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Summary: so so cool except for one thing the color
Review: the M 505 is awsome!! I have one and it is fast you dont have to wait for it to to load or anything like that. i take it to school every day to write notes in and do my home work.it has lots of memory and it has no problem storing all my tons of information and games. the one problem that kept me from giving it 5 stars was that the color is not really bright like other palms pilots. the screen is colorful i mean this palm has 65,000 colors but they arent that bright. Even when you turn on the light it gets brighter but it drains the battery fast. despite the not very bright color on the screen I highly suggest buying this palm!! i love it!!
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Summary: A great tool for Palm lovers.
Review: I boought the M505 because of the color and the expansion capabilities. The color is not overwhelming, but the expansion capabilities are awesome. I use the M505 all day every day. The back lighting is superb. I love being able to download books from the internet. I'm a little disappointed that the travel charger hasn't shipped yet, though I've had the M505 since it was new on the market. Unlike some other reviewers, I've had only good service from the USB hot sync cradle. In fact, I've had great service from the whole unit. In my opinion it's fabulous, and I recommend the M505 to anyone who can use it's impressibe capabilities.
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Summary: WOW
Review: I've been using my Franklin/Covey planner for years, love it but have recently found that the book was becoming cumbersome. In an attempt to downsize my life and declutter, I asked for a Palm Handheld for my birthday. What a wonderful difference! I've now reduced from my purse and briefcase to a small bag and tote! My shoulder feels better, I don't have the juggling of purse and briefcase and my arthritic fingers are very happy! (Guess I'm getting old). I can now attend meetings with just a note pad and my Palm 505. I love the ease of use. It took minutes to learn and I have a great time with the games. I have installed the program on both my home and work systems so that I can Hot Sync from both to avoid any forgotten details that need to be addressed. What a time saver! Would highly recommend to anyone looking at one.
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Summary: Great unit, but look at the real thing before you buy
Review: I love the unit for the functions, it really helps keep my business information organized. The display was a disappointment as was stated in the review. What bothers me the most is how the unit is being marketed. The pictures of the unit show a bright white display with bright vivid colors that makes it look like it has the same quality display as a TV or computer screen. Other brands look better but I still think this is a better unit, and I prefer the Palm operating system. If I had looked at it in a store first, I may have purchased a cheaper monochrome model. I hope they improve the display in future models. Thanks to Amazon for having this forum available to help consumers!!
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Summary: palm 505, pros, and potential problems
Review: My brother and I both bought the Palm 505. And while both of use were please with the small size and ease of use of the PDA, my brother's unit suddenly failed to sync. He got a replacement unit, which worked fine for a couple weeks, but that, too, also stopped syncing. When be tried to contact Palm for a solution, that's when he experienced their TERRIBLE customer service. First he consulted with a Palm technician on-line & was basically told to call their telephone service number. When he called the number he was told that the call itself would cost... He argued that their own technician told him to call. So the charge was waived. But all the tech on the phone told him was that Palm was aware of this problem and had no current solution except to tell people to go out and buy a serial cradle (it comes with a USB cradle). My own unit has worked fine so far. But when I checked out some bulletin boards, it turned it that other people had experienced the same sudden failure of their USB cradle. So keep this problem about the USB cradle in mind when considering your options. Otherwise, the PDA itself works fine.
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Summary: Great service and a great product
Review: I received my palm 505 within 7 business days after purchase. I must admit that buying something as pricey as a handheld through the internet was stressful. I appreciate the great service that the Amazon.com folks provided. My palm 505 is used, but it looks new. The packaging looked untouched, but most important it performs without error.
The palm is perfect for me as a college student. I use it primarly to take notes in class (w/M500 keyboard). The palm gives me the word processing ability I need without the cost of a laptop.
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Summary: Ehh...
