Dell Axim x30 & Mobile 2005

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not for x30, only for x50 series

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http://www.brighthand.com/article/ [...] _2005-2006

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<harry_pairatestes@longshot.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.brighthand.com/article/ [...] _2005-2006

I know this is a MS newsgroup on an MS news server but I'm going ot say this
anyway. It amazes me to no end that MS has such a fit when web sites post
reviews, screen shots, news leaks etc about upcoming products from MS. If
you follow the link above back to the source for Mobeil 2005 it is gone.

Now for an opinion. As far as the PPC goes I have really moved to using it
on all my trips instead of my laptop however it has some serious shortfalls
which unless 2005 tackles these issues there is little reason to upgrade:

1. Email signing and encrypting. If you used encrypted email in
Outlook and try to read those on the PPC your going to get a blank email
with a mime attactment. This is a real problem in our group as many of our
emails are encrypted between managment.

2. Active Sync of multiple Inbox folders with multiple rules for
each. Most of us use subfolders in Outlook anymore and in my case I really
need to see all the email in certain folders and only a very limited number
in other folders.

3. Not directly releated to MS: Faster CPU and More ram but keep
the cost down. Right now to get a fully loaded PPC your looking at a cost of
just under a cheap notebook. It quickly defeats the purpose to have a PPC
when it cost what a notebook cost.

4. Better integration into the entire MS product line of Office
applications, server apps, etc.

It also seems to me that not going to a standard platform the PPC OS is
going to be crippled in it's growth. Having each OEM "tweak" the ROM for
their PPC reminds me of the days long before we had the "standard" PC.