I gotta Palm Tungsten.
Has a 'dock' with USB cable to connect to PC, should you wanna do a sync. Also I/R and wireless.
You can get Documents to Go which has all of the M/Soft Office on it.
I've always used iPaq's myself.
PocketPC, syncs perfectly with outlook.
I like my IPaq, the user support on the 'net is excellent and there are a lot of available hardware and software additions, but the Tungsten E will sync with Outlook and produce Excel and Word compatible files and the other features are similar to the IPAQ RX1710, all for £60 less.
I can't be doing without my XDA II, which does everything that you need, plus a bunch besides. Only problem is that you need to use the O2 network with it.
P.
Try the Medion on sale at Aldi
I have had one fot 12 months with no problems,
Its worth a look at b4 you buy
Fred (medic1)
I always tend to stick to Compaq for PDAs... s'one of the few things that they do right...
Well I have had a palm, and got irritated with the 16mb memory limit on the device (yes I know you can add cards, but still max programs in use of 16mb). My current phone runs windows mobile and I like it more than the palm, certainly been able to do more with it. Then again the palm was cheap, reasonably reliable, and did its job well. Only when I started to push limits on it did it irritate me.
Looking to my favourite friends, PC Pro (which just fell throught the front door) I see that the A-List windows PDA reccomended is the HP iPAQ hx47000 "It may be big compared to other PDAs, but the hx4700 provides near-notebook flexibility thanks to the amazing screen, software bundle, and ability to add 5GB of storage" £422 inc vat from
Much cheaper, and I expect more than good enough is the other A-Listed Palm device, the Palm Tungston E at £130 ( ) "With a 320 by 320 screen and all the multimedia features we've come to expect from the latest palms, and a sleek form reminiscent of the M500 series, the Tungston E would be a superb choice even without the agressive price"
Hope that helps.
I guess that there are "horses for courses" - How computer literate is he and what does he want to use it for?
I have a Palm based Clie, It looks great and is pretty easy to use, however, the later windows bsed PDA's look and feel like a mini PC and to that end are much more intuitive to use.
If all he wants to do is sync address books and diaries with his PC then a simple, relatively cheap PDA of either genre will work perfectly well. If he wants to play MP3's, write spread-sheets, add a GPS and navigate to wherever with it, then a top-end Windows based one is advisable.
If the latter is the case, Dell are doing some pretty good deals on their PDA's on their website.
Hope this helps.
M
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OF COURSE I know your iPaq - but haven't been allowed to use it, don't know what number it is and don't know what it's capable of (apart from a mad as frogs TomTom). 