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Product Requirements: Specifically made to fit in the silo of the Palm III, V/500, And VII series; however, will work with any touch-screen PDA I don’t know how many times I have reviewed a seemingly excellent PDA case for The Gadgeteer; only to find that when I tried to insert a full-size pen/stylus combination in […]
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Device: Palm III, IIIx, IIIc, VII The Pentopia Chameleon Stylus Pen from Pilot (available at Stylus Central and other retailers) is a very well made and feature-packed stylus. It has a spring-loaded tip, ink pen, and reset pen all in one. It also comes in three versions: Palm III series, Palm V series, and Handspring
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Product Requirements: Device: Any touch screen device The Platinum Pen Zepher Mini Trio which is available at Stylus Central and other retailers is a nifty little pen / stylus combo that is available in 4 different colors: Black, Red, Blue and Gun Metal. You may have guessed from the word Trio in the name, that
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Device: Any touch screen device The Jornik Duo Penstylus which is available at Styluscentral.com and other retailers is an understated pen stylus combo that comes in two clip styles. One version has a standard metal pocket clip and the other has a plastic pocket clip that can also dock inside the Palm V or m500
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Device: Compaq iPAQ: Naked, or with the style pack sleeve, the CF sleeve, the PCMCIA sleeve, or the Dual PCMCIA Expansion Sleeve I am the first to admit that I am one of the biggest PDA peripheral junkies on the face of the planet. Since my daily driver is the Compaq iPAQ, it is only
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The Palm m505… Wow, people have been dreaming about this device for a couple years now. I know, because I was one of them. When my main PDA was the Palm V, I used to imagine what it would be like to have a color unit in that same form factor. That was in 1999
The award for sexiest Palm PDA has long been held by the Palm V/Vx. Well, now there are 2 new Palm Vx replacements available that might get people excited all over again. There’s the m500 for people who don’t want color (are they insane?!) and the m505 for those that do. This review is for
Product Requirements: Device: Pocket PC handheld device, Windows CE #.0 or higher, Approx 300K of memory + memory for databases Desktop: Windows 95, 98, NT 4.51, ME or 2000, 2.0 Megs of free Hard Disk Space, 32 Megs of RAM recommended, ActiveSync 3.1 or higher. When I first began my personal migration to using a
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Product Requirements: Device: Palm V series Orbino leather cases are to the Palm V series PDA as a Rolex watch is to your wrist. Pure unadulterated luxury. These cases are hand-crafted by master artisans in Italy and are made of full-grain calfskin generally reserved for the finest Italian shoes. The Orbino cases are made by
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Product Requirements: Any touch-screen PDA Upon first glance, the Quill Slant-Top Stylus, available from Stylus Central, looks like a simple twist-action stylus. As I found out, looks can be deceiving. I was presented with the blue model for this review, it is also available in Black. This Quill model, also called the 250S, is actually
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Product Requirements: Device: Handspring Visor, Visor Deluxe, Platinum, or Prism CFCardInfo.prc 5k FAFileMv.prc 30k FAFormat.prc 5k FALib.prc 28k FAUtil.prc 19k The CompactFlash Adapter from InnoPocket is a Springboard module that allows you to use CompactFlash memory cards as alternative storage on your Handspring Visor PDA. This adapter is only for memory cards. The hardware/software is
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Product Requirements: Device: Fits most current PDA’s with dimensions under 5.45″ (138.68mm) tall x 3″ (76.22mm) wide x .72″ (18.29mm) thick The PDA BodyGuard line of products by Tech Media was shown not so long ago at CES. One of the accessories that caught my eye while reading various reports from that show was a
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Product Requirements: Device: Palm V series The same company that is world renowned for their pocket knifes, is now manufacturing a line of PDA cases. Available from StylusCentral, the Code V made by Swiss Army is a Palm V series specific case made of black Italian fine grained leather. This case has a classy understated
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Product Requirements: Any touch-screen PDA If you are looking for a pen and stylus combination that looks sharp enough to carry to your next board meeting – but that won’t break the bank; here is something you should take a look at. The ttools Premierpoint™ Stylus/Pen, available from Stylus Central, has a chrome look that
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Product Requirements: Device: Compaq iPAQ, Casio Cassiopeia, HP Jornada (if using PocketPVS module) Desktop: Windows 98/ME/2000 (Windows 95/NT currently not supported) Pentium II-350MHz or faster PC, with at least 1 GB of hard drive space, 16 MB of RAM, a TV tuner or video capture card Picture if you will, you’re in a boring meeting
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Product Requirements: Your nose, and a computer screen in front of it While Julie and I were at Comdex, we saw lots of interesting products that looked like they might add quality to our existences (I say that with my tongue planted firmly in my cheek). One of the more interesting products that we found
Product Requirements: Desktop: Windows 95, 98 The ECHO PDA from Oregon Scientific is a REX-like device. As a PC card sized PDA, the REX became popular in 1997. An updated version named the REX Pro was released a year or so later. There have been subsequent other upgrades with the REX 6000 by Xircom being
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The QCP 6035 is the 2nd generation Pilot Smartphone from Kyocera. It comes about a year and a half after Kyocera acquired Qualcomm’s mobile phone business. Having owned both the Qualcomm pdQ 800 and the new Kyocera, I can compare the two in this review. My first impression of the QCP 6035 was: Wow! It’s
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Product Requirements: Device: Palm V series The styluX stylus from PDAEX is a Palm V series stylus (Palm III series, Sony Clie, and Handspring Visor versions also available). It’s made of all metal (except for the tip of course). This stylus fits in either silo of a Palm V series device. The body of the
Product Requirements: Device: Almost all PDAs UPDATED 04/25/01 – Several points to make note of, updates to my original comments will be in PINK….Judie For those PDA owners out there that are just getting started, and for those of you that are wanting to try something different; Tech Media has come out with a new line
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