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Summary: Good but too expensive
Review: Eventhough it's good and fast due to SD card bandwidth interface, compared to MMC and Sony memory stick. Palm 16 MB SD card is too expensive. The price of [money], you can buy at least 32 MB or even 64 MB of Sandisk SD card from some stores. Moreover, 16 MB is not enough anymore when most of the professional palm programs are among 4-5 MB.
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Summary: Don't leave home without it!
Review: Having lived through a Palm IIIx glitch that erased all my address listings, when I bought my Palm M505 I vowed to make the Memory Backup Card one of my next purchases.It is tiny enough to store virtually anywhere (although not in a wallet or place where it will be manhandled). It backs up my Palm, including 3rd party software, in just over 3 minutes. Operation could not be simpler. Pop the card into the SD slot, press backup and off you go. The card has a small lock switch, which keeps you from accidently erasing the data. One thing that Palm should include is a small case for the card. I use the case for my Sandisk 32 mb card to protect the Memory Backup Card, but this should really be included, especially since the card has exposed contacts that should be kept clean. All in all, an elegant solution to system backup and worth the price for peace of mind.
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Summary: A Traveller's Best Friend- Protect Important New Contacts
Review: I bought two of these cards. Just like it is supposed to, this card only backs up your PDA's built-in memory, not your expansion card memories. The most important thing in my PDA is my built-in memory. It contains my contacts, my calendar and my encrypted PINs- I use an encryption program. I cannot afford to have these lost which is why I use a PDA in the first place. If my PDA is lost or destroyed I can buy a new PDA, but if I just entered several new contacts, appointments, or encrypted PINs since I last performed a HotSync, I have to reacquire that data. I carry one backup card on me at all times in a pill box- along with my other expansion cards- and swap it every week with a backup card I keep at home or in my hotel room. This way I have a week old back up if I need to check something I accidentally deleted without selecting "Save archive copy on PC". If my wife or I enter an important new contact, appointment, or encrypted PIN, I immediately use my back-up card to back up the data, instead of waiting until the next time I am at my computer to HotSync. Most people recommend buying a 16MB expansion card and using a backup program to backup your PDA. I disagree. Since the backup software is hardwired into the card and very simple to use, I do not have to worry about accidentally ruining the backup. This card is not for everyone. But if you have important data, the ability to buy a replacement PDA, slip the back-up card in, and instantly have your PDA back, makes this a life saver on the road. -Bj
CJ's Husband
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Summary: buy an expansion card only if you have the money you forgot
Review: I buy this card because i am running out of room for a large dictionary i installed (4MB appz+db). I am really happy to get this extra memory and back home to manage my palm even better. However, only the appz itself (34KB) can be moved to the card and the DB still left in the 8MB ram area in order to work. Normally, the appz is small relative to the supporting DB. Palm has promised to give you a chance to expand but don't be mislead by the number of MB available. For the time being, a 2MB expansion card is good enough for you to hold that extra piece of sw. Not until all, at least most, sw vendor/developer promised to make their appz support the card then you intend to buy one. It's really useless. I will pcik ZERO star but amazon let me have at least one.
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Summary: slippery slot
Review: I found that the version of Photoshop that comes with the m505 works from the card, and a lot of downloaded games and programs also work on the card, such as PacMan, Acid Solitaire, etc. Most disconcerting to me is the faulty locking mechanism on my m505. I need to tape the cards to the m505 to keep the card in the slot. I don't know if others have this problem too. Art
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Summary: Its slow and any other SD card sworks too and is probably ch
Review: I got my card a while ago when nobody could answer if cards from other vendors work too. You get as an example the panasonic 64megs for 120 bucks which I would prefer now. Sometimes it says it enhances your memory but its not the same as internal memory. Applications start slower from the card, if at all (some like vindigo do not work of the card since they need more then one file to execute properly). Also the overall handling is uncomfortable. You need to get tools like Filez, MS Mount and McFile to make working with the card more userfriendly. The concept is definitly not yet ready for primetime. My brotehr uses an MMC card and he says he gets the same speed when it comes to launching applications.
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Summary: Good product, could use some revising
Review: I got this product a few days after I got my M500, and I was moderately pleased. I am already down to about 2 MB remaining on my system memory, and needed a place to store extra applications. First of all, the card actually only has 14 MB of usable memory, so the advertised memory is exaggerated. Second, not all programs can be copied to the disk, which is mostly all the third party software. However, I still think this is a must have for any M500/505 user, for now, at least.
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Summary: It does what it says... and thats it.
Review: I just bought the Palm m505 and this memory card. I assumed that it would triple my memory without a problem. I was half right. It tripled my memory, but only for applications that do not access other files. In other words, your Palm (and I assume any other device using this card) will not be able to access document files put on the card. Nor will readers on the card be able to access the normal memory. I use about 85% of the normal 8 megas on the palm and most of that is for documents and books. This card is useless for that. Right now I have installed everything that I can get to run on the card and its less then 1 MB. I have memory, but nothing that goes on it is very big and the big files wont work on it. I gave it 2 stars because it did do what it said. If I find a way around this dilemna I will love what it can do. Bottom line, it promises more then it delivers.
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Summary: I admit when I am wrong...
Review: I said if I found the solution I would get back here and recant...Well here I am. I wrote the first review and I have since found software that was included with the Palm unit that enables you to read documents (only from peanut press). I discovered this is desperation as there was nothing in either manual (for the card or the Palm) which told me this was true. So I now have the memory that I need for the documents I have, but I had to stumble onto the solution.
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Summary: Would like to give it more than 3 stars
Review: I would like to give Palm 5 stars for this product but in spite of it works excelent, I have to say that in the event that one card stops working 3 weeks after bought, Palm as a serious company confident of the quality of its product should have a minimun Warranty for this kind of accesories. Not the case. I decided to bought it after having Palms since the 3com pro model and noticed how important is to count with your data in the event of a Palm accident. Unfortunately, what should be a bullet prof device fails first than the device it was suposed to protect.
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