Handheld Reviews

Srs. AMAZON, me dirijo a uds. para saber cuales son los pasos a seguir para ordenar la compra de 25 GPS Garmin 72, asi como el tiempo que demoraria en llegar, el precio exacto del envio y los impuestos.
Asi mismo nos interesa saber los costos de los accesorios del mismo:
- cuatro (5) PC interface cable.
- cuatro (5) licencias de MapSource.
- venticinco (25) estuches para los GPS.
- sesenta (60) pilas recargables Panasonic Ni/Cd.
- quince (15) cargadores para 4 pilas recargables.

Atentamente

Ing. Héctor Velásquez G.
CONSORCIO VCHI
Av. Larco 383 Miraflores
Lima - PERU
(511) 444-0537

I have tried a Etrex Vista, Sportmap, and a Gekko but I bought a Garmin 72. I like the 72 for use on my kayak where I can use the large screen to see my speed three feet away. This unit has been put through the ringer and it just keeps working. I don't miss the mapping at all.

Have used the GPS72 now for 4 months. It has been a pleasure to use. The Garmin operating system is is easy to follow and the prompts make it unnecessary to carry the manual to use all of the features. So far it is waterproof as advertised as it lives in my canoes and while not fully submerged is subject to splash and spray every time it is out. Approximately 66 hours of use to data and am totally happy.

i had no problems with the seller or the item

My Palm m100 came with the hot sync cable, which does what it is supposed to do must of the time (it usually takes 3-4 tries to get it to sync with my Palm and PC). This cradle is much easier to use and I wish I didn't have to but it separately. I just stand my Palm in the cradle, press the button and let it work its magic. It is also a great place to keep my Palm without having to worry about it falling off the desk.

I would recommend getting this if your Palm doesn't come with one. For me, at least, it has just been much easier to use.

If you have a 'busy' desk like I do, I used a 2-sided adhesive to keep the cradle in place.

Users of the Palm 100 would undoubtedly benefit from the easy to use m100 cradle. Instead of hooking up wires to the PDA, and running it in a "loose" mode while performing the necessary HotSync-ing, you simply place the m100 in the cradle and push the button to have it all done for you. Of course, in the box you got a cable to attach to your computer, but with this you now can update your computers at home and work without lugging around your cable.

This case fits an IPAQ 3650 in a CF sleeve perfectly which is what it was bought for. It is a little too small for a Palm V on the Ministrel (Omnisky) model which I was hoping it would also fit. For the IPAQ, this case has lots of padding and stiffness over the screen area. The inside pouches should be eliminated because it is unlikely that you can use them without taking a chance on scratching the screen [the smaller size which fits a Palm V without the modem has the same problem]. The large case in a slicker graphite fabric looks better than the smaller neophrene ones. Highly recommended but could be improved by substituting a smooth lining and a nylon zipper so the case of the PDA is not "dinged" by the metal zipper as happened to my Palm V with the smaller case.

I have been using this case for my ipaq3150 for a few months now.
Works great. It has good amount of foam padding and paper padding(?) so it feels rigid yet gives enough cushion.

I have actually used 3 pockets inside of the case, but it's nice to have them just in case I receive a business card or something like that.

One thing that I don't like is that It draws shadow on my ipaq when I put it inside the case it's sometimes hard to read what's on my ipaq especially indoors at night.

This case slides smoothly into and out of your pocket. You can take it out, flip it open and it's ready to use right there like a Star Trek tricorder...or those old communicators from TOS...whatever! The case is very plushed up for your PDA's protection. You could probably drop it and your PDA won't break. WAIT! I'm just kidding. I don't know that and I have not tried it...Don't do it! Anyway, it is very plush and snug and it will protect your PDA to a certain degree. It'll prevent scratches...wait, let me rephrase that. Scratches will be at a minimum, dust will collect at a minimum, it'll resist water to a certain degree (I mean you can probably run through rain and the case could protect it, but if you take a swim with it...it's over). Unfortunately, it's not bulletproof.

What more can I really say? A pouch is a pouch. This one works great. Oh, the bad sides to it... For some PDA's, you may have to kind of shift the PDA into the pouch like 1 centimeter to the left because it won't fold perfectly with the stylus on the right, top section of the pouch, meaning the stylus will fold onto the top of your PDA when you close it and it'll kind of bulge out...may not be such a great idea for the display screen, too. OH, I would advise people not to place any hard or sharp object into the pockets it provides because when you fold it shut, obviously it'll touch your PDA screen and...you may begin to cry. I'd recommend putting something like micro-fiber cloth, wipes, etc. into those pockets.

