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Summary: great pda
Review: The Palm Vx is a great PDA for three reasons.First, it is compatible with the wireless Omnisky service, which will allow to check time sensitive E-mail AND check to see if your flight is delayed. I am a road warrior, so this is a big plus since it can let me know if I have time to relax a little longer before waiting around at the gate for the plane to permit boarding. Second, it has a great form factor. For those of you who have never owned a PDA before, the form factor gets important over time. You may think that it isn't important, but anyone who needs a PDA needs it to be small. If this wasn't the case, try lugging around a heavy laptop and you will know what I mean. Third, and perhaps the most important reason is that this is compatible with all Palm applications. I know there are other PDAs that are not Palm but use the Palm OS, such as Handspring, and the Sony CLE, but some apps do not work unless you have a geniune Palm. For example, Dinkypad doesn't scroll in Handspring, but it does so on an original Palm. Also, when you buy a Palm, you can be sure that the upgrades to the OS that Palm releases will be compatible. The only negative thing I have to say about the Vx is that it doesn't go as fast as the Handspring Platinum or Prism, since they have the newer Motorola processor.
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Summary: Good product, but not cheap
Review: I have had the Vx now for about a month. It's the ultimate geek toy. Well designed for use. Two negatives: 1. I've already had it freeze up once and force me to hard reset it. So, get in the habit of hotsyncing everyday. 2. Shame on Palm for selling an appliance, meant to be carried around in your pocket or purse, and not providing a good protective case for it. Plan on spending another $30 to $40 to buy a case.
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Summary: I love mine....
Review: When my Palm V was stolen last May, I went right out and bought a Palm Vx to replace it! Upfront, I should address the comment of the reviewer below who complained of losing his data when the device crashed. The Palm Vx comes with software that allows you to create a copy of all your Palm data on your computer. If you lose the Palm data for some reason (or the computer data), you can restore the lost data with a couple of mouse clicks. The Palm comes with a "cradle" that is used for recharging and for linking to the computer. When my Palm was stolen, I easily restored my information into my new Palm Vx. The process of storing data takes about 15 seconds, and literally just takes a button push after you have put your Palm in the cradle. I should mention that in 18 months of extensive use, I've never "lost" my data due to software failure. I did lose it when my Palm was stolen of course, but was easily able to replace it. I find two main uses for my Palm--As a scheduler, I can enter something I want to be reminded of at a future date, and have the Palm alert me at a specified time (typically five minutes before the meeting starts, for meetings at my work). You can easily view all the items in place for each day, and there is also a weekly view. This can be done years in advance, and doesn't have to be for work stuff--I have a gasket in an underwater camera which needs to be replaced in May, 2002, and I have entered a reminder to alert me at that time! The other thing I use it for is as a way to find "forgotten" information. I make and store memos of important conversation or important information. Also, I make notes in the "address book" of key information about people--Things I've discussed with them, or areas of expertise they have. I can use the "find" feature on my Palm to locate a term. So if I want to know what conversations I've had about widgets, or who I have talked to that knows about widgets, I can enter "widget" in the find feature, and I will be shown a list of all my memos that mention widgets in the text, and anyone in my address book who I listed as being widget-related! Incidentally, I'll also get a list of any appointments in my calendar that mention widgets. If you are a busy person (and not just a business type, students, or homemakers may benefit as well) I believe you will be able to make good use of a Palm Vx. You may be equally satisfied with a Handspring, or with other makes of Palm, though. The two great advantages I see with the Palm Vx (or Palm V, if you can still find one) are that the profile of the device is very slender--It fits in my front slacks pocket without leaving a substantial bulge. Second advantage is that the internal battery provides power for a week to two weeks of use, and can be recharged by resting in the cradle. No need to buy replacement batteries, or juggle them around replacing them.
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Summary: A good carpenter never blames his tools.
