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Summary: If I could marry an electronic device we would be engaged!
Review: I like it a lot. The color is a vast improvement from the black and white m500. The display could use a little refinement, but it is well worth the extra money to buy the color version. Plus it has twice the available memory as the m500. Color games are alot better than black and white. Snooch to the nooch!
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Summary: The color display helps, but it kills the battery
Review: The largest problem facing the Palm OS world is satisfying the users who demand color AND room for apps AND long battery life AND simplicity. The 515 does a pretty good job of balancing these issues and produces a serviceable handheld, but it still falls short for power users.The 515's color display is a big jump compared to the 505, but only having 160 x 160 pixels really limits the device. I'm getting older and Palm's shrinking displays are getting tougher to deal with. The larger display on the Pocket PCs are much easier to deal with. However, this (and the battery life) is the only real gripe I have with the 515. With 16mb of RAM on board, it has plently of room for apps and data, so much so that I have never really needed to use the SD expansion. It runs fast, and does everything one would want a Palm to do. The Palm OS is still far superior to Pocket PC for contact management, todo lists and appointments but users who are heavily reliant upon Outlook may want to look at the cheaper Pocket PC models (Toshiba especially) as they are still a better fit for Outlook users at almost the same price. Finally, it seems to me that the battery just doesn't last as long in the 515 as it did in the 505, the price one pays for being able to read the screen. This is only a minor issue but it can be annoying at times.
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Summary: M515 is the freaking bomb.
Review: This is the best palm device I have ever owned. I did have to return my original unit because it was defective, but it was replaced much faster than was expected. I was very pleased with the entire transaction, and I would recommend this Palm device to anyone. Definitely a solid 5 stars!
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Summary: Had It Up To My Palms
Review: Consumers start taking note of the negative reviews on Palm!! I bought a brand new Palm from Office Max. This was my very first Handheld purchase and I went to Palm because it was the innovator, creator, and established name on the market. I wanted a company that was reliable. With so many problems in my life I wanted a tool to help me keep track,organize, and be reliable. I got it home and immediately started to charge it. The battery icon showed a thunderbolt in it and the light was green. 2, 4, then 24 hours later the icon and the light were the same. I figured the icon must turn red or something when it needs charging, after all there is no standardization on icons. I proceeded to initialize it and hot sync all required programs, checking to see if some of the features work on each download. I never took it out of the cradle since I was going to download more programs. Finally all downloaded and I thought I was ready to go. I took it out of the cradle and all disappeared. I thought I'd done something wrong, reread the sparse beginning instructions and redid everything. Out of the cradle, nothing. Called support, they had me reset, soft and start all over again. No luck!! I went to the store and they could not help me until the manager came in and nobody knew when that was. I needed this to study for my tests and had already wasted 2 days on this, so I called Palm tech support confident that they would be able to send me a replacement in plenty of time. They made me go all through the procedure AGAIN, then told me to take it back to the store. Finally they agreed to send me another REFURBISHED one, which they assured me would come in plenty of time to so I could study off of it. No dice!! It arrived a week later, the day of the test. I should have refused delivery but I was not thinking clearly. Now I am stuck with a used PDA for the price of a new one. What a ripoff! If I had wanted a used one I could have gotten it here for a lot less.
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Summary: Great PDA, ho-hum Color
Review: The Palm 515 is a great PDA, sleek, nice to hold and the Palm OS is so much better than Windows... however, the brightness, clarity and contrast of the screen is still not at its optimum. Although it is much better that the 505, it's nothing compared to the Palm 3C. Can't understand why they can't have the brightness and the brilliance of the 3C!
