I have had my PDA for around 4 months now, it performs very well, and battery life is very good.
It has a robust build (although I wouldn't recommend bouncing it on floors), it is very well constructed, and all parts of the casing fit well together. The stylus is held very well and is unlikely to get lost. The buttons fall easily to hand and are comfortable when in use. The screen is excellent with very high resolution and great picture and colour quality.
On the downside there seems to be a limited number of genuine 'Dell' accessories - a car cradle would be a good one, although it is supported well by third party suppliers. The connection lead for battery charging sticks out a long way and seems rather flimsy, but hasn't caused me any problems. On rare occasions it 'locks-up' and needs to be reset (this doesn't loose all user data), but this doesn't happen very often and the software can be re-flashed when updates become available.
The built in apps are very useful, has perfect synchronisation with outlook and all office apps, as would be expected. It is very simple and straight forward to use.
With the vast range of software available it can be used to do almost anything - GPS in car navigation, Play DIVX video files, to merely scratch the surface.
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I really wanted to know about a PDA when I read the review as many consumers will and your review didn't actually tell me what it does which would have interested me enormously. No idea what a stylus is at all and needed answers to questions that were not in the review. I can see you are pretty new around here and would suggest you read around a bit, and then edit, and I shall come back and rerate if you leave me a message in my guestbook. Rachel X
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