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And so I come to what I believe to be the cheapest Palm computer - correct me if I'm wrong. I paid £119.99 but these are even cheaper now. Let's get straight to the point. This was designed to be cheap and succeeded. As a consequence it was taken in huge numbers and yet ... I'm not quite ... Read review
Want to make your handheld as unique as you are? Snap on this colorful faceplate cover to ... more
give your Palm m100 handheld a whole new look. Its eye-catching colour and easy snap-on design make it the perfect way to create a fresh look for your handheld. And you wont need any special tools to add or remove the faceplate.
Postage & Packaging:£3.91 Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Change the look of your handheld in seconds. Want to make your handheld as unique as you ... more
are? Snap on this colorful faceplate cover to give your Palm m100 handheld a whole new look. Its eye-catching colour and easy snap-on design make it the perfect way to create a fresh look for your handheld. And you wont need any special tools to add or remove the faceplate.
Postage & Packaging:£3.91 Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Dont get caught without a stylus again! This convenient multi-pack lets you keep ... more
replacement styli in your briefcase, car, home, or office. Be prepared for anything. Each handy pack contains three black plastic styli for the Palm m100 handheld.
Postage & Packaging:£3.91 Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
This Brand New replacement battery is equivalent to your original battery. Manufactured ... more
with top quality cells using the most up-to-date technology to give a long lasting charge with no memory effect.All our Batteries conform to ISO9001, RoHS and CE certification. All our prices include VAT and you will receive a VAT invoice.CodeCS-PM105SLTypeNi-MHVoltage3.7Capacity7 50Warranty12 MonthsEquivalent Battery Codes :
Postage & Packaging:£2.99 Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
This Brand New replacement battery is equivalent to your original battery. Manufactured ... more
with top quality cells using the most up-to-date technology to give a long lasting charge with no memory effect.All our Batteries conform to ISO9001, RoHS and CE certification. All our prices include VAT and you will receive a VAT invoice.CodeCS-PM105SLTypeNi-MHVoltage3.7Capacity7 50Warranty12 MonthsEquivalent Battery Codes :
Postage & Packaging:£2.99 Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
This Brand New replacement battery is equivalent to your original battery. Manufactured ... more
with top quality cells using the most up-to-date technology to give a long lasting charge with no memory effect.All our Batteries conform to ISO9001, RoHS and CE certification. All our prices include VAT and you will receive a VAT invoice.CodeCS-PM105SLTypeNi-MHVoltage3.7Capacity7 50Warranty12 MonthsEquivalent Battery Codes :
Postage & Packaging:£2.99 Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Dont get caught without a stylus again! This convenient multi-pack lets you keep ... more
replacement styli in your briefcase, car, home, or office. Be prepared for anything. Each handy pack contains three black plastic styli for the Palm m100 handheld.
Postage & Packaging:£3.91 Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Want to make your handheld as unique as you are? Snap on this colorful faceplate cover to ... more
give your Palm m100 handheld a whole new look. Its eye-catching colour and easy snap-on design make it the perfect way to create a fresh look for your handheld. And you wont need any special tools to add or remove the faceplate.
Postage & Packaging:£3.91 Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Change the look of your handheld in seconds. Want to make your handheld as unique as you ... more
are? Snap on this colorful faceplate cover to give your Palm m100 handheld a whole new look. Its eye-catching colour and easy snap-on design make it the perfect way to create a fresh look for your handheld. And you wont need any special tools to add or remove the faceplate.
Postage & Packaging:£3.91 Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Handheld - 128 MB RAM - Screen: 4 in inch - Display: TFT active matrix - CPU: XScale PXA310 - Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi - Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0, Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Classic
Advantages: Cheap - runs well on AAA batteries Disadvantages: Mono - small memory - basically a diary
...believe to be the cheapest Palm computer - correct me if I'm wrong. I paid £119.99 but these are even cheaper now. Let's get straight to the point. This was designed to be cheap and succeeded. As a consequence it was taken in huge numbers and yet ... I'm not quite sure why in hindsight.
When I first dabbled with hand held computers they came with keyboards and the quality of the keyboard was the selling point. Everybody remember Psion ... ...recognition then. Now of course Palm have taught this system to so many that even though true handwriting recognition is here they still rely on this strange language.
So what can it do? No, you can't write a novel. You'd be pushed to write an opinion for Ciao. Basically with a little patience from the person giving the details you can record contacts. You can plan meetings.
So, in 16?? (fill in the blanks if you know) Samuel Pepys wrote a huge diary that stands still as a historical document of the time. In the same century, Daniel Defoe toured around the whole of England and Wales and his account of his journey in similar style stands as a historical record of the country. (Daniel Defoe makes for a great read - buy it and spot you home town.)