Overall, this is a great case. It's nice in design, it's durable, and convenient to lug around. It's much better than the factory pouch my PDA came with. Basically, it does what it is designed to do, so how can I give it a bad rating? Unless, it had cheap meterial, cheap engineering...but this one...engineered well and tough material. I'd recommend it to anyone with an iPAQ. Hey, for now it's either that or the $40-"executive" leather case, which in my opinion, is simply a cover rather than a case. Of course, there are new cases coming out soon, but like I said, "for now."

You have this bulky box radio, with sharp edges, and NO handle to carry it by! AND, somehow the engineers didn't even consider adding a telescoping antenna for FM reception. Furthermore, its AM reception, when I last tried it, STUNK! Couldn't even provide some legs for it, so it can be used on a carpeted floor (like MINE)...or at least the instructions tell you you shouldn't. Bose's sound quality is probably just as good, however. So far it's just been sitting in the box it came in, for a few months. Keep telling myself that I must take it out and try it again, but I doubt I'll get any better results from it now then when I first eagerly took it out of its box. :( Furthermore, GE Super Radios (not sure they make them anymore, unfortunately) get FAR better AM reception. I must admit, however, that the sound IS superb when a signal comes in clearly. Otherwise, was much disappointed, though wasn't quite sure whether to rate it a 2 OR 3, the latter being based, of course, on the superior sound quality.

I am astonished and pleasantly surprised to find a product which I purchased as a gift for my parents more than 10 years ago is still being sold. This Sony table radio (remember that means it has to be plugged in) is a real winner and its longevity in the marketplace is a testimony to that fact. Even in the age of digital everything, this radio is definitely worth considering. As a fussy listener I can assure you that for a radio of its size the sound quality is outstanding and its attractive appearance will fit into both home and office settings. You will not be disappointed.

I bought this radio as a gift for my sister. She mentioned after a recent trip how much she enjoyed listening to classical music on a public radio station on her drive. Sometime later she also mentioned she'd like a radio for her kitchen. This radio fills the bill on both counts. It has connections for an external FM antenna, but with it's strong tuner it's not needed; even for those low powered public radio stations. The slide band tuning is easy and quick to tune and has a solid quality feel. The sound is great. If you're looking for an affordable quality table radio, this is the one.

I have a HP Omnibook 4150 and jornada 560, I do hate traveling with the original charger and cradle, I was excited finding a single lightweight cable that do both functions, but before I purchase it, I read all the customer reviews and I found strange the Amazon's...product review explaining that the cable simply does not work until he received two more from iConcepts support with different configurations. Any way I decided to buy it and guess what?... it charges the PDA but does not sync!, it is recognized when it is plugged between PC and PDA but just in the minute you expect to see files synchronizing it appears a "No connected" window.
Due to [the] review I thought that maybe one cable was maybe making shortcut or that one connector cable was swapped... I tested both the cable and the original hp cradle with a "multimeter" expecting to find something different but unfortunately both were exactly the same!. I have access to the HP Jornada's support center technicians and they can't find an answer to what's happening. I tried with another jornada and friend's PC (expecting that mine were having a problem) but it made the same error. There are two things that I believe are happening:
1) The cable can't support the bandwidth required to do sync.
2) The connector pins are slightly shorter that the hp cradle so maybe one of those are not making contact with the PDA.

...the solution was different!, I noticed that the USB connector in the plastic part was thicker than others, that avoid the cable to go all the way in, causing the "no conection messagge" so I handmade cut the plastic connector of the USB side, in order to the metallic conector and pins are longer like 1/8 inch and the cable works excelent!!! thats why I give 4 stars.

This cable is a great portable alternative to the hot-sync cradle that comes with the Jornada, which tends to be bulky and difficult to carry. And while it functions just like the cradle, it allows you to charge your PDA directly from the computer/lap-top's USB port.

However, there is one shortcoming. Obviously, the level of power that the USB port provides is much less than that of a regular wall outlet. Consequently, charging time is greatly increased. because of this, I would only recommend the cable for travel when you can't bring the hotsync along.

