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Anonymous   01-29-2005 at 02:47:04 AM

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Hi My Dada
is after a new PDA He's had an Olivetti DaVinci (i think it was a Royal
DaVinci in the US) and a Palm Pilot
which he has liked all though he found it annoying that the Palm lost its
memory when you replaced the batteries (i think the Olivetti
had a watch battery for mantaining RAM during battery changeover.

He is looking to upgrade but I think most modern PDAs (Colour) wont have any
where near the battery life of his old B/W PDA's
I think waht he's looking for is something that will keep his adresses and
phone numbers around without having to change batteries or be recharged
every 7 days or whatever possibly with the capability to back up to some
memory card or other

Any ideas (I think Sony did a Black and White PDA which wa supposed to be
quite good.)

Any Ideas

TIA

Pete H.

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Anonymous   01-30-2005 at 03:57:51 PM
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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:47:04 +0000, Pete Hewitt wrote:

> Hi My Dada
> is after a new PDA He's had an Olivetti DaVinci (i think it was a Royal
> DaVinci in the US) and a Palm Pilot
> which he has liked all though he found it annoying that the Palm lost its
> memory when you replaced the batteries (i think the Olivetti
> had a watch battery for mantaining RAM during battery changeover.
>
> He is looking to upgrade but I think most modern PDAs (Colour) wont have any
> where near the battery life of his old B/W PDA's
> I think waht he's looking for is something that will keep his adresses and
> phone numbers around without having to change batteries or be recharged
> every 7 days or whatever possibly with the capability to back up to some
> memory card or other
>
> Any ideas (I think Sony did a Black and White PDA which wa supposed to be
> quite good.)
>
> Any Ideas
>
> TIA
>
> Pete H.

Well addresses and phones is more of a basic PIM(Personal Info Manager_
than a PDA(Personal Data Assistant), though
most PDAs have PIM software.
He could do well enough with a 1-3MB model from Sharp, as that's both a
large number of contacts and all of them have serial or USB sync with
Outlook (LookOut! You have another virus! if you use it for email, or even
online sometimes.) Otherwise Palm still makes B&W PDAs, although gone are
the days of dropping a set of AAAs in it and having it last a month, the
new models use Li-Ion batteries that must be charged more often(A couple
weeks, IIRC)

Sharp, AFAIK uses button-cell backup in most of their PIMs as they do the
Zaurus line of pocket computers.

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Anonymous   02-22-2005 at 06:56:42 PM
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Pete Hewitt wrote:

> Hi My Dada
> is after a new PDA He's had an Olivetti DaVinci (i think it was a Royal
> DaVinci in the US) and a Palm Pilot
> which he has liked all though he found it annoying that the Palm lost its
> memory when you replaced the batteries (i think the Olivetti
> had a watch battery for mantaining RAM during battery changeover.
>
> He is looking to upgrade but I think most modern PDAs (Colour) wont have any
> where near the battery life of his old B/W PDA's
> I think waht he's looking for is something that will keep his adresses and
> phone numbers around without having to change batteries or be recharged
> every 7 days or whatever possibly with the capability to back up to some
> memory card or other
>
> Any ideas (I think Sony did a Black and White PDA which wa supposed to be
> quite good.)
>
> Any Ideas
>
> TIA
>
> Pete H.
>
>
THe Fujitsu Siemens LOOX 720 has a good battery life and has a half hour
backup built in if you choose to changs the battery.
Steven Kettle

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