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Summary: Not a bad PDA, but for the price it should be much more
Review: The Palm m515 is everything the m505 should have been... And should have been a year ago. Now, however, in light of other, more advanced PDA's by competing companies (I think you can name at least two), the m515 just seems outdated and too little, too late. Let's start with the screen. It certainly is not high res and certainly holds nothing on Sony's models. The vertical black grids are very annoying after continuous usage, something that you wouldnt have on a Sony 615 or NR70, or even Palm's lower end color model, the m130. The screen isnt bad at displaying colors, in fact, it has very good color definition. But that is cancelled out by the blocky pixels and gridlines that you should not have on an [expensive]PDA. Im still wondering why Palm chose only three viewing abilities for it's backlight (none, low, and high) versus a regular bar that lets you control viewability. Low seems a little too low, and high, although its very bright, wears down the batteries fast. The 'none' setting is all but worthless unless you are outside using it, which I never am. Also, another question mark is the lack of a simple jog dial. I have a low-end Sony S320 (since discontinued) that has a jog dial and it is wonderful. All Sony's have this but for some reason, the top of the line Palm does not. It is simply a mystery, especially when other companies such as Handspring include jog dials on some of their new models. On the plus side, this PDA looks real nice and professional. If it only had a jog dial the form would be the best. Its not a very good PDA, especially for the price, and it should have been what the m505 wasnt. But since its Palm, it will sell, even though it is inferior compared with all Sony models and a couple Handspring (Treo series). Not bad, but save your money until the fall when OS5 handhelds are out, or get a Clie now because it has most of the features OS5 will have only without the ARM processor.
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Summary: Happier with my 515
Review: My first PDA was a Palm IIIC, which had an amazingly bright color screen. After I had owned it only 4 months, they came out with the M505. Passed the IIIC to my husband, so I could justify the [price] for the M505. Expansion slot and other features were a great boost to what I'd had, but the screen brightness was so bad that I contacted Palm to complain and see if there was a fix. Was basically told "too bad, we haven't had any other complaints". Not even a year later, they released the M515. After seeing it in the store, I must have sounded very envious because my husband just bought me one. Wow, what an improvement! Although it's still not quite as bright as the IIIC, it's a vast improvement over the M505. Double the memory and the brightness/sharpness I wanted. Battery life is no worse than what I had, and I don't notice any size difference. I'm very pleased, especially since I was able to sell my M505 for enough to offset the cost of the 515. All in all, the 515 is definitely worth it.
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Summary: M515 is great!!
Review: I recently purchased the m515 to replace my m505 that was stolen. The 515 is greatly improved in three areas: battery life, memory, and display brightness. Memory is doubled from 8MB to 16MB. The color display is much brighter and very easy to read. The 515 also offers low and high settings for the display, something that was missing on the 505. But the best improvement has been in battery life. My 505 battery life was horrible, but my 515 can go several days without needing a charge. However, these improvements come at a price. The 515 is slightly thicker than the 505, not too much, but noticeable. The 515 is a great little handheld, and worthy of the extra price over the 505.
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Summary: Short lived
Review: Exactly 14 days after my m515 was delivered, it died. It just did not turn on, despite my efforts to soft and hard reset it. When I called the Palm Tech support phone number and described the problem, they simply told me to return it to Amazon.com since problems this early are a very bad sign. ...
This was a very bad experience.
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Summary: Fast, simple, reliable but far from powerful...
Review: Well, first of all, I am a technology addicted person. I am migrating from the Pocket PC world to this Palm world due to corporate standard. This Palm m515 is light, has a cool design and has many nice applications, it must be said. But what I don't like is the lack of options for production. With my Pocket PC I could use PCMCIA cards and share my notebook's modem; I could have a video card and use my "PowerPoint" on a presentation, I could use my GPRS card and have the iPaq working as a cellphone, as a browser and so on... The integration with Windows is nice, nothing to complain. The applications that come with this m515 is nice, especially for the Documents to Go. I do encourage people to spend some more bucks (I guess [price]) and have the upgrade deal for the pro, since you can then download PDF files and edit your PowerPoint presentations.
There is a company (MARGI.com) that is about to release an SD card that will allow users to have a VGA projector connected to this m515 (cool!). Unfortunately I was told by Palm support that only the Black&White-screened m705 will have wireless internet capability; there is no planned SD card for the Palm m515 (so far!). The only wireless available is the Bluetooth card that allows you to use your bluetooth compatible cellphone as a gateway (As you see, far from the Pocket PC seamless technology). I hope I don't have to rent a U-Haul trailler to carry on all my bulky add-ons. :-) I do encourage people to also spend some more bucks and get the extended warranty from Palm. They cover broken LCDs!!!!! And it is about 10% of the device's street price. So, making a long story short:
Just buy this device if you only use a PDA for gaming, AvantGo offline pages (such as stock, news etc.) on a traffic jam or at the airport, quick review of a presentation on an airplane (with no chance to use your PDA for performing the presentation), quick review of a spreadsheet and e-mail revision between a meeting and the other. If you really want a PDA to substitute your notebook most of the time, disregard the price difference and get a Pocket PC. Otherwise you will just get upset!
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