Toshiba e335 Pocket PC

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Summary: It is a quite good pocket PC, but...
Review: Generally, I was impressed by the slim design. The price is affordable, and the resolution and color was good. However, the battary seems a problem. Also, the power button is quite difficult to turn power on and off. The color screen changes to dull color suddenly. Otherwise, it is a good pocket PC.

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Summary: The Best POCKET PC for the money!
Review: Over the past 10 years I have gone through at least 6 different PDA's. I stick to the Pocket PC format because I believe it is
truly superior. My last PDA was a HP Jornada 520 that recently
broke beyond repairs. I decided to buy the Toshiba 335e because of the price, size and the new Pocket PC 2002 operating system.
This machine really is superb! Very light, in fact, at times too light and slippery. I downloaded PocketTv to watch mpegs and other softwares without any problems. Active sync was no problem. A very good mobile product. I believe better than its big brother the e740 (which I bought for my girlfriend, now she is mad!)

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Summary: do NOT buy if you travel -- major conceptual problem here
Review: A wonderful little machine if you want to be a slave to always finding a power outlet within 24 hours -- or lose all data!!

Imagine a PC which loses ALL data when unplugged. That's what the Toshiba 330 & 335 are. Since all data is stored in RAM, when the battery runs out, all data is lost.

The problem is that the battery runs out in 24-30 hours even when TURNED OFF!

This is a scenario I don't ever want to experience: arrive in London for the big meeting. Been in airports for 12 hours, tired. Head to hotel. Don't have English adapter plug, so don't plug in. Fall asleep. Wake up 8 hours later. Poof! Your meeting address, notes and contacts are gone.

Yeah! What a concept. Perhaps I'm missing something here, but this is one of the worst user-experience flaws I've seen in a long time.

Buy an old Palm. You might not have all the widgets, but at least you'll know where you're supposed to be.

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Summary: Great value, fun product!
Review: I recently purchased the Toshiba e335 Pocket PC and switched over after more than 5 years as a Palm Pilot user. I'm still getting used to the differences, but overall am very impressed with the Pocket PC capabilities versus the Palm OS. I miss the incredible ease-of-use and bulletproof reliability of the Palm, but so far it is more than compensated for by increased function and flexbility.

... The Toshiba e335 is light and fun and has been very reliable so far. The documentation is weak, and my first day with the unit was one of frustration because I actually tried to follow the directions for sync-ing to my PC, but since I got past that hurdle it's been pretty smooth sailing. The online help system was only marginally helpful in resolving my problem, but the tech support guy at Toshiba was very patient through multiple problems with my laptop PC before finally being able to resolve what turned out to be a Pocket PC documentation error.

I am really enjoying the clarity and colors of the Toshiba screen: although it's not quite as good as some of its competitors, the difference is negligible, and hasn't interfered with my enjoyment of the unit.

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Summary: Great Pocke PC & Great Price
Review: This is not just a glorified address book & schedule PDA: To call this a PDA is an insult. It is a Pocke PC: a small computer with MS Word Pocket, MS Reader, Windows Media Player, Photograph software, and much more. It is the best Pocket PC for the price on the market today. Color Screen: Great resolution. Memory can be added with a secure digital card: 32 MB, 64 MB, 128 MB, or 256 MB. Compact: Truly a Pocket sized PC, which fits nicely into a shirt pocket. Fast: My Pocket PC is packed full of programs but it is still fast. Great Price: The ... rebate can't be beat. Customer Service: Toshiba Customer service is very friendly and helpful. The bottom line: Toshiba e335 rocks!!!

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Summary: Awsome Power and great organization ability
Review: This Pocket PC is the best choice in the world to me. I beleive anyone that buys this will be satisfeid.

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Summary: leonmorris
Review: I bought the e335 because of it's appearance, slim size, 300mhz, price and 64 mb. Unfortunately, I found it to be very unreliable. It worked consistently less than 2 days for the 2 weeks that I owned it. I constantly experienced problems with syncing it to my computer. I made 2 calls totalling 3 hours on the phone with Toshiba and they were even at a loss.