In four hundred years what will they find to reconstruct the history of our time? Not much really ... paper and pen are giving way to digital systems of recording that whilst offering greater capacity in a smaller space also offer a temporary storage medium that is wiped clear and reused. And if a diary survived what would it read - well, a list of dry and pointless appointments that record only the tedium of twenty first century living no doubt.
And so I come to what I believe to be the cheapest Palm computer - correct me if I'm wrong. I paid £119.99 but these are even cheaper now. Let's get straight to the point. This was designed to be cheap and succeeded. As a consequence it was taken in huge numbers and yet ... I'm not quite sure why in hindsight.
When I first dabbled with hand held computers they came with keyboards and the quality of the keyboard was the selling point. Everybody remember Psion - still around if you look hard. Now, Palm was a new system. A touchscreen and a tiny pen meant opening and closing programs was easy and a tiny box at the bottom of the screen promised handwriting recognition. This was before its time and the fact that you need to learn a whole new language (graffiti) is testament to the problems of handwriting recognition then. Now of course Palm have taught this system to so many that even though true handwriting recognition is here they still rely on this strange language.
So what can it do? No, you can't write a novel. You'd be pushed to write an opinion for Ciao. Basically with a little patience from the person giving the details you can record contacts. You can plan meetings.
Mmmm ... yep ... that's it.
When I ran a Psion 5MX I wrote articles that were published. With this toy (and I chose that word carefully) you write diary appointments. Despite the usual suite of Palm software this is not a gadget that inspires.
The processor is slower than all other Palm devices and it comes with a measly 8Mb RAM. This means that it isn't even really worth buying the keyboard that would allow the device to be used for a greater range of uses. It does come with a docking station and software for Windows and Mac connectivity. The software works well and the diary synchronises effortlessly with Outlook.
This is like getting a 1980s phone as sold by DelBoy out in front of friends and colleagues mind. When they all sit in front of neat looking devices wrapped in brushed aluminium and exchanging colour photos to go with the contacts list you will be stuck with a cheap clack plastic casing and a screen that even the least fashion conscious would hide.
OVERALL If you want to spend about eighty notes on a diary then this is for you. If you want the functionality of a decent handheld computer then I would leave alone. Mine - gathering dust while I hanker after the days of chunkey handhelds with decent keyboards.
Thanks for taking the time to read this opinion and I look forward to any comments you might leave - Phil
Advantages: It is everything that you need to be organised in life if you cannot afford a Secretary Disadvantages: Changing the battery is a trifle troublesome, you need to do it within one minute.
...me explain: The PALM M105 is a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), which is targeted at the middle price market, it costs £149.99. When you open the box you get: A PDA,
Stylus
Battery, Cdrom, Instruction booklet Cradle with a serial connector for your PC.
I purchased another Cradle for my home PC at £24.99. In addition I bought a protective Leather Case that allows me to attach it to my belt if I want to look like a pillock! That cost £19. But seriously ... ...BRIEF OVERVIEW OF COMPONENTS
The PALM m105 has a display window 4.5cm X 5cm. This is where you read all your data and input new data. You use the stylus to tap the software icons displayed on the display window or desktop to open the software utilities and basically this how the whole unit operates. The following gives details of what packages come with the base model and some other detail on what other goodies I downloaded from the Web and installed ...
clanmac4 24.08.2001
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...old. The PALM M105 is a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). When you open the box you get: A PDA,
Stylus
2 AAA batteries Cdrom, an easy to follow Instruction booklet Cradle with a serial connector for your PC which again is easy to follow. The PALM m105 has a display window where you read the data and input new data using the stylus. There are various tools which you can use on your handheld computer.
GRAFFITI TOOL
You can enter information directly ... ...your stylus or open the PALM software that comes with the PDA and enter information directly and transfer. HOTSYNC
This utility backs up all the data on your PDA and downloads to the PC, which is great should you forget to put in new batteries and need to restore your data. You only get a minute to change teh batteries before memory is lost. DATE BOOK
Fancy name for a diary. Will beep if you have an appointment.
NOTE PAD
Quick way to scribble ...
rachelkanga 28.12.2004
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Advantages: Cheap, fast, reliable, good software, big memory Disadvantages: None
The recent introduction on the Palm m105 will have a lot of people wondering if now is the time to ditch the old diary and switch to a handheld. OK, £140 is a lot more than you would pay for a Filofax, but it is a real bargain, and a really useful bit of kit.
