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Summary: The Best!
Review: I own this PDA and have used it extinsively over the past few months. What I have to say is based on my expierience. Reviewers that say it has only 4 hours of battery life etc. are nuts. I charge mine once a week and use it daily. The OS has yet to crash and I use a 16MB card. I noticed one reviewer said since it only has 32MB of RAM and a card is essintial. This is not true. It has 24MB of flash ROM(where the OS sets), and a full 32MB for storage. I know this because I own and have used one. It is clearly the best value in the PDA market based on its capability and price. And BTW the color screen is great.
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Summary: The perfect PDA
Review: I went from the Casio E-125, aka the 'brick', to this incredible piece of workmanship! Microsoft has come a long way with the 2002 OS and Toshiba has by far surpassed any expectations in the development of their Pocket PC. The Actisync was not easy to get used too, but once you go tweak the settings it's fine. I love this thing, and best of all, my friend's carrying around their Palms envy ME now!!
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Summary: problem with accidently turning on recorder
Review: Easy to use. The only problem is that when you take it out of the holder you almost always will hit the record button. I can't believe that they did not notice that when making the product. It can be a real pain because you have to shut the recorder off each time. The only way to get it out is to grab at the top and then you get finger prints on the screen. My first experience with a pda and I am happy with it otherwise
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Summary: Palm Device - but better
Review: What does my title mean? It means the Toshiba e310 is your regular Palm device, small form factor, weightless, looks nice, performs well - but it's only better - it uses the feature rich Pocket PC 2002 Operating System.When I was shopping for my PDA, I had my eyes on the m505 (from Palm) and then when that was stopped, and the m515 replaced it - I was just a few dollars short of buying it! But, then I discovered this device ... Not only did this device match the m515 in everything, it had SOUND! Something the m515 didn't, I was hoping to use my PDA as a portable MP3 player, and the m515 was just not up to the job! This thing is a powerhouse! It does everything I need it to do, both for fun and work. I run my own small multimedia business, and the PPC carries all the Excel quote sheets, so I can finally quote on the go! It carries all my partner companies price lists in easy to read Word files. It can take full motion video - so I am able to plug in an SD memory card and watch my home videos while I'm out and about. And most importantly, it plays MP3s! However, I've saved the best till last! The combination of this, a bluetooth mobile phone and the bluetooth SD card allows me to send and recieve my email (securely) from anywhere via GRPS! This is what I got my PDA for! However, a few nags I have with it. The ActiveSync software has a major flaw in it, when you install it, it sets the PPC to "check for connection" every 5 minutes, so therefore, if I leave my PPC in my pocket for an hour, the unit turns itself on every 5 minutes! Wasting a already limited battery life. This can be solved by going into the ActiveSync settings, but the fact remained, it was no where in the manual (which was also very limiting!) and it took me a whole week to figure out what was wrong. The next biggest gripe I have is (and I only have myself to blame!) is the build quality. It's great everywhere except near the jog dial button, the outer casing creaks and feels very loose around that part. Also, some MP3s come out with a slight hiss through my headphones, but then, these are just badly made MP3s - but still, the hiss is not present on a decent soundcard. Overall, I love this device, and give it the highest of recommendations! EDIT: I've mucked around with sound files and stuff, and found 96K WMA sound files work like a treat through a decent set of headphones... just thought you'd like to know.
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Summary: THE TRUTH
Review: The battery is 2 hrs tops not 8 hrs. Any info you are working on will be lost. Who wants to charge the battery every few hours? If you pay for top of the line toshiba they give you the option of buying an external plug in battery. So far other than Bluetooth which limits your range there is no other wireless way to go online. Might as well us your pc at home if you cant go very far.
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Summary: Thinnest and most practical
Review: I use Toshiba laptop as my prime pc so I dont expect to replace it with e310. In transit, can catch up with .doc, .pdf or even MS Reader format work documents conveniently. The amazing offline and online capabilities of internet explorer can shock some people. You can go online via cradle or read your websites offline. It not live online,yet but am sure with Wi-Fi card, this will be strong contender with the laptop. Especially waiting at the airports.
Sleeker, and not clunky like Compaq and yet as powerful. If I didnt mind bulky, I will stay with the laptop and not buy.
Compaq.If looking for compact flash slot, buy the e570 or e740.