After reading some reviews I was concerned that this product would not work as advertised, but I am here to tell you that this product works very well!

I already own 1 hp jornada 548 and I gotta say, i love this pda! MUCH better. This thing stands up to horrendus abuse. I'm a delivery driver, and this thing lives in my car. Stands up to heavy weights put on it, baking in the sun for days on end, and I love the flash rom disk! The only bad side I see to it, is the single SDIO slot. I would have preferred a CF slot as well, but for $300, it's still a great value.

For those who wish to get a quick review; This is the best pocket pc in the $200 dollar price range. I bought mine in April and I absolutely love it, my best friend bought one two weeks ago and he loves his as well. I am completely satisfied.

Pros:

After trying several PDA's I've finally found one I really like, at the right price and with the combination of features I will use.

1. (...)this one clearly stands heads and shoulders above the rest in this price range.

2. The e405 is very fast and effective while using media player and running basic games and the like. I'm not what you would call a "power user" but I've compared this to several models in the HP line and it is every bit as fast and functional (or better) in the case of the 1945. This is also the first PDA I've not had to reset once in the first month of use.

3. The form factor (size/shape) of this unit is GREAT, it is the thinnest I've seen and fits well in a pocket. The attractive metal housing is another big plus for me, the buttons are well placed and functional, the screeen is very bright and clear also.

4. I was truly surprised by just how much I like this Toshiba PDA once I started using it, very nice.

Cons:

1. I haven't had to contact Toshiba support as of yet, so it's hard to rate them although I'd suspect it is lacking like most companies in this market today.

2. Battery is not replaceable, but I can live with that for the price range I'm in. Battery life is about the same as the HP models I've tried, I can go 2-3 days between recharging with moderate use.

Just beware. I own an e335 model and am very happy with it. This time I bought the e405 for my wife and "surprise!" it comes without a cradle and a (vinyl) leather case. They are labled as "optional". The e305 vinyl leather case protected mine from an 7ft drop. You will have to spend another $25 for the case and $39 for the cradle.

My gift was incomplete and Amazon doesn't sell these accesories as of today (4/29/2004).

Because of increased travel I needed to be able to do email and web surfing using my Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC through my cell phone. Someone finally suggested Socket might have the digital phone card/cable I needed to connect to my Motorola StarTac phone. Their web site and "pre-buy" customer support were very helpful. After buying the phone card/cable, their tech support was very helpful in set-up and initial connection settings for getting connected to my ISP. Tech support knew the iPAQ and easily walked me through the necessary steps. The digital card has worked flawlessly. I can now download and send email and surf the net wherever I have a digital phone signal.

I purchased this socket modem and have been satisfied with the ease of use. It is a little slow (CDMA phones limit speed to 19.2), but it is more than adequate for remote connectivity. It works well with my Windows 2000 laptop and with my Jornada 548.

If you're going to buy a modem and you have a StarTac phone. Forget the hard line! This thing is great. It was a snap to get it working with both my Jornada and my Dell Inspiron. Bandwidth is very good and I have had 0 problems in 30+ connections the past two weeks.

The best thing about this is the design, but the arms connecting the screen and keyboard look odd when the unit is closed. The screen is fairly dim, and must be used in a dark/moderately lit room. The viewing angle of the screen is horrible; the only position you can see the whole screen without an inversion/blackout effect is at an angle where any overhead lighting glares all over the place. The CPU speed isn't particularly slow, but the graphics ([re]drawing the screen) goes on at an awful crawl - i.e. it's no good for graphical things. Now I must sound entirely bitter and biased against this machine, but I'm not, I carry it in my bag all the time and use it when I can. I even use it as an electronic book, its best use so far.

Let me state first off that I love(d) this machine! It is light-weight, easy to use and interfaces superbly with your desktop or notebook.
That said, I feel that I need to warn you that in 1 year, I have had to return my machine 4 times for the same repair. It freezes, won't shut off, then after a hard reset, won't turn back on. Sharp has replaced the battery, the main chip and the inverter, now is going to charge me [alot] to fix the machine! I was considering buying a new one, until I talked to my Dad who also bought one at my recomendation and found out that his is doing the same thing. Obviously, I didn't get a rare lemon.
Take a chance if you must, but I am steering clear of this wonderful little computer until they fix some major problems!

