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General Discussion / Palm Ux-50 To Zaurus = Happy?
« on: April 27, 2006, 09:26:12 pm »
Thanks for the replies and advice gents. To keep this going I will answer some of your questions....

Snappy....

The UX-50 will go portrait in tablet mode with the addition of a $10 application
I doubt I will need wifi and gps at the same time as I use gps when driving, so shouldn't really be surfing at that time...... Anyway would probably keep my UX-50 for use as in-car navigation system. It's resale value is not good.

iCruise......

My UX-50 is dying - the internal wifi is shot, the battery life is incredibly low, the speakers are dodgy (my fault I loosened something whilst opening up the UX-50 to try and fix the wifi)- I could buy a wifi memory stick and an extended battery but that would be AUD 300 or so to patch up what I have, and I can buy a C1000 for about AUD 600

bluedevils.....

I don't care about outlook sync, I just use my PDA not my desktop for PIM. I would like to be able to get my current palm data into the new PDA somehow though, once that is accomplished I am happy.

bam......

Yes the same bigruss from c4p. I have had palm for 6 years now, before that psion 5mx and revo. Feeling a little like a change, as well of course as being unimpressed with palms releases for the past few years.


all

Would buy from pricejapan so would need to flash it instantly as I am not a japanese speaker in the slightest. Hopefully this would be simple enough, or at least explained somewhere in simple steps :-D
Zaurii don't appear to lose much value though so if I buy one and we don't get on I can probably sell on ebay for not a huge loss

cheers,
Russ

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General Discussion / Palm Ux-50 To Zaurus = Happy?
« on: April 27, 2006, 03:21:13 am »
Hi all,

I am considering leaving my UX50 and getting a PPC or a zaurus. I like the sound of the zaurus line very much but have *no* linux experience at all. I am not stupid and use computers almost all day but do *no* programming at all apart from maybe hello world in html.... But I do fear using these complicated sounding beasts.
I would probably choose a C1000 or a C3100.
My uses are PIM, project management using a decent outliner, office suite stuff, personal financial stuff, email, web surfing via wifi and bluetooth phone. I also use the UX50 for (bluetooth) GPS navigation, I don't think I can do that with a zaurus in Australia? Media and games are nice but not essential.
Are the zaurus PIM software really as bad as is rumoured? I use datebook5 on palm and that does more than I need it to.
I think my uses would expand though once I find out what these little puppies are capable of. Have been reading these forums for the past couple of days and sounds like great product and community
When people talk about apps being slow on pdaXrom, how slow is slow? a few seconds or a minute or so?
Is it easy to learn to use these, for the start of course just installing ready-made apps, maybe compiling my own later I guess that should be simpler than programming.
Would love opinions from those who have left palm for zaurus (or WM2005)

cheers
Russ

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