Review: I bought two M505 for my staff as soon as they came out earlier this year. I have mixed feelings for this product. As you may know, the M505 comes with a USB cradle. About 2 weeks after I bought my Palms, one of them stop Syncing. After a while with technical support, they sent me a whole new unit. Again after about 3 weeks, it again stopped syncing. Again, I called tech support and again they sent me a new one. Wouldn't you know that it stopped again! This time, instead of reexplaining myself with Palm support for the third time, I bought a serial cradle. I haven't had problems since. A couple of months later a friend won a Palm M505. It sycronized once, and can you guess.... it stopped working. This time I knew. My palm experiences have left me a little shaken. If you have to buy a Palm M505, be ready to buy a serial cradle.
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Summary: M505 Outstanding handheld for a professional Mom
Review: I recently bought a Palm M505 after my first Palm (b&w) was stolen. I have to say, I love it. It's lightweight, easy to read, powerful, has tons of storage, and with the latest operating system, really, really user-friendly. I love the notepad feature -- it's great for lists or taking a quick note (by handwriting instead of typing or using graffiti). In combination with Microsoft Outlook on my home computer, I am set up with reminder alarms, back-up data, and great organization. I read some negative reviews before I bought this product, and I really don't understand where they came from. I find the screen very easy to view, use the backlight feature about 25% of the time, and the buttons are well-designed for the user. I know however that not all handhelds are right for everyone.
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Summary: Get the Compaq iPAQ
Review: I sold my Palm Vx and purchased the Palm 505 instead of the Compaq iPAQ because I loved my Palm Vx. Put simply the Palm 505 is a huge disappointment. Compared to the technology out there, the PDA is very limited. You can only connect to the interent via certain cell phones. You cannot dial up using a normal telephone line. And most importantly you cannot use a T1 line or any ethernet connection to connect to the Interet. You still have to drag around your laptop to connect to the Internet if you want to use a high speed connection.
I was very disappointed since the iPAQ offers these options. When I purchased the 505 I thought they would later roll out the modem and ethernet connect. But I was mistaken, Palm technology is not up to par. The improvements Palm made is having a color screen (which is hard to see), an expansion slot (which you probably don't need), the alarm, clock, and note pad (the best feature of the 505). However, this device is not worth the money. And certainly not worth giving up your Vx.
Accessories that were available for the Vx, such as GPS system, is not available for the 505. The technical difficulties I have had with the 505 is ridiculous. I have tried to work with Palm to no avail to hotsync my 505 via infrared. My e-mail still will not sync correctly, and Palm support does not help.
For me the device is actually worse than the Vx because of the technical problems.
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Summary: My Palm m505 expierence
Review: Bright I used to have a Windows CE device, the Nokia 9110 palmtop/mobile phone and still have a Palm IIIc. I read a lot of bad things about the M505 color display. After using it very often in the last couple of weeks (car travel, planes, office, etc.) I can't believe that people say the display is a problem. This is far better then my PIIIc. For sure the contrast on the display are less impressive (you getting used to it) but it works in all light conditions. I only use the backlight in about 10% of the time. Sometimes you have to swivel the Palm screen towards a light source to read the display correctly without the backlight (it saves battery).. Outside, this display is incredible clear, with my PIIIc I always had to increase the intensity of the screen to see something.
It is also much faster then the PIIIc, this M505 is really fast. The software included with it is really cool, easy to use Excel and Word document reader. Ebook, Photosuite software to name a few. Because of the negative commands on this site on the M505 I almost bought a M500. Lucky I didn't do because I heard now that the M500 is slower (It has the same processor but the screen updates slower). Compared to the PIIIc, I would say the M505 is: - Smaller with less weight. (it fits in my wallet).
- Faster.
- More software.
- Integrated SD slot is really useful, I never thought it would be (8Mbyte RAM with a few family pictures is could becoming a problem).
- Better display ( better in both very dark and bright light situations). Even in this small size, the battery get me running for longer then 10 hours, thanks to Color LCD technology Palm is using (simular to the PIIIc).
- Now I can write on my palm in complete darkness also because now my Silkscreen lights up.
- This unit is ready for the bluetooth wireless technology, which will be available from Palm at the end of the year.
- Faster USB hotsync transfer. (only important for Aventgo website syncing I found).
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