The Once In A Blue Moon PC Fair

Finally,... yes.... finally I did it, I finally bought a PDA at a price which is a few hundred ringgit cheaper.

Bought it a few weeks ago at The PC fair which was held at Kuala Lumpur City Center.

In Malaysia, PC Fair is an event you wouldn't want to miss out if you're looking for computer related gadgets, because the sellers there really drove down their price at PC Fair.

The whole family just arrived from Ipoh to KL one night, and we went to straight to KLCC because I couldn't wait for another year or so for the next PC Fair.

I simply have to go to KLCC then.

Unfortunately my daughter who was 7 years old was sick with fever (she was OK the next two days)and I felt obliged to carry her as she was looking at me in the eyes in a pitiful way, complaining to me she is going to black-out if I don't carry her. So I have to carry a full 20kg weight most of the time there. Sometimes, I have to asked her, if I can put her down and take a rest when her weight seems so unbearable.

A few days after that, I felt like I'm having a fever myself. All my joints and muscle felt hurt.

Categories: PDA, Malaysia, KLCC, PC FAIR

Opppsss...The Not So Perfect PDA

Doug from http://www.underdoug.ca/ post a comment in my previous posting. Later I was intrigued after reading his blog posting. I did more research and lucky me.

I came across a review when reading through CNET suggesting to visit here, which was started by g00nerz.

He or she started the forum posting, with the comments I pasted below;

Got a brand spanking new Axim x51(v)? Are YOU experiencing these problems?
-Axim Will not power on after standby?
-White Screen Of Death (WSOD)
-Losing CF or SD cards?
-Battery losing charge while on standby?
-Axim overheating when left in standby mode?
-If Leaving WiFi on when putting into standby, it's light starts flashing for no reason?

....and some more description at Wikipedia , I'm not sure if it will be available when you look for it there now.

Most probably I won't be buying Dell AximX51 anymore after reading both of them. Looks like Dell Axim X51 is not stable which is due to Windows Mobile 2005 bug. In the thread it was speculated that the instability is caused by Active Sync, which launched itself automatically and brings myriads of problems.

The proposed solution is to disable the Active Sync.Actually I'm at the verge of divulging my credit card number to Dell online website. Axim X51 is so cheap compared to its competitors model, it is giving a big discount for the gadget, which nearly got me hooked.

Categories: Malaysia, Personal, PDA, PocketPC, Windows, Dell, Axim

Searching for the Perfect PDA

I'm looking for a PDA. If you haven't knew about it, there are two types that is available in the market.

Palm which is using Palm OS and Pocket PC which is using Windows Mobile OS.

I'm swaying toward the Windows OS, while that said, I couldn't really point the fault with Palm, from all the palm vs pocketpc articles and discussions, actually palm is cheaper, but I guess for me when I heard Windows it makes me feel secure because of the familiarity.

All this while I have been using Windows and feel comfortable using it.

There are many of Pocket PC brand out there including Toshiba, Fujitsu, Acer and etc.

Now I have zoom down to either HP, Dell or maybe HTC.

HP and Dell may well be familiar to anyone who knows something about PC and notebook, but what the heck is HTC.

What surprised me and I think you also, is that HTC is the number one contract manufacturer for Pocket PC from Taiwan and ehem,ehem,....Dell also contracted out the manufaturing to HTC to produce their line of AXIM Pocket PC, although I'm not quite sure which models.

Have you all heard about the ever famous O2 XDA....,well at least here in Malaysia it is famous. This gadget model is also manufactured by HTC.

So, small world isn't it.

It goes round and round.You start from point A and then after a long journey you arrive back to point A.

Guess. whose microprocesser they are using in most Dell, HP, Acer and IBM PCs and notebooks?

You see, what I meant?

So the Pocket PC I'm interested in are HP IPAQ rx1950, Dell Axim X51. I'm also considering whether to buy second hand or new item.

But I need to check whether I can get a reasonable priced second hand Pocket PC which runs on Windows Mobile 2005 (WM 2005).

All the new one launch to the market at end of last year comes with WM 2005 which has better features compared to WM 2003. Well, that is expected.

Categories: Malaysia, Personal, PDA, Pocket PC, Palm, Windows