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4.0 stars
"Pretty bullet proof PDA that provides basic functions"
Pros: Good battery life, decent screen, reliable apps
Cons: Nothing spectacular; no bells or whistles
Summary: Yes, I am writing in 2006 about a PDA from 2002. I actually bought a refurbished epocrates M500 that was packages for he medical profession. When I bought it, it was just being phased out of production and I was replacing the oringal Palm Pilot that had the memory and IR upgrade. It had finally died. I had a choice between the M500 and the M505 and picked the 500 as it had the longer battery life.
After a few false starts where it would crash and freeze, it seemed to straighten out and except for an occaisional freeze usually after I've done something such as moving to Time and Chaos from the Palm Desktop or trying Lotus Orgnanizer or Lotus Notes. However no loss of data occurred.
For extras I do have a couple of games I've added but in reality almst never use them; the unit really is used for contacts and apointments. I've tried the email function but do not use it as I do not use Express or Outlook. The checklist syncs well but sometimes when I delete, rather than deleting on the desktop app, it gets reinstalled on the PDA. Finally figured out for reliable deletions, do it through the desktop app and then update the PDA.
The unit is dated today when looking at say the TX or LifeDrive and does not include nice things like wifi, bluetooth, photo and vid viewing, web browsing, etc. I am getting to a point where having either web access or realtime e-mail access would be nice, I think the current crop of units are too early adoptors and will not be mature for at least another generation.
I've been thinking about updating but after looking at the current Palm product, think I'll hold pat. I've not looked at either RIM, the MS or Linux units but I've been satisfied with Palm to date so unless there is a surprise at their offerings, I'll hold pat.
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