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Summary: very nice
Review: Very nice unit. Bright screen. Really thin. Decent battery life.
I still like my Palm i705 for typical PDA tasks -- contact management, calendar, and so on. The e310 is nice for games and multimedia stuff that wouldn't work well on a Palm.
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Summary: Is changing my life the way my Palm Pilot once did...
Review: When I bought this, the e740 just came up for sale. But I decided to purchase this anyway because, in the end, I need a "pocket" PC. I usually take my notebook with me everywhere. That has all the POWER I need. What I really needed in a PDA was portability. I'm thrilled to death with my e310! It's a portable workstation and entertainment center!!! I bought a few 64MB MMC cards (also SD cards - they both seem to work just fine). Now I carry a selection of music, ebooks, and audio books with me everywhere I go. I'LL NEVER BE BORED AGAIN! Oh, and I use it for work too. Mostly, I use excel. But I use the same functions as my old Palm V too. It's about the same size, and to be honest, not much more functional for productivity. But SO MUCH PRETTIER! I do miss my Palm V's simplicity and responsiveness (whose brilliant idea was it to have to shut down programs from one central location???). And the variety of software available for download is definitely far worse than Palm OS. Finally, the only real complaint I have is that the display is terrible with Clear Type. Almost unreadable. IPaqs and Jornadas are definitely FAR superior. However, in conclusion, the e310 is fantastic. I don't have much exposure with other Pocket PCs, but one look will show you how different they will feel in your pocket. And, as far as I know, there's not a whole lot of difference in operation (e.g. 206mhz ARM, reflective TFT, 32MB, etc.) If you want a "Pocket" PC, this is really the only way to fly. All other Pocket PCs are a compromise when it comes to the only thing that really matters: portability. If you want more power, get an ultraportable notebook.
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Summary: Pointless
Review: There is absolutely no point - now that there are palmtops on the market that are far more functional - in a handheld that requires the use of a dinky little stylus and a specialized writing method to enter characters, and has a tiny little display window unsuited for any long form text.
Not to mention that it has an MS operating system, which I have some philosophical problems with.
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Summary: I would deny it...
Review: If you told my boss that I said this, I would deny it, but I didn't buy this e310 for work. This is the most fun that I have had with an electronic "work device" since I bought my first PC. I've been reluctant to convert to PDAs for a number of reasons, but the thin size, great price, Pocket PC software, and my experience with Toshiba portables were enough to get me to pitch my paper scheduler and give this Pocket PC a try. So far the conversion has been going just fine. There are so many +'s that I can't mention them all. I'm not just referring to the cool features built into the OS, but the Pocket PC itself has many mentionables; like the record button on the top left side that makes audio notes a cinch. The screen is a definite strength. The adjustable front-light makes the screen comfortably viewable in just about any setting. It makes sense to invest in the relatively expensive screen overlays, because they double as anti-glare protectors. I say that even though I have never successfully got one on without a bunch of the tiny air bubbles stuck under the surface. Thanks to Adobe you can enjoy reading pdf files anywhere you can take this. Some of the annoyances are that on first look it would seem that both the USB cable accessory, that is sold separately as a replacement for the cradle, and the power cable won't fit in the bottom at the same time, but at a closer look the power cable plugs into the USB cord, so you can charge while you sync without the cradle. I do hope that more networking options become available for the SD slot. Currently the BlueTooth compatible device is the only one listed for this PDA. I also wish the industry would decide on a PC Card standard so all our cameras, PDAs, and portables could share cards without depending on conversion. No external keyboard yet either. The LI-ION battery-life is OK. It depends on how much you use the thing. There is no external access to the battery which I find a little strange. Without being read on the matter, I figure that the battery is accessed by removing the back-plate. I am a bit afraid of that moment when this PDAs durability is tested. I've certainly felt more rugged feeling Pocket PCs. But who knows, Toshiba is full of surprises. On the topic of the OS, the default settings for the input word-selection, that's like a popup AutoComplete as you type, bugged me. I don't like that the popup words are usually the longest form of the word, so you seldom use them. Luckily, I found the way to increase the number of words that popup, which helped. I find Toshiba's e310 PDA more than easy, efficient, practical, compact, sleek and enjoyable to use, it's a blast!
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