Aaron Reynolds wrote:
On Mar 29, 2006, at 6:32 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
It might be nice to have needed info at my fingertips, although, there's
really not much info I have to have at my fingertips - I check my
appointments on the PC in the morning, and then go about the day. What
kind of Palm do you have? Is it like a PIM - Just learned what that is
;-)) How do you sync the Palm and the PC?
I'm not Bruce, but I have a Palm TX, which is the fancy-ish new one
that has built-in wi-fi (for wireless internet browsing) and bluetooth
(for connecting wireless devices like headphones and keyboards). I
got it instead of repairing my laptop, because my laptop primarily
fetched my e-mail, surfed websites, reminded me to do stuff, stored a
bunch of books and played music and movies to entertain me when I was
on the train or stuck somewhere dull. The TX can do all these things
and fit into my pocket.
Now, I tell you all this because there's one other good reason to get
a Palm with a big-ish screen: you can pop the SD card out of your DS
and pop it into the Palm to view your photographs on a four and a bit
inch screen instead of a two inch screen.
Of course, the TX is like $399 US, I think. But Palms start at $99
for the Z22, which does have a colour screen.
How it syncs to the PC -- it comes with a USB cable. You plug the
Palm into the cable and press the button on the cable, and ta-daa, it
backs up your data and updates calendar and address book changes you
made on the computer. If your computer has wireless and you get a TX
or one of the other wireless-capable Palms, you can also sync
wirelessly by tapping something on the Palm. I've never tried,
because the cable is also the charger, so I just sync when I drop the
unit into the charger for the night.
-Aaron
Screens on the low-end palms are horrible. If you're shooting JPEG,
Kodak makes a nifty litlle Image Viewer that takes SD, costs around
$100CDN. I carry that instead of my Palm for viewing photos, it's
distinctly nicer despite only having a 2.5" screen.
-Adam