I just bought this thing from Amazon and all I can say is WOW!!!!

This is probably the best purchase I have ever made. This thing is everything I ever expected and more!! It's easy to use as well - even my wife can operate it!

I have to say, everyone out there who is thinking of buying this, stop thinking. I bought it and I am extremely happy with it the moment I powered this thing on. YOU ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY CANNOT GO WRONG WITH THIS PURCHASE! I GUARANTEE IT!!!

The reason i purchased these pencap/stylus thingers was A.) so i could have an extra styli around, and B.) to replace the pencaps that i lose ever so constantly. But i guess it was somewhat my fault for buying these, for within a week or purchase, i found myself purchasing a new set of four. I lost them just like regular pencaps. I think the handspring pen/styli is a much better way to go. It fits into the visor, and is much easier to keep track of.

Nice to have about in an emergency. Converts nearly any pen or pencil into a tol for your PDA. Nice bonus, they glow in the dark (pretty brightly too).

This is definitely one of those "Why didn't I think of that?" ideas. I've got them on pens in my cars, so I don't have to pull the stylus out all the time, and I have a couple on pens within easy reach around the house.

They are more comfortable than the stock stylus, and sharper. The fact that they are sharper bothered me at first, but they don't seem to scratch the screen (expecially if you use the WriteRight protectors)and the fine point makes them more accurate, expecially when trying to get between letters and words on your Palm.

A cheap accessory for yourself, and a cheap, useful gift for a friend with a PDA.

I've owned and used this for several months. I am happy overall but here is a list of things that bother me:

1) The romote control does light up which is good, but stays lit for only 7 seconds after you push a button. It takes MUCH MUCH longer than that for song titles to disply fully. Pushing a button to keep the light illuminted for another 7 seconds doesn't really help cuz it'll stop displaying the title and will display the info for whatever button you pressed instead.

2) The wire from the remote to the player is too short in my opinion (2 feet). It doesn't reach properly from the player inside your backpack or briefcase to your chest area where you'll probably want the remote clipped to. I also will sometimes keep the player under my car seat attached to my car stereo, and there too the wire is just a little too short.

3) The remote knob and buttons suck. They are too small and seem to play games with you. The diplay is too small as well. The entire remote and display should be much bigger! I would prefer to see the entire album title, artist name, and song title at the same time rather than small portions of only one of the above. Also, the display scratches too easily! And there is no pause button on the remote either. All very annoying.

4) The headphones that it came with have a good sound quality but they are a pain to use. One wire for one ear is much shorter than the other. One ear is always being tugged and you can't get comfortable.

5) The player does not always play MP3s in numerical or alphabetical order. If the tunes were converted to MP3 directly from a regular audio CD album, it seems to play in order. However, for people who often organize MP3 songs themselves individually on their home computer, most tracks will not play in order despite how you name them. Some tracks won't play at all! There is a small mention about this in the instruction manual. But really, this problem should not exist at all!

6) YOU CANNOT FORWARD OR REWIND WITHIN AN MP3 TRACK! You can only skip ahead to the next track or back to the previous track when listening to MP3s. This won't bother people too much who listen to 2-minute tracks, but for many people like me who listen to long tracks, this is really annoying!

7) The battery level indicator is not accurate. With my unit, it goes from full to 3/4 rather soon, but it can stay on empty (flashing danger) for another 12 hours.

8) I am sure I can think of more annoying things, but these are the big ones. However, like I said, overall the player itself is very good.

Everything was working great initially.
But two weeks later, the CD player is dead!
I tried it for a long while and finally decided that the rechargeable battery went bad since CD player still works on AC!
Why the battery died so fast? I remembered that we put it on charger for a whole night a few days ago! And this baby is so vulnerable to a very common human habit. Look! lots of people put cellphone on AC charger overnight and that doesn't kill their cellphones.

And the manual does say "battery may go flat if AC adaptor is kept on after battery is finished charging" and the battery is only in warranty for 10 DAYS!
And I searched lots of places even on www.panasonic.com, can't find any replacement of this new and special Ni-Mh type(Why not Ni-Cd?) battery.

It basically useless without its rechargeable battery.
Really disappointed!

This was bought as a gift and I absolutely love it! The Directions are easy to follow and it's perfect for those people that love to workout. Highly recommended!~