Gear Diary

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I am so frustrated! Perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia, I was completely prepared to love my new iPAQ 5455. I wanted to start using all of the accessories that I already had from previous versions, and I was even ready to move my Tungsten to “Second Banana” status. Unfortunately though, it seems like

My 5455 was DEAD this morning! I woke up, tried to turn it on and wasn’t successful. I pressed the reset button and still nothing. So I thought maybe the battery had died during the night, so I put it in the charger. The charge light would not come on. I tried pluging the AC

The Vaja Holiday Gift Certificate Give-away is now closed. Judie and I will pick the 53 winners and post them here tomorrow (Saturday). Good luck to the 557 of you that entered!

Hey folks! This just a reminder that today is the last day you will have an opportunity to enter the Vaja holiday gift certificate giveaway drawing! Judie and I will conduct a random drawing after midnight tonight (Friday) and will post the winners tomorrow (Saturday). There are 53 prizes to be claimed, and so far

I think Julie jinxed me! The other day she asked if I was getting an occasional memory error when I tried to use the WiFi on my 5455. Well, at the time I had only seem that error once…now it seems to be happening with alarming frequency. I know I have plenty of memory available

I started a poll on the Bulletin Board the other day. So far there’s not been much activity on it. Please visit and cast your vote. Your comments will help us see what you the users want most out of this site. We’ve been working behind the scenes to make the site faster and easier

Here is a Christmas Gift for all of us from Clickgamer Technologies, the maker of Cropped Out (a game I have been enjoying for the last couple of days): A FREE copy of Snowed In! The object of the game is to “Collect as many presents as you can and stop the evil Grinch from

Just wanted to update anyone that might be interested… I received my 5455 yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon. I’ve had no time to play with it yet though. Darned day job is getting in the way lately! You’d think they want me to actually earn my pay! What are they thinking? Anyway, I’ve charged it up, synced

This is definitely one of the cooler things I have heard of: sillycat from MyPDACafe wrote me to let me know about a “Christmas Tree” on their site that we are all welcome to contribute to.In his words, “We are running an X’mas tree decorating “campaign” to celebrate the coming xmas, drop by if you

Typical! I have a dead pixel in the lower-middle of my 5455’s screen, the cover-pack that came with it has already started wearing a groove/scratch in the side, and so far the battery life appears to S*CK…and that’s with the Bluetooth and WiFi turned off. :0/ I am going to have to do a controlled

Shock! I didn’t get mine… I will have it tomorrow though… supposedly… maybe… hopefully… not holding breath… Been there. Done that. Turned blue.

I just got my iPAQ 5455! I am loading programs as it charges. First impression? It’s not as heavy as I expected, the HP branding seems odd (all my other iPAQs have been Compaq’s) and the screen is “to die for!” More later… :0)

Just got off the phone with Mobile Planet…they received the new iPAQs today, so Julie and I should have our 5455s tomorrow! YAY! :0)

After 4 yrs or more of using UBBS as our discussion software, we’ve made the jump to VBBS. This new board is now online and ready for your comments, opinions, etc. It’s totally empty at the moment, so be gentle :o) The current UBBS review comment forums will remain read and writeable. But, all new

Well, it was too good to be true. I just called Mobile Planet, and they are hoping to get their shipment of new iPAQs in on Monday or Tuesday… :0

Not to be outdone by my partner in crime, I ordered the 5450 also. We’ll see if it actually arrives tomorrow. I’m not holding my breath! ;o) I’m pretty excited to check this one out. With built-in Bluetooth, WiFi and the thermal fingerprint reader, it’s going to be a cool gadget!

I’ve got someone to write the Vaja NX case review. Thanks to everyone that wrote in!

I just put in my order for the HP 5450…I should have it Saturday. I got mine from Mobile Planet – evidently they will have & ship them tomorrow; while the HP site is still saying “out of stock.” Once again, it appears as if there is a model number difference depending on where you

I am an e-book addict. By now, I think most of you know that. It is no exaggeration for me to say that I have well over a hundred books that I have paid for at peanut-press. Some have been great, and some have been a total waste of money. Some days, I wish that