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BoxWave T-Mobile Sidekick II ClearTouch Anti-Glare Screen Protector (Single Pack)

BoxWave T-Mobile Sidekick II ClearTouch Anti-Glare Screen ProtectorO MY GOSH! I just got this product in the mail and I applied it to my Sidekick II right away and all I can ssay is WOW! This product is truely amazing and you cannot even relize that it is on your screen. Thank you sooo much BoxWave I truely LOVE this product and I will never leave my Sidekick without one!

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I love it.. This is so much better. Easy to apply. and, I have no problem seeing through. Wow! I would recommend it to anyone!

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Metro Vacuum MS-4C 115-Volt DataVac PC Desktop Electronics Cleaner

Metro Vacuum MS-4C 115-Volt DataVac PC Desktop Electronics CleanerWorst accessory ever! DON'T BUY IT. It doesn't have power to blow or vacuum a smallest piece of styrofoam or paper. It'just doesn't work, it looks nice, but is utterly loud and gets clogged in a second, I mean if you somehow manage to scratch some dust of your equipment.

The way it is described in the catalogs and on the box and the way it is packed, you would think you would need to keep small children and animals out of its way, but that is definitely not the case. The other reviewer said that it was worthless when it is clogged. Well, if that is case, it sure doesn't take much to clog it. I used it on one not particularly crumby keyboard and I literally could not tell if it had ANY (I mean ANY) suction. You would get more suction putting a straw to your mouth and sucking.

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This little vac does exactly what it is suppose to do, pick up small dust particles. If you are expecting it to pick up pieces of food, screws and other larger items dropped in your keyboard or CPU then you will be disappointed. It is great for use around delicate pc boards and actually does pick up very small lightweight items. It is powerful enough for what it is intended to do and nothing more. If you want something more powerful then get the larger data vac pro or a regular vacuum cleaner.

UPDATE: I have had this neat little vacuum for a total of 4 months. All of a sudden it died. I contacted Amazon and they gave me a phone number for Data Vac which is the wrong company. Metro Vacuum is the manufacturer. I called and they said to send back and if they can't repair they will replace. Ok, fine but I have to pay shipping both ways. This will probably cost more than what I paid for the item here.

Buy something else. This item won't last unless you like shelling out $20 every couple of months.

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I bought this from another retailed. I will be returning it immediately. I did not have unrealistic expectations. However, this is completely useless. My keyboard was worse after using this. It did not pick up anything! Not the tiniest speck of dust.

Worthless.

There's more suction created by closing a door 10 feet away than from this vacuum. Is that an exaggeration? No, because this "vacuum" creates ZERO SUCTION.

None.

None at all.

I checked it all out. Clean, new filter: check. plugged in, turn on and making noise: check. Air brush (turbine) in proper place and spinning when powered on: check. Suction: NO.

Worthless. It struggled and I struggled to get it to lift an eyelash from a flat, smooth surface.

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I just bought this Vacuum. It's just good for nothing. You barely get to feel the pressure. It was just waste of money