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It is nice to have a reliable memory where by I dont need a back up battery and I dont loose data if I totally run out of power.. I had an iPaq and it was most annoying when it did that. Plus the dell is many times quicker.

This is one reason why I switched from Windows CE to PalmOS a few years ago. I've used various PPC operating systems over the years and they've gotten better and better. I bought myself a PPC2002 iPAQ Hsomething-or-other, I think it was a 3950. Used the new (at the time) 400 MHz Intel processor. Lovely screen, lovely sound, awful navigation, poor reliability. I stuck with it for a year because I also continued to use my very old monochrome AAA battery Palm. :)

My last Windows Mobile 2003 device, the Acer n30, was good enough to be usable[1] but by then I had a suite of PalmOS specific applications that I use.

It's funny how people's experiences differ, I wonder what I do differently. My Windows CE machines have generally been 100% reliable - any crashes are down to running experimental software. My Palm TC crashed constantly (though my Sony Clie UX50 was very reliable indeed).

Worst thing I've had was a Nokia 9210. Symbian/EPOC is a bugridden POS. However, people seem to tolerate it in phones ;)

Richard

Me too.

I found that when using the supplied ("ROM") applications with my Velo 500 it worked a treat. Anything else, pot luck really.

The iPAQ wasn't reliable with the standard PIM stuff, much to my annoyance. Charlie's was worse. Worse if you were editing notes in an appointment and it crashed you lost the edits, whereas PalmOS edits and saves as one, so you don't lose anything*.

My PalmOS devices have been curious. My IIIxe was as reliable as a BIC. It worked then it stopped. The odd crash through doing stupid stuff on it.

My m515 was unstable for a bit then improved. So too was my m130, m500. My first Tungsten W was a real pain and I had three fatal hard resets. Then it worked... perfectly until I dropped it. The replacement worked just great too.

The Tungsten T2 was unstable for a week then it worked too. Now I do all sorts to it such as change the clock speed and whatnot, but it keeps on going. It last crashed, come to think of it, in the USA.

Charlie's Tungsten T3 has just worked as well...

I've often wondered why some people get by and some don't. I suppose some people just do the basics on a device rather than push it further. I've stopped playing with what it can do and now it's more a tool - but it's no more stable than it was.

I'd agree, but surely running BetaPlayer to display 700Mb AVIs, or PocketArtist 3.1 to edit a 50Mb file (on a computer with 64Mb Shared RAM), or even having CoPilot and TomTom installed on the same system, are pushing it a little.

I'm not saying the iPaq never crashes, but it's by far a regular thing - I'm surprised when it happens, and it is usually attributable to something I did (like installing WM5 bluetooth stacks to use high-quality stereo audio over bluetooth).

And the Palm TC used to crash if I looked at it funny. I don't consider it to be typical of Palm (my Clie really was very reliable), but it definitely put me off.

Richard

I've speculated that some hardware and operating systems cope with a push much better than others. Charlie didn't push her iPAQ at all and it crashed of its own accord.

Heh I've stopped doing this now that I have the Tungsten T2 how I want it. I run my PIM, do most of my website work on it, GPS navigation and I used to use it for OBD-II duties until the crash.

Strange. I'd read that the Tungsten C wasn't too reliable, which put me off. Pity: decent capacity battery, WiFi, it could have ruled the world. :)

Waiting for dell to add a working stack to the X51v, Then I'm going to rip appart a pair of headphones and intergrate it with my car stereo.

I've seen that done - there's a broadcomm (IIRC) stack you can chuck onto it, if you google. It does work on my iPaq but I suspected it of making a storage card go offline, so I removed some of the associated files.

Richard

Doesn't work - there is no known solution as yet (for the x51v anyway)

Ed