with bits of what you're saying, particularly the "I want a PPCPE in the form factor of a C500" sort of thing. For me PPCPE is too big. The iMate JAM is a distinct possibility (but then I discovered, just before I placed my order) that there's no WiFi. I think we have to face facts - there is no "perfect" device.
Guest Griffen Posted January 26, 2005 Report Posted January 26, 2005 I think, for the moment at least, that the I-mate JAM is your best bet...ok as mentioned above it hasn't got wi-fi but you can add that in with a sd card. Other than the wi-fi it seems to have the two most important things you need...very small formfactor but with all the functionalty of a PPC. It's almost as small as an SPV C500
Guest fozzie Posted January 26, 2005 Report Posted January 26, 2005 (edited) Errrm, the original post was in May 2003! Things such as mapping (GPS) software, Notes etc, are readily available now :D Edited January 26, 2005 by fozzie
Guest nickcornaglia Posted January 30, 2005 Report Posted January 30, 2005 (edited) HA! Who dug up this old post??!!! Anyway, if you look at my sig, I'm on my 7th Smartphone since then (had the Mio twice). And I also had a Samsung i700 PPCPE somewhere in there as well. I must say that my prediction from two years ago is coming true and I hope to soon take advantage of it. PPCPEs have come down in size in a BIG way and when I can get one like the JAM or ETEN in the US running the 850MHz band...I'll probably move in that direction! :D Edited January 30, 2005 by nickcornaglia
Guest shadamehr Posted February 3, 2005 Report Posted February 3, 2005 I'm unwittingly coming to realise, after all this time, that with the C500 I have finally found my 'almost' ideal phone. I say this because for the first period in my entire mobile life, there is not another phone out there just now that I fell I desperately need to upgrade to (though the Jam has me interested). But why I say 'almost' is because even now, after all this time, and mentioning it loads on here when the C500 first came out, I ABSOLUTELY miss a feature Nokias had - simple, easy, no hassle or messing, two way blue tooth note exchange. I used to use this feature religously to send notes to my partner, while i was sitting upstairs etc. Nowadays, it's so bloody faffy on the C500, that I just send a chargeable text instead, and that fact alone really sums it all up. So, if ever there was a way to simply, and QUICKLY send bluetooth text notes back and forth, this would be a godsend to me, and make my C500 the perfect phone.
Guest Damian_demon Posted February 4, 2005 Report Posted February 4, 2005 Dose it count if you kill the phone? :?: , If so 9 SPV's (so very old) classics and 3 SPV E200's, 2 of which are spread around Manchester dam drinkers grip! :oops: , but this photo might so what sort of phones MoDaCo user's develop when put together
Guest Damian_demon Posted February 4, 2005 Report Posted February 4, 2005 Dose it count if you kill the phone? :?: , If so 9 SPV's (so very old) classics and 3 SPV E200's, 2 of which are spread around Manchester dam drinkers grip! :oops: , but this photo might so what sort of phones MoDaCo user's develop when put together, This was taken at the Brum meet, Great day, Cheers to MoDaCo for arrangeing it.
Guest dshaugney Posted February 6, 2005 Report Posted February 6, 2005 (edited) I find that owning a C500 and a Tablet PC (In my case the HP TC1100) covers all the needs I currently have and may want in a few years...It even replaced my laptop and cut out any need for a PPC. Even if this is an old topic. :lol: Edited February 6, 2005 by dshaugney
Guest Kyubi Posted February 15, 2005 Report Posted February 15, 2005 Is that an MPx300 in that photo? Whats your review on that one compared to the rest, I'm thinking of getting one someday, to replace my MPx200, gonna give the 200 to my sis.
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted February 15, 2005 Report Posted February 15, 2005 Its an MPx, not an MPx300. Also its not worth mentioning hardware-wise imho. Get yourself a JAM/MDA Compact instead, much cooler!
Guest Kyubi Posted February 16, 2005 Report Posted February 16, 2005 I was just wondering what the stats were and it's basic size compared to the MPX200, the reason I was interested is cause it's clamshell design and simple carryalong, and that it supposibly uses sdio instead of minisd
Guest Pondrew Posted February 16, 2005 Report Posted February 16, 2005 The MPX? Was about to say it's big, slow, and with far too little memory... then I looked at the picture and realised it doesn't look any bigger then the XDA2. Well... 2 out of 3 right 8)
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