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Summary: HORRIBLE QUALITY
Review: My mother gave me a Palm M105 for my birthday in December 2001, and I soon fell in love with it, and carried it everywhere. Within 30 days it began to just totally shut down, and refuse to turn on. I could hard reset, hot sync, and get another day out of it, and then it would die again. I returned it and replaced it with an M100. It lasted 22 days, and is now doing the same thing. Returned it yesterday, and am researching for a different brand. STAY AWAY FROM PALM.
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Summary: You may outgrow it.
Review: I got one of these for Christmas a year ago, my first Palm. A year later I've turned into a power user of sorts, and the 2mb memory is just too small. Nonetheless, if you think you may just use it for scheduling, phone numbers, memos, it is really an amazing little device for the money.
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Summary: does everything I need it to and more
Review: How on earth did I manage to live my life before this Christmas when Palm m100 entered my life? I've always been one of those folks who shops for hours in December for the perfect organizer, then by February has either given up on it or lost it. Those small enough for the pocket were too small for all my info and those big enough for my data were too big to take with me everywhere. The Palm m100 solved that problem. It fits easily in my pocket, I've got all my calendar appointments in it, set up a rehearsal schedule for my handbell choir thru November, I even have notes on every rollercoaster I've ridden (more than 300!) Add to this several games, a musical metronome, and other programs, and I still have half the memory left. I use my m100 for EVERYTHING now. Even the dreaded Graffiti handwriting input system was a snap to learn. After just an hour or so of practice, I'm writing at 18-20wpm... and unlike my sloppy handwriting, when I write into the Palm, the type is clear. At some point in the future, I may upgrade to a model with more memory, but this one seems to be holding its own for now... and believe me, I put it through its paces!
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Summary: Palm m100
Review: This was my first experience with a handheld device. Myself, I am quite a computer enthusiast, and I decided this would be a excellent purchase so I could at least record the things I'd procrastinate. Turns out it was a great purchase. The Palm m100 meets all my needs and has very few downsides for a user like myself. The 2mb memory is plenty for my 15 or so 2-page school notes, all the included applications, a few games, a few math and science programs, still with a good 25% of the memory left. The screen, albeit small, is sharp, and has a very excellent included backlight for use in the dark. It is stylish; faceplates, expensive, are also very attractive, as is the contoured flipcover. The graffiti area and shortcut keys are good too, but I reccomend recalibrating the screen every week or so, for some reason it likes to disalign itself.
All in all, a great purchase for the money, and exactly what I need for keeping organized and taking some notes now and then, as well as few other miscellaneous tidbits.
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Summary: The Palm m100 Handheld
Review: I must tell you, I was not a big fan of Palm at first. But I happened to get a gift certificate to Amazon, so I spent it on my Palm, not buying it for any particular purpose. When I got it, I realized how much can be done on such a small thing. My life is completely organized on that thing. I write down all my homework assignments (I am a student), my class notes, important events, and I even get CNN, the Sporting News and much more using the HotSync. The Palm itself is well made and very durable, and has many accesories that are worth getting. I myself got the slim leather carrying case and the keyboard, which I use to great extent. I would advise every student and people who love to get things well layed out and organized to get one.
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Summary: Cheap piece of ...
Review: I started out with a Palm IIIx, which I had for several years. Unfortunately, I dropped it too many times (almost every day, to be honest--almost ran it over with my car once) and the screen got dinged and the display didn't work as well as it used to. I saw the cheap prices on the M100s and thought I would change over to a new M100. I wish I hadn't. Even with the dinged screen, the IIIx was much better. I've had the M100 for 3 months. In the past month alone, I've had to rebuild all the databases twice, because they have somehow mysteriously wiped themselves out (and I didn't even drop it). My IIIx never lost its memory, even with all the abuse I heaped on it. The M100 cover falls off all the time, and is difficult to replace (not like the IIIx, whose cover snaps right back on). I would switch back to my IIIx, but I rashly already gave my III hotsync cradle away (the M100 doesn't use a cradle). The IIIx is a workhorse; the M100 is a delicate flower that must be coddled. And even when you coddle it, it still loses its memory. That said, I still gave it 3 stars because it's a Palm, and when it's working, does all the great things you have come to expect from a Palm. And I love the cover clock viewer. Even if I have to keep resetting the time. Palm makes terrific handhelds, but in my opinion this is not one of their higher-quality products. If you are going to rely on your Palm to remember your day-to-day obligations (because you can't), pay a little more money and get one of their sturdier machines. The M100's memory is not much better than mine! (and that's just scary).
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Summary: This orginizer is too cool!
Review: I have wanted an electronic orginiser for as long as I can remember. When I pulled my Palm out from under the christmas tree, it exceded my imagination to how cool it might be. With features like notepad, to jot down notes, (like where your car is in the one hundred acre parking lot!) and date book to record exat times of any events down to the five minute margine it is the best orginizer I have ever seen. I use it all the time, and I never worry that anyone elst might read what I hav ewritten, since the security system allows the locking of private files, or the whole Palm! Weather you are an extremely unorginixed person, like myself, or plan your every day down to the minute, you'lllove the Palm m100 handheld!
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Summary: Rating the Palm Pilot Product Range of "Hand Helds"
Review: The Palm Pilot hand held unit is promoted by Snap On Tools Corp as part of a data storage & retrieval system for vehicle repair techies & shop owners.I was initially impressed by the "appliance" for its capabilities etc for such a small unit.After several weeks of use however, the hand held went into a sleep mode and won't respond.The unit was returned to the manufacturers/suppliers several months ago with no resolution in sight.
I would not be inclined to purchase another Palm Pilot based upon product support to date.
If the supplied flash cards were capable of being used in another competitors product I would go ahead and try it, but I am almost forced to purchase another Palm Pilot brand so that I can use the Snap On data which I purchased for my business.
Normally I would give this a four star rating,but product support is so important for any product no matter if it is disposable electronics or automobiles.Consequently I am inclined to be kind and give it two stars with the benefit of doubt
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Summary: A trial PDA . . . Spend more money on a better one
Review: I bought my handheld about a year ago. It was a trial run to see if I would like the idea. I did! But . . . after just 8 months of owning it, I could not tap the screen. I had to email the company to find out how to fix it. Their solution was to do a soft reset once a week.
Two months later I decided I wanted to enter data via the PC and print a calendar for my husband. The connection was bad everytime, it was the software. The software was in working order when I first bought it. For my time and effort it was not worth it. I am planning on buying another handheld but will invest more money and do a bit more research...
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Summary: A Great Place To Start
Review: At the date of this review I have owned my Palm M100 for just over a year. I am now so tied to it I'd rather lose my wallett and credit cards then my PDA. I never thought I'd say that. While it doesn't have the horsepower some of the newer (and quite a bit more expensive, I might add) PDA's, it has enough to make it both useful and practical. On my PDA I have well over 500 Address Book entries, 300 Date Book entries (meetings, trial dates, birthdays, my anniversary, etc.) as well as a couple of games, my passwords and AvantGo, which allows me to keep up on news stories, sports scores, as well as downloading a new short story to my palm every day. My Palm is my bible. I'd be lost without it. I'm now looking at updgrading to a bigger and better PDA, but I'm very glad that I started with the M100. If you have little or no experience with PDA's, you can't go wrong with this one.
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