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: 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: 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 III or m100 Series PalmPix.PRC 61k Approx. 100k per picture Desktop: Windows Systems: Windows 95, 95B (OS R/2), 98, 98SE, 2000, NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3 or higher, PC with a minimum 486 processor, Minimum of 16 MB RAM, Minimum of 20 MB hard disk space, CD-ROM drive, Color Monitor
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The AIBO Entertainment Robot ERS-210 is Sony’s 2nd generation robotic dog. The first version (ERS-110) which was released in June of 1999, sold for $2500 in limited quantities. This new version has been made readily available to the public at a much lower price of $1500 and is available in Black, Gold or Silver. AIBO
Product Requirements: Device: Handspring Visor Prism The Flip Top case for the Handspring Visor Prism is another high quality leather case from Vaja. This case is available in two versions. A magnetic closure version and a snap closure version. Each version is also available with or without a belt clip. A nice variety of leather
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Julie’s Thoughts Judie’s Thoughts I skipped Spring COMDEX 2000 for various reasons, but decided to attend this year’s conference to see if any new gadgets or gizmos would be announced. I invited Judie to attend with me so I could finally meet her in person and so I could have another Gadgeteer with me to
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Product Requirements: Device: Any PDA equipped with a Compact Flash Type I or II Expansion Slot Are you using a PDA that has a Compact Flash (CF) expansion slot, but the card you want to use just happens to be a PCMCIA Card (PC Card) instead? If so, you might have thought that the only
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Product Requirements: Device: PalmPilot Personal, PalmPilot Professional, IBM WorkPad, Palm III, Palm V, Palm Vx, Palm VII? 100K+ free RAM Desktop: N/A Introduction Robots just might be the next big thing, hobby robots are at the “Apple II” stage right now. Between the $2500 Sony Aibo and BattleBots, robots are starting to get a lot
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