For anyone who already uses MS Outlook for his or her diary, to do list and address book the answer is a definite “Yes”. SLIPS IN YOUR POCKET The Palm m105 is an new handheld (an ... ...set by Nokia mobile phones, Palm has made the m105’s faceplate interchangeable. Now your handheld need not be boring black or staid steel; metallic red, blue and green are just some choices available, just flick off the old one and click on the colour of your choice. At around £14 pounds each, I'm not going to bother!
FREE SOFTWARE The 8MB memory is enough to store a huge amount of personal information, and the best is yet to come! There is ...
john.sw 24.04.2001
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Advantages: Price and Versatility Disadvantages: Older operating system
...wrong.
I purchased my Palm M105 with one purpose in mind and that was to use it as a portable file reader - specifically for Project Gutenberg etexts and error-checking program code. This was to avoid sitting bolt upright in front of a computer monitor, and not suffer all the discomfort and headaches that such inactivity often produces.
The Package:
After some online research to check that the M105 would fit my needs, and once the price had finally ... ...available.
The M105 uses Palm Operating System 3.5 and, unlike some of the more expensive models in the M series, doesn’t support OS upgrades. This, admittedly, doesn’t cause much of a problem at the moment, but it means that the M105 will suffer limitations in the future. Compare it to the restrictions that Windows95 users experience nowadays.
Text and commands are entered via pop-up on-screen keyboards or by using a stylised form of simplified ...
Sblu 19.10.2002
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Advantages: All your information is in one place and you can easily carry it with you. Disadvantages: If you lose or damage it, all your information is lost.
I bought my m105 from The Link and it was only £100 - I have seen it in other stores for the same price.
You enter information either by tapping the end of the stylus (pen) on an on-screen keyboard, or by learning how to write characters in a slightly stylised way so the m105 can understand, which is easier than I thought it would be and turns out to be very quick!
If you follow the Welcome instructions they should show you everything you need ... ...long to get used to, if you're used to Windows, although it's a lot more basic.
The useful functions are:
-Diary (called Date Book), which allows you to enter unlimited text for unlimited times, specific to each minute of each day. You can set alarms for a few minutes to several days before events, but they are not easily heard if you are in a busy atmosphere or your m105 is not right next to you, however, if you don't notice it at the time, the ...
RosemaryDawn 21.08.2002
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Advantages: Price, compatibility, size, style Disadvantages: Memory not expandable
With the introduction of the Palmm105 - with 8Mb instead of 2Mb in the m100, I recommend the newer model, although if you can pick up the m100 for a song - go for it!
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Advantages: Size and weight, expandibility Disadvantages: Not much choice of hardware
My first PDA was a PalmM105, which I got from my wife as a Xmas present. I didn't think I was going to use it very much, but I was about to be surprised. I started having a look around the net for programs and you wouldn't believe how much free stuff there is out there for PDAs. About a year later, the 8M of memory were becoming a bit crowded, so I decided to upgrade to an M130 for the colour screen, the rechargeable batteries and the SD expansion card slot. What a great idea: I paid £120 and sold my M105 to a colleague for 30 quid. I've had the M130 for about a year and half and I have a 32M SD card slotted in with loads of apllications and utilieties.
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Advantages: great feel in the hand, colour monitor, aditional memory can be purchased Disadvantages: colour screen is small and the slide open grafiti pad is annoying
The palm Tungsten T was the next step from the PalmM105 for me. It is Simply a PDA and doesnt have any of the functions of a phone.
The Techie bit.
*Memory (standard): 4 MB flash, 16 MB SDRAM (14 MB actual storage capacity)
* Reflective TFT color screen with brightness control and support for more than 65,000 colors
* Display size: 2.5 x 2.5 inches
*Resolution: 320 x 320 pixels
* ARM-based Texas Instrument OMAP1510 processor
* Integrated Bluetooth Radio and Antenna
* Secure Digital/MultiMediaCard Expansion Slot
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* Blue tooth connectivity for your pc/laptop/mobile phone.
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Manufacturer's product description
If you want to simplify your life and still have plenty of room to grow, take a closer look at the Palm m105 handheld. It has all the cool features of the Palm m100 handheld, including an interchangeable faceplate. Plus, it has 8MB of memory, the mobile Internet kit, and a HotSync cradle for fast and easy backup. With it you may exchange and backup data with your desktop computer at the touch of a button. With 8MB of memory, you'll have plenty of room for all of your phone numbers and scheduling information plus room to spare for add-on software applications. Intuitive is the perfect word to describe how easy the Palm m105 handheld is to use. You instinctively know how to get it up and running right out of the box. Download your email for convenient off-line viewing or use the included Mobile Internet Kit with your compatible modem or cell phone to wirelessly access email or Web information from anywhere. Backup all your important data onto your desktop with the touch of a button using the HotSync cradle.