Review: I just read a review by someone who had a Palm Vx and lost everything because their system "crashed." Maybe we should call a waaaambulance for this whiner. If he or she had just read the owner's manual or asked someone else who owns any PDA, they would have learned that you are supposed to synchronize the palm with your computer. If they had just followed the directions, they would have learned that ALL their data was backed up on their PC. Maybe we should cut this poor person some slack; they could be from Flori-duh. I love my Palm IIIXe, and loved the Palm Vx that I was using before I bought the IIIXe. Now I can't live without it. It sure beats the heck out of using sticky notes. I have my To Do list, all my contacts phone numbers and e-mail addresses, and my memos of notes taken at meetings. Plus, I have the calendar to schedule events and meetings, and the handy calculator. All this in one convenient place. And the beauty of it all is that you can easily edit the info on your PC, then synch up with your PDA and voila! You have all the new edited data on your PDA. Have a happy holiday season friends. Ciao.
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Summary: Got me organized
Review: I was the type to have stickies stuck all over my wallet. The Vx changed all that. The best feature (not unique to Vx) is that it synchronizes with MS Outlook (all recent versions). This means all your contacts, your in box, your to-dos in Outlook are also available on your Palm after the first synch. Info entered into your Palm also goes to Outlook. Should some tragedy occur with your palm, you only lose information entered since you last synch! PROS: small, light, rechargable battery, synchronizes with Outlook, 8M, stylish. CONS: expensive, not wireless without add-on. IIIxe is also worth considering if you are on a budget. The Vx is all I carry now.
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Summary: I wish I'd never bought a Palm Vx
Review: I was happy, then it crashed! I made the mistake of relying on the Palm Vx instead of a planner. At frist it worked great and it earned a spot as a replacement for my planner. I spent hours tapping in appointments and other professional engagements. Then the big crash came and everything was gone! About 30 hours worth of e-mails, scheduled appointments, notes, and everything else you have read that the Palm does. Gone forever. It will now take me several hours to retract my steps to figure out what I entered into the Palm. Now I am stuck trying to recall that telephone call last Monday with my boss who scheduled an appointment for sometime next month, when exactly only the Palm knew, because I relied on it. I made about 10 appointments like this last week, and they are all gone! You get the idea. These several hours could be used to make a heck of a lot more money than the Palm Vx cost. Believe me, I tried everything to salvage the info: I read the manual, call customer service, and went to a private IT consulting firm, nothing but more time and money lost. Yes, I did not hot-sync the Palm daily to backup the info, but one would hope Palm would make a reliable OS that could go a week or so before crashing and losing all the information. Bottom line, from my experience the Palm Vx is about 95% reliable, which is good, but that 5% error rate can cost you dearly. Palm Vx, neat idea, but do not rely on it to do anything important.
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Summary: The best of Palm
Review: I've been using Palm products since the PalmPilot Pro. Right now I have a PalmV, and I can say this is the best palm product ever. Great speed, lots of space for programs, contacts and notes, and a really great hardware design. Very light weighted, you can carry it to any place without even noting it's in your pocket. Everybody know the benefits of a Palm, and any model can do the same thing but if you want lots of RAM memory and a stilysh gadget...the PalmV is for you.
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Summary: Feeling very strange
Review: This is my first handheld. Now, I am feeling strange not only to Palm, but to all the reviews from the Palm experts and Palm users on the net. At the beginning, I thought I liked the device. The appearance was good to me (Everyone knows it). I could put it in my front pocket becasue of the light weight and the small size. The memory was big. But there were still something I didn't really like. The font was too small that I couldn't read the text clearly. The screen which Palm called it enhanced screen was not that clear. There was too much reflection of light when the environment was too bright, while it was impossible to read comfortabily at night outside the office. In fact, I could only use it in the office when I stood under the lamp. So, that meant I could only use the device comfortabily under normal indoor lighting. It was a big joke that the device was a handheld which was supposed to be used conveniently wherever you were. But I still felt alright with my Vx as it was my first handheld. There was much for me to explore on it. Everything was new to me. My mind have changed since I met my friend who had a IIIx. I tried his IIIx which ran OS 3.3. Surprisingly, it responded to the taps much much faster than my Vx. Actually, when I tapped on my Vx, the device likely needed some time to respond. I thought that's normal before I met my friend. But that made me worried as my friend's IIIx (without any overclocking) responded really at once. Then, I tried to explain to myself that might be the philosophy of the new OS 3.5 that Palm engineers might think that the immediate response to the tap was not important. So, I wrote a little program using Pocket C and ran it on my Vx and the IIIx simtaneously. The program was very simple, composed of some loops and made the device to print asterisks repeatly. Well, I ran it simtaneously on the 2 devices. The IIIx finished significantly before mine did. What do you guys think? Well, it was Friday night. The local technical support was off. So, I dialed long distant call to the US technical support. It didn't help at all with those voice answering machine. I tried to get an answer from the Palm support web site. There was no mentioning about this issue. Finally, I found the Assist Chat from Palm web site. I talked to the technical support representative on-line (don't want to mention the time I had been waiting). I told her my problem. She said it was abnormal that Vx was slower than IIIx and told me to take it back to the shop as I had bought it for no longer than 30 days. I was glad as I thought I got a chance to work the problem out. Then, I took the device to the shop today. They weren't sure if it is normal or abnormal. So, they told me to leave my Vx there and they would send it to Palm where the engineers would check it. I did so and leaved the shop. I went to another shop. I asked for a IIIxe and a Vx to have a look. I tried both of them. They both responded to taps as slow as mine did!! That meant my Vx was 'normal'???? I am feeling very strange. Why are the expensive Vx and the very new IIIxe slower than the old old old IIIx?? Strange! The CPUs of these 2 devices should be faster than the one in IIIx. So, why??? Strange! Is it the OS?? Both IIIxe and Vx run OS 3.5 while IIIx run OS 3.0 (my friend's IIIx run 3.3 as he upgraded). If that's true, why did Palm make a new OS which run slower than the old one? Strange! I say it's slow not only because of the response to the tap but also the Pocket C I wrote! And the strangest thing here is that: I have surfed the net alot and have read many Vx reviews from the experts and users before I bought my Vx. There was no report that Vx was slower than its ancestor nor report that OS 3.5 was slower than OS 3.3. It's real strange.
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Summary: Great hand held,like computer
Review: The palm is great . it has games daily planners movie times and much more. if you have trouble remembering things just ut it on the palm and it will keep it.
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Summary: Palm Vx vs. Handspring Visor Platinum vs. Casiopeia EM5000
Review: First off, about 3 months ago, with the start of school, i decided i need to become more organized instead of keeping everything on paper and in notebooks, etc. So i decided to look into the PDA market. After reading a bunch of reviews (thank you Amazon) and reading magazine articles, etc, i decided to go ahead and try some out at ... . The ones i was going to look at were the Palm Vx, the Handspring Visor Deluxe, and the Casiopeia EM5000. Even though the Casiopeia was great, with the applications almost exactly like Windows 98, the price swayed me away. So it was down to the Palm Vx and the Visor Deluxe. So I tried the Palm in the store, and liked it a lot. It was sleek and cool looking. The Visor Deluxe was really really neat too, but some reviews swayed me away. So i ended up purchasing the Palm. I took it home, and put all my apps on it (AVantgo, games, etc.) and tried to put my Outlook 2000 onto it. Figuring how easy the previous synchs went, i figured transferring my address book and calander onto my Palm would be a snap. But, instead, my Palm crashes, in the cradle, and it forced my Compaq Presario laptop to freeze. After reseting everything, i realized my apps that i had transferred onto the Palm had disappeared. They weren't in the Palm folder on my desktop, or in my Palm. I loaded those again, and tried to get my calander and addresses onto it. Froze and crashed again. This happened 2 more times, even after i had my friend come over, who is the master of any technology, especcially handhelds. He said he has had some similar problems with his Palm Vx, but he didn't know why it was that bad. So after replacing the unit, i tried yet again to load my apps. Same thing happened. I hadn't even been able to use it for what i wanted, for keeping dates and assignments and contacts. By this time, the Platinum was released from Handspring, and i traded the Palm Vx in as soon as i could. And i couldn't be happier. The Platinum is the best thing since sliced bread. It synchs wonderfully, looks cool, and keeps everything organized. And the Springboard expansion slot it great too. Go for a Handspring or a Windows based PDA if you are in my perdicament. But i prefer the Handspring.
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