sub £300 Pocket PCs

[Bunjiweb]

Which should i go for? I know nothing about them

It needs to have Pocket PC Windows 2002 or 2003 and have lots of features including vid/mp3 playback and lots of organisation/office tools.... all this i am pretty sure is possible from the following but please prove me if i am wrong.

Viewsonic Pocket PC V35

http://www.dabs.com/products/prod-in...quicklinx=2HJY


Asustek MyPal 620

http://www.dabs.com/products/prod-in...quicklinx=2PPT


Compaq Ipaq H1930/en 64MB WPC 2003

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=51239


DellTM AXIM X5 Performance Handheld

http://www.euro.dell.com/countries/u...erformance.htm


Toshiba e350 Pocket PC

http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?...05335&asource=


Cheers!

Ben

[joshwa]

i've got a Dell Axim X5 (300mhz version)

and video playback wasn't really quick enough, perhaps the 400mhz version would be? mp3 playback was fine though.

[Bunjiweb]

what are they like? They look a little bit plasticy...

I think the Asustek and the Viewsonic ones both are pretty feature packed, look good and are quite cheap but i dunno if dunno bout the build quality and who i should stay away from in the Pocket PC world.

Ben

[NicktheNorse]

my vote goes to the iPAQ - i have had most of those pocket pcs in my hand the ipaq beats the others hands down, especially now that in the 1930 the SD slot is IO compatible.

[joshwa]

well, they're alright. some people here have a Toshiba, and whilst they look okay, she managed to break the screen.

there's also a Dell 400mhz one that seems to crash a lot so we're getting it replaced by dell. unfortunately they don't seem to have "the part" so they haven't got one to us yet, and we've waited nearly a week. but other people with the 400mhz version haven't had any problems, and i haven't had any problems with my 300mhz one...

the only problems with them are that if you forget to charge them , and then the backup battery goes, all your data's gone that's stored in it. (unless you've got a memory card that remembers)

I currently use my blackberry the most as it's synced to outlook through GPRS which is great.

another guy i work with can sync with outlook through GPRS with his XDA... so they might be worth considering...? (if you want that kind of feature)

i can take some pics if you want

[joshwa]

here's some pics: quality's not that great as this fuji a202's not that good at close ups...

blackberry and dell

dell

[Bunjiweb]

blackberry doesnt have Windows OS... Dell one looks quite nice actually, but the price of the Asustek, Ipaq and the Viewsonic are tempting me still atm

Ben

[joshwa]

i'd try and make sure that if it's got an Intel chip, to get a 400mhz one, as the 400mhz one seems noticably quicker than the 300mhz one.

[TiG]

Josh,

I think I saw an article the other day which meant you can overclock the 300mhz axim to 400mhz without issue.

I'll try and remember where i saw it, but i think it sounded pretty easy.

TiG

[Bunjiweb]

think i'm gunna go for the Asustek one once i've sorted some stuff out etc.

Ben