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[jm1234567890]

With the 624MHz XScale PXA270 released, PDAs are almost catching up to my destop in terms of megahertz

Technology moves too fast.

 

[velox]

lol, its pretty cool. Only around 600-700$ aswell, but no vga

 

[santaslayer]

PDA's aren't useful to us students.
Laptops are! :uhhuh:

 

[ToO LaZy ^*]

heheh...i have a pentium II laptop...but i've given up bringing it to school 3 years ago coz the piece of shit kept crashing and lost the work that i was doing at the time..
now it belongs to my dad!

 

[Collin]

Yeah, laptops rule. I'm about to purchase my first, 3.2GHz P4.

 

[jm1234567890]

Originally posted by JKDDragon
Yeah, laptops rule. I'm about to purchase my first, 3.2GHz P4.

lol, those laptops are known as nad heaters....

be sure to only use it on a table

 

[santaslayer]

Ouch!

 

[velox]

med students need pda's

 

[redslert]

Originally posted by wrx
med students need pda's

errrrr what for??
i know they have a massive timetable but what else...?

 

[Collin]

Originally posted by jm1234567890
lol, those laptops are known as nad heaters....

be sure to only use it on a table

Dammit, I was hoping to do stuff on my 1 hour bus trips.

Originally posted by wrx
med students need pda's

I think uni students in general need one, but the cost just generally isn't up to par with the pricing. Personally, I've got a iPAQ H2200 (around $400 - $600),

and I find it very useful as a diary, since I can allocate reminders, etc.

 

[santaslayer]

I find that most things a PDA can do can be done with a decent mobile phone.

 

[Collin]

Originally posted by santaslayer
I find that most things a PDA can do can be done with a decent mobile phone.

You must either have a very good phone, or that you've only seen very crap PDAs.

 

[santaslayer]

Originally posted by JKDDragon
You must either have a very good phone, or that you've only seen very crap PDAs.

What can a PDA do that a moby can't?

 

[jm1234567890]

Originally posted by santaslayer
What can a PDA do that a moby can't?

play high res movies

 

[jayz]

pda win against laptop hands down, first the price, second the functions (mp3, productivities, movies, film/camera, weight, battery life, compactness).

heard sony is gonna stop manufacturing clies coz they r focusn on the growing pda/fone market...

who would lyk to hold a chunk of metal to their head just to call ppl?

 

[redslert]

the word is LIKE please use it

ok please don't ever compare a pda to a laptop...it's like comparing a tiny little ant to an elephant

 

[velox]

sorry i meant Interns need pda's

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

PDA's are so handy ..
i record the lecture on mine.. and it means i dun miss anything..

For med students and interns.. there is a shitload of stuff available.. dictionaries and text books normally bout 4kg.. so its a space saver..esp when clinical refs are needed..

but like other uni students.. its for organising ure self

 

[Collin]

Originally posted by santaslayer
What can a PDA do that a moby can't?

Read my post again.

Originally posted by JKDDragon
You must either have a very good phone, or that you've only seen very crap PDAs.

I never claimed that a phone of sufficient calibre couldn't do something a PDA can't, but only implied that your definition of 'decent' is inaccurate.

Point is, in general 'decent' mobile phones, i.e ones of not high end quality simply can't do what most decent PDAs can, full stop.

Take a phone of 'decent' quality, one of the midrange. I highly doubt that it can run Microsoft Excel, run high resolution movies easily uploadable via a USB/firewire port, do word processing, perform as a mobile memory unit or be a general appointment organiser of equal ergonomics to a PDA.

'Phones' which can perform functions such as these are extremely rare, and are generally those hybrid/PDA phones, which obviously doesn't fit under the 'decent' phone category.

 

[santaslayer]

Thank you for taking the ltime and liberty to define 'decent phone' for me. Except you do have a good point about excel operations. I've never seen a phone like that as yet. I stand slightly-corrected.