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Summary: Great Product - Easy to Use
Review: This is a great product. The travel cable is much less bulky than a docking station. Great color and speed. Works fantastically with Office. The MP3 player warrants some additional flash memory but well worth it. Great software to boot.
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Summary: HP makes a good PDA!
Review: This product is not only slick-looking, but VERY easy to use. 16MB of RAM is a big plus too. Easy to use MS Word & Outlook on this- it means I don't have to drag around my laptop as often! MP3 player is nice added bonus. Buy it.
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Summary: The HP Jornada 430se changed the way we do work.
Review: We had a little bit of cash left over and decided to buy the whole software development team PDAs. I decided that because of Microsoft's history of providing support to older Operating Systems (upgrades to WindowsCE had already been offered) that we would go with a WinCE-based product. With a 240x320 pixel 16 bit color display, 16 MBytes of memory and stereo headphone jack backed-up by a quality MP3 decoder, the Jornada 430se was our new toy! We stopped carrying paper. No one is late to meetings. No one scrambles for print-outs. No one says "I don't have a copy of that memo in front of me." Tasks/calendars/contact/email are in color, straight from Windows Outlook to your Personal PC. The Jornada's buttons and scroll wheel allow one handed operation, the voice recognition software allows one button operation. Two bad sides: 1) People used to Palm pilots think it is a little bulky and decry its use of Windows. In my opinion, they are whiners. 2) The HP Jornada 430se runs my life. Now I forget nothing and this bums me out. The Jornada keeps metrics of my uncompleted tasks and I now realize how truly unproductive I am.
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Summary: Cool color screen but I'll take a Palm Vx thank you
Review: When I started looking at PDA's, I was initially attracted to the Casio and the Jornada because of their color screens and features not found on the Palm machines. Long story short is that ultimately the PDA I bought was a Palm Vx. What was important to me was size, battery life, and functionality. I want a name now! Windows CE is still slow no matter how fast a processor you put in the machine - which kills the battery life in the meantime. If I'm travelling I have my portable computer to do the other things that a CE machine can do. For day to day life, I don't know where I would keep a larger CE device. My Palm Vx has never faltered or skipped a beat, the beam feature is great, there's lots of free software, and it lasts a week on one battery charge even playing Subhunt more than I should. Have you seen avantgo? You can download your news when you hotsync. My conclusion: If you travel alot and don't carry a portable and you don't mind have to carry a charger with you the CE's may be the way to go. Otherwise save yourself the hassle and get a Palm or a Visor.
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Summary: Cool color screen but I'll take a Palm Vx thank you
Review: When I started looking at PDA's, I was initially attracted to the Casio and the Jornada because of their color screens and features not found on the Palm machines. Long story short is that ultimately the PDA I bought was a Palm Vx. What was important to me was size, battery life, and functionality. I want a name now! Windows CE is still slow no matter how fast a processor you put in the machine - which kills the battery life in the meantime. If I'm travelling I have my portable computer to do the other things that a CE machine can do. For day to day life, I don't know where I would keep a larger CE device. My Palm Vx has never faltered or skipped a beat, the beam feature is great, there's lots of free software, and it lasts a week on one battery charge even playing Subhunt more than I should. Have you seen avantgo? You can download your news when you hotsync. My conclusion: If you travel alot and don't carry a portable and you don't mind have to carry a charger with you the CE's may be the way to go. Otherwise save yourself the hassle and get a Palm or a Visor.
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