Need PDA recommendations

[skuzgib]

Hi all

A friend of mine needs a PDA, I have no idea about these things so I thought I'd come here for help

These are the things he needs to do:

* Basic image editing - line drawings and stuff, he's an archaeologists so he'd use it to draw rough plans while on site
* Basic office functionality - word, excel etc
* Browse t'intarweb wirelessly, check emails and stuff
* Synchronise with his laptop
* Be able to hook up one of those keyboard thingummies, for use in libraries when doing research
* Also needs car charger and docking cradle
* Be able to connect GPS would also be nice

Budget of ~£250 give or take.

Can anyone recommend anything?

Cheers

[Saracen]

I'm out of touch with current models, but for the GPS side, my preference was to find a model with both SD card and CompactFlash slots. You can then use SD card for data, and a hard-connected CF GPS receiver. That avoids using either a cabled GPS receiver, or a Bluetooth one (with both the cost and connectivity issues of the latter).

Mine's an iPaq 2110, which fitted my needs perfectly, but I doubt you can still get them.

[dave87]

The top (or close to top) Dell Axim - should do everything you want...

[tickedon]

The Dell Axim v51v - it retails at £320, but, Dell usually have offers on bringing it down to £250-270 (£268 atm). Only thing it won't do out the box is connect to the internet - you'd need a bluetooth mobile or something to get a internet connection unless there's going to be wifi around.

Got one myself, great thing. Quite happily works with my bluetooth mobile in my pocket browsing the web

[autopilot]

Most of the new HTC models coming out with GPS built in, should be available of the mobile networks (Re branded as Vario, XDA etc) soon.

[skuzgib]

Thanks for that guys, he went for the DELL in the end - should arrive soon