New PDA on the shopping list

"Must be faster than Lucy's hx4700"

Now that's funny!!! Keeping up with the Robbos?

i believe pda's dont have good battery life.....

i have O2 and the thing is a pain in the butt....wish i never bought it
locks up 0nce or twice a week.....also 3/4 times a week i can hear caller but they cant hear me..
bet it the pda drains the battery faster than the the 4.7
its a pain pain pain pain
camera is a usefull as a fart in a lift
only good thing i can say about the O2 is the excel and word programes

G`day, might want to check out this site for PDA comparisons,wizz bang gadgets and features etc.
www.PDAgold.com
I have a HP 5400 Ipaq with the Navman 3450 GPS sleeve. Only really use it when travelling for work in capital cities or to other towns I don`t know (it`s pretty much just a street and road map for the whole of Australia, no good if travelling off the main roads) . The Streetsmart GPS software on mine tends to lock up after switching off the PDA and back on again. Only way I seem to be able to fix it is to disconnect the sleeve, do a soft reset, allow to reboot then reconnect the sleeve and reopen the program.
I bought a new replacement battery when I got the PDA (PDA was second hand, from Ebay) and at the best I only get 2.5 to 3 hours out of it when using the GPS. Without using the GPS, I get about 3.5 to 4 hours. Pretty much average to most PDA`s, better off buying the car charger and saving the hassle (mine did run so flat once that when I recharged it, the PDA had lost all additional software and files I has put onto it, including the GPS software).

Cheers,
Darren

Bonz I am in the same position. I am going on a 2 month tour April\May and can't afford to be out of the email loop for so long. I wanted a PDA that had a CDMA phone so there were few choices. The I Mate EVDOwas the major player available thru Telstra on a $100 phone plan for 2 years. Looked good but complex unit. I already have a good digital cam so don't need one in a PDA and I already have a simple funtional CDMA phone. So what I really need is a simple effective uncomplicated inexpensive way to download email and take notes while on tour of an evening. The XDA Atom looked good but no CDMA. Ended up walking away confused, any ideas or reccommendations. Cheers Rob

I have my old Sony VAIO laptop linked up to my Nokia CDMA phone . Works Ok , but it proved difficult for an old fart like me to set it all up correctly .

Bonz, Heather has a 624mhz Dell Axim which is fast and has a Bluetooth GPSt for transmitter. S for software you probably know of. It seems to have good battery life and you can get bigger and replacement batteries for it. Powered and have a plug in amplifier too in the one system. The screen stick-on-er would be better replaced with a Ram mount.

Steer clear of the HP Ipaq HX4700. Too many bluetooth problems with it. The longest I've been able to connect to either TomTom, Ozie or GPSDash has been two hours with about 30 mins being the standard. Keeps requiring soft resets. Apparently it has crap bluetooth. Lots of write ups on the internet about it if you know what your looking for. Most reviews don't pick it up because they don't try it with A bluetooth GPS.

Readywelder II is much more betterer than the BT 338