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I've come to depend on a PDA to organize my life. It's great for all my business needs as far as holding appointments, contact info and schedule as well as plenty of personal stuff like shopping lists and portable reading material and the occasional game. I have a Sony Clie 710 (updated to 760 status). It's compact, has a great color screen and generally does anything I need. Even runs a portable version of the Filemaker Pro database that my company runs on.
Unfortunately it will be dead in an hour or two. It's been having trouble synching and charging for a few weeks, but recently has exibihited seisures (random hard and soft resets). This afternoon it had a couple exceptional episodes, so tonight I took it apart to see if there was anything I could fix. Unfortunately it seems that the ribbon connector socket that connects the charging/sync port to the cradle was loose. After careful dissassembly (bought special Wiha tool set) the socket came apart. There is no longer a way to charge the machine as there's no way to re-attach the damaged ribbon socket (and my wife can solder tiny surface mount electrical devices and has all the stuff, including the microscope necessary).
So I sit here sitting Shiva with my old Clie, waiting for the end.
Now I'll need a new PDA. I'm committed to the Palm OS and want a really small unit, but with high performance. The Sony NX and NR series are too bulky for me. The two top candidates for the moment seem to be the Palm Tungsten Ti and the Sony Clie T665.
The Palm Tungsten has a 175 mhz processor, built in Bluetooth wireless connectivity and seems to finally have a screen that's almost equal to the Sony devices (finally) but no MP3 player. The Sony T665 has a 66mhz processor (twice as fast as my dying Clie 760) and a built in MP3 player and is $150.00 cheaper. They both have 16mb of memory and an expansion card slot which will take at least a 128mb memory card and are about the same size physically.
What would you do?
jmx
Unfortunately it will be dead in an hour or two. It's been having trouble synching and charging for a few weeks, but recently has exibihited seisures (random hard and soft resets). This afternoon it had a couple exceptional episodes, so tonight I took it apart to see if there was anything I could fix. Unfortunately it seems that the ribbon connector socket that connects the charging/sync port to the cradle was loose. After careful dissassembly (bought special Wiha tool set) the socket came apart. There is no longer a way to charge the machine as there's no way to re-attach the damaged ribbon socket (and my wife can solder tiny surface mount electrical devices and has all the stuff, including the microscope necessary).
So I sit here sitting Shiva with my old Clie, waiting for the end.
Now I'll need a new PDA. I'm committed to the Palm OS and want a really small unit, but with high performance. The Sony NX and NR series are too bulky for me. The two top candidates for the moment seem to be the Palm Tungsten Ti and the Sony Clie T665.
The Palm Tungsten has a 175 mhz processor, built in Bluetooth wireless connectivity and seems to finally have a screen that's almost equal to the Sony devices (finally) but no MP3 player. The Sony T665 has a 66mhz processor (twice as fast as my dying Clie 760) and a built in MP3 player and is $150.00 cheaper. They both have 16mb of memory and an expansion card slot which will take at least a 128mb memory card and are about the same size physically.
What would you do?
jmx