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Summary: GREAT BUY
Review: I purchased this PDA after ordering the Axim from Dell and found myself waiting 3 weeks for delivery. I heard the Dell only supports Outlook 2000 while the 335 supports Outlook 2002. The 335 has a slim profile, the buttons are easy to use and the metal casing gives the whole unit a well put together feel. I had mine up and running in no time but there is one caveat - Pocket PC 2002 does not synch with hotmail. You have to go to a vendor to get a program that allows you to download hotmail messages - I could not get them out of my Outlook inbox. The unit came with a crade and a travel charger (but not a travel cradle), stylus, psuedo-leather case and one screen saver. I had the Palm M100 and it just not compare - in fact, I reviewed the Palm lineup and decided to go with a system that directly supported MS products rather than having to purchase interfaces. I carry this thing everywhere. Now, if someone would just get Quicken on Pocket PC I'd be a real happy camper (you can get Money but I have Quicken on my computer). The only other drawback (if you can call it that) is that the battery is not interchangeable like the Dell - so I just carry a travel charger in my briefcase.
All and all, a great buy.

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Summary: For those who demand more...
Review: This review is submitted for people who demand more than basic PIM functions out of their PDAs. If you are looking for a simple PDA with only a calendar, an address book and a memo pad, you should really go and get Zire or m105. They are really good.

However, I wanted to upgrade my PDA (m100) and was looking for a device with at least 16 MB memory, good resolution color screen and preferably mp3/wma playing capability. I initially considered Palm m500 series but had to give them up because of their bad reputation (which I personally experienced) for screen freezing that was not amenable to a soft reset. The worst part is that you have to send them to Palm to get them fixed that takes about 2 weeks in which time you are left Palmless. I could not accept my PDA freezing anytime because I really depend on it every instant. So as a demanding PDA user who wanted more memory and functions than my Palm m100 could offer, I had no choice to convert to a Pocket PC.

Pocket PCs inherently provide mp3 playback capability and word/excel document access in addition to basic PIM functions that are great.

E335 stood out among others with its 64 MB memory, 300 MHz processor, good color screen, lightness and sleekness. What I have also noticed is that it does not freeze and when it did a couple of times, it always responded to soft resets. The stereo quality is really very good and I enjoy listening to music (a dream with Palm OS for the moment).

ArcBase photo program is really cool and for those who demand photo viewing, it makes the Pocket Pc much more enjoyable.

The two drawbacks of e335 were that the Graffiti recognition was about 40% worse when compared to Palm (screen protectors help the recognition and I strongly recommend them for graffiti) and that when you transfer your memos from Palm, they are not automatically categorized. I had about 400 individual memo items and spent a great deal to organize them. By the way, unless you have Pocket mirror, there is no easy "free" way to transfer your info from Palm to Pocket PC.

One last thing, with Pocket PCs you cannot individually hide items as private (unlike Palm OS devices). You need to pay to get additional software for security. The device offers an optional initial security code for access to device, though.

The battery performance is predictably poor (needs once in very 2 days charging with optimum usage; mp3, bright screen etc) when compared to 2 months performance by a gray scale m100 on 2 AAAs but I come home everyday so that is not an issue for me. If you are going to get any high-res color screen PDA, you will inevitably sacrifice the battery no matter what.

I have to admit I still favor Palm OS over Windows CE because of its simplicity but the recent Palm models were not reliable enough for me to commit to. Now I can work on my Word documents with any of the 4 brightness-adjustable high-res color screen options and listen to a crisp sounding stereo mp3 tracks or just view my photo album in my spare time.

The manual does not involve the type of troubleshooting that is necessary. It is very important that you do not remove the synchronized files (Word, mp3, etc) from the PocketPC My Documents desktop folder without first deleting them from the Pocket PC. If you do remove them, the sync. Manager will give resolving conflict messages which are not solvable. This is the only important message that I can convey.

Overall, I believe that e335 is one of the best Pocket PCs around and it has completely satisfied my expectations except for the Graffiti recognition. I got the device at Amazon.com at an incredible price, which was much cheaper than M515! Incredible...

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Summary: great if it worked
Review: I recently received the e335. I am a palm user, but was seduced by a $... amazon rebate and a $... toshiba rebate. At approximately $... net, how could you lose on this 64 mb thin machine? Well, I lost. On day three the machine started to freeze. I rebooted once and had to reinstall everything. And then, 30 minutes later, it happened again.
When it worked, I loved it. Unfortunately it was a VERY short love afair.