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Summary: good but could be better
Review: Plus Points:-Price now reasonable, shirt pocket size if used without Hard Case or only with supplied flap,palm OS quick & simple,surfeit of 3rd party apps a lot of which are free,looks great,good conversation topic! Negatives:- When used with Hard case, its almost as big as a Palm 111, I am not a power user but still find the 2 Mb insufficient,must get flash pro add $30 for approx 800k!, Included software is very basic,simple issues like not being able to set a home time for Middle East, Indian Subcontinent and Singapore, mayonly be a small annoyance to most people but sends a wrong message about 3 Com being a real worldwide company. Come on 3 Com you cannot even set Singapore time, believe its a technical support hub!,If MSFT had this in one of its products the sky would have fallen in with cries of outrage, Expandability is limited in relation to 111X and Visors.Technical support is deplorable. Seductive product based on form factor and new lower price but check out all options especialy if expandability is important
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Summary: Goodbye Day Planner
Review: I finally upgraded to a Palm V from the Palm Professional, and what a great decision it was. This lightweight PDA has a better display, and I use it exclusively for all my planning, addresses, to-do list, memos, email, etc! Great for a working mom on the go like me. I love being able to divide my various activities and lists by personal, business, client, etc. And beaming appointments and such to my husband's Palm V is an added plus, so that we're always "in sync". Hot Syncing always creates a permanent record similar to a day planner, but without all the paper! The only negative is the case it comes with, so I ordered the leather case which is small enough to fit in a purse or pocket. Hubby uses the hard case, which fits easily in his suit pocket. A great planning tool!
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Summary: Shines like a star, acts like a stuntman...
Review: I own a Palm V for more than 6 months and watched my initial expectations gradually fade away. Not that this shiny gadget is a failure, but people (and maybe the marketers [!]) pushed it up to a "carry-your-life-in-your-pocket" position. Despite the -reasonable- limitations of its size, Palm V does more than a good job. Its own Graffiti pen-based input interface is acceptable and fast, the operating sytem easy to use and failure-proof. You can find loads of software, most for free, at your convenience on the web, while the ones that already come with the unit would let you carry out any daily organizing and recording task. With the HotSynch craddle, charging and synchronizing , -even with Microsoft Outlook,- are almost effortless. When charged the unit almost keep working forever (I could not test it to exhaustion yet!). The infrared support adds to all that. Now about my expectations fading away... Play with a color, Windows CE based palmtop, and the idea to carry a heavier and short-breathed box in your pocket would probably seem to be an idea. I carried my Palm V with me during long business trips, playing around on spreadsheets and trying to read books I had downloaded. After at most 20 minutes of staring at that dull green and dark olive screen, I shut it off and never touched it for at least another day. Games? Remember your Nintendo days where they had those Gameboys? Don't expect any better. And sound (not beeps) is yet to come in future episodes! If Palm is intended for packing your organizer data in and taking it out on the road, than it does it. And with the software you would find, it even would act like a remote control or a full-featured scientific calculator. I actually did not ever bother with sending e-mail using it, and would not since I would have to connect it to a wall outlet around which I could have found a connected desktop or a laptop 99% of the times! And, services for Palm VII are not yet available in Istanbul. But having my Palm V charged with a map and a guide at TeleComm '99 in Geneva was quite a good surprise: Having a Palm means to be the part of an evergrowing community, for which services and facilities also grow. And so it goes on... Here is the deal... If you look for a marvel a quarter the size of your laptop to replace it, than wait for another season or you'd better go for a slightly more expensive Windows CE color device like one from the Cassiopea C-100 series. However, in that latter case you'd end up charging your palmtop at every stop you would find and wait for the files to pop-up forever! If you look for a sturdy and stylish organizer with easy loading and interface, a notepad at your fingertips witout the hassle of pen and paper and with thousands of pages of capacity, that Palm V is what you are looking for (if you are willing to pay all that money for only that). Well it can do more than that, but that would be like a 3-year-old boy acting like his dad, even with all that software around...
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Summary: Don't leave without it
Review: Great and slightly more sturdy version of the popular Palm. I like the metal casing. I hate the fact that when you put the unit in your shirt pocked it is very easy to create pressure on the buttons and pretty soon the device is scrolling and clicking away.
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Summary: I've had problems with the Palm V
Review: Our office has been urging us to use Microsoft Outlook Planner Scheduler to schedule all of our meetings and appointments. I was originally keeping appointments in the old Franklin Day Planner. However, there was no way to synchronize the Franklin Planner with the Outlooks scheduler, hence I missed a lot of meetings. The Palm V has been an excellent tool to coordinate this. I looked at the Psions, however, they were very big and cumbersome as compared to the Palm V. Size does matter(If I wanted a laptop, I would have gotten one). The compact size of the Palm V is a major benefit and the fact that it synchronizes with my PC makes this great. I have several problems with it however. The first is when the Palm V is in my pocket, the cover sometimes closes on the buttons on the front and you hear a clicking sound. I am sure this kills the battery, let alone annoying. I have looked into a hard case, but now you start to get back into the larger size issue. The other problem I have had with the Palm V is that the touch sensitive screen has lost its "touch". It got to the point where I could not even use the Palm V at all. It was not responsive to any touch of the stylus. It just locked up. I eventually had to reboot and it seemed to have cured the problem, but it is slower than when I first purchased it and still is erratic in its touch repsonse. Has anyone else had this problem? I have almost gotten to the point where I have quit using it. Maybe the Psion will win out? Overall, I think it is a helluva tool, as long as it works!
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Summary: Extremely useful
Review: Since buying the Palm V for myself at Christmas I can't live without it. Hotter news (thanks to AvantGo), games, and the brilliant HotSync-function all leave me very impressed.
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Summary: Where's The Beef?
Review: Like everyone else (I guess) I was seduced by that small bullet colored case that could fit in my shirt pocket. The conventional wisdom said that if you want a PDA, get a Palm V. At first I was excited but then saw that you could only do a few essential items and the screen was impossible to see. Also, the buttons always get mashed when it sits in your suit jacket so that the battery gets wasted. When I saw a friend's CE based PDA with full color and multimedia, I started surfing for one of those. I hope Palm beefs up the processor and the screen to come up with some less drowsy applications--then they'll really have something. Until then, I think they're doing Bill Gates a favor.
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Summary: Palm V is great
Review: The Palm V has really helped me become organized. The things I like about it are: 1) It is more of a proactive planner, meaning you can have it set off alarms for appointments. 2) There is a huge software base out there. Sites have thousands of software titles for the Palms. The last thing I've seen problems with the Palm turning itself on...well there is a software based fix for that!
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Summary: Great style, but an important flaw
Review: I finally decided to spend the extra $$ for the Palm V and give my old Palm III to my dad. Afterall, I loved the styling, but more importantly wanted the slimmer size. Unfortunately, when you use the hard cover that comes with the Palm V and put it in your pocket, it causes the power button to turn on and then the up/down key constantly clicks. Huh? So then I went out and got the hard case (a rip off if you ask me), causing the Palm V to be just as thick as my Palm III. That left me wondering why I bothered spending all that extra money to get a Palm no smaller than the one I already had. Dad, can I get my Palm III back?
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Summary: Just do it.
Review: If you're already committed to shelling out a couple of C notes for a PDA, you might as well go the extra step and get the V. The III is yesterday's news. Enjoy.
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