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Summary: Some important info about the Palm Expansion card:
Review: In order to avoid problems and issues with purchasing this card, you should know what it is capable of! This hardware was released before the software vendors were able to update their software to run on it ( if they even intended to ) MOST database programs will not run on this card, most large programs will not run on this card. In fact, it is a RARE program that actually will run on the card! To be specific:NO palm brand or palm supplied software ( address book, to-do's...) will run on this card NONE of the software supplied on the supplemental software CD that Palm gives you when you purchase the device will work on the card. Palm offers NO help, info or advice about the card. Palm tech support people not only lack information about what can and cannot run on this card, but their response to every question is ....that is 3rd party software, ask the vendor. Most vendors I contacted told me to contact palm! A few vendors told me they were upgrading their software so that " it should work on the card sometime in the future." Palm could not supply with the name of ONE SINGLE piece of software that runs on the card!!! I asked what software they may have used for beta testing and they claimed not to know that information. However, by experimenting with my palm I found that the following was true ( this of course only covers the software I own, there may be some other software that does work better ) This software DOES NOT run on the expansion card: Address book, Memos, To Do's, Calculator, Notes, Clock, Mail, Memo pad, Expense, Any of the Teal products, Michelin restaurant guide, Zagat restaurant guide ( although Zagat did tell me they are working on an upgrade ), Word to go, Fireviewer ( although that vendor did specifically tell me it would work on the card ) Route Expert, Any of the Aramis products ( city travel guides ) Metro-O, or any of the Collins dictionaries These product DO work on the expansion card: Clock Plus, Currency X, and Unit Convert So, to summarize...think carefully about what you intend to use this card for because there is a high possibility that you will be disappointed! This may be one palm add-on that you may want to wait awhile to purchase. Instead, buy a Palm back-up card. It works beautifully and seamlessly!
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Summary: Here's the truth about this card
Review: It's a normal 16MB expansion card with a backup program on it. But the 16MB card from Palm costs more. Make sense to you? Well it doesn't make sense to me either! So if you want a Palm 16MB expansion card buy this instead, and delete the backup program. In fact there are better *free* backup programs you could install instead!
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Summary: Here's the truth about this card
Review: It's a normal 16MB expansion card with a backup program on it. But the 16MB card from Palm costs more. Make sense to you? Well it doesn't make sense to me either! So if you want a Palm 16MB expansion card buy this instead, and delete the backup program. In fact there are better *free* backup programs you could install instead!
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Summary: Screwed up in several ways, but read to find out what!
Review: Ok, i've read the reviews. I know what they say about these expansion cards, they dont' work, blah blah blah. So I bought one. First of all I will tell you some things. First of all, if you are going to buy an expansion card, DON"T BUY THIS ONE! I bought it a few months ago and now you can get 4 times the space, 64mb for (less). Thats worth it. But meanwhile, about the card. Ok, You cannot put like your date book and adress book on this. Palm protects that stuff so no one can read it from you. So you have to keep that on you handheld. I've put all of my games on this palm, tetris, Ace, Pinball, bomb, boxman, rally 1000, space trader, space war, tictac toe, UFO wars, and tons of other software. I keep all of my photos from MGI Photo Suite on here and all of my videos from TealMovie. It works like a charm. The problem is if you fill the thing up more than 50%, your looking at a 10-20 sec wait everytime you want to access anything on the card. That isn't bad considering the space on it but if you are VERY VERY impatient, forget it. I love this thing, I own a 16mb (this one), a 32 mb (SanDisk), and a 64 mb (SanDisk). Don't be worried about buying from SanDisk which sells the 64 mb card, I've talked w/palm and SanDisk manufactures teh cards for Palm anyways so yoru getting the same product w/a diff. lable. The reason this is 3 stars is the cost. (...) Search SanDisk Secure Digital card on Amazon.com and you'll find the better buy.
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Summary: It's what you expect... if you know what to expect ;)
Review: The 16MB expansion card gives 14MB of additional storage space (talk about rounding up!). It's never fallen out, even when my Palm fell out of my pocket and onto the pavement (proving that the m505 can survive a 3-foot fall). Yes, it's slower than running programs directly from my m505, but isn't that what you'd expect from a removable storage medium? It doesn't bother me, since I simply store the stuff I use the most on my Palm and the rest on my card. I've been able to run the packaged PhotoSuite program as well as a number of freeware programs/games off the card. Some stuff doesn't work, and that's annoying because it's basically trial and error, but with all those creative software people out there, it's just a matter of time before software compatibility catches up with the new Palm hardware. I think it's a bit pricey, which is my only real knock on the card. If you're expecting to add 16MB of fast memory, you'll be disappointed. If you're looking for 14MB of memory with limited but growing software compatibility, you'll be satisfied. Either way, Palm has us m50x users at its mercy, particularly if you're like me and bought your m50x knowing that you'd need more megabytes. But you paid for convenience and portability, and you got it. You can still laugh at those guys with Visor Edges that need more memory as they strap on that giant adaptor for their memory modules.
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Summary: Slow, Slow
Review: The card is great for external storage, but there's quite a delay in the Palm accessing the card's data. It runs much more slowly off of the card than with its internal memory.
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Summary: The only Revie you need to read about the Backup Card.
Review: This card does everything it is supposed to do. No more... No less. The program activates automatically when placed in the unit. It is not an extra 16mb of memory but rather a 16mb card with Backup software built in. It does not back up other cards. It backs up the Palm's memory only. It works awesome. The only problems I have with it, 1- I would like to be able to select individual items to back up. 2- It seems to fail every other backup attempt (More a nuisance than anything else). 3- Lack of instructions.
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Summary: Overpriced, undersized
Review: This card is a sham folks, save your money and get a 16MB or 32MB MMC or SD card and download BackupBuddy. They offer two versions, a free utility that installs onto the card and the palm that allows you to do manual backups and restores. Or a very cheap shareware version that does automated incremental backups, encrypts the backup files. Both versions allow you to restore from the card without having to reload the software into the palm. I don't know why Palm choose to sell this card at such a high price... it seems like they took an MMC card and put a backup utility on it, and doubled the price.
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Summary: Good for your aplications
Review: This is a good product for store your aplications, the only bad thing is that you can't store databases on it.
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Summary: The Palm Memory backup card is great!
Review: This works without a hitch! It is a cinch to install and the backup process is easy to do and reletively quick. This is a very useful device to have when you are traveling and could have a loss of power, or an inability to sync to your computer. Well worth the $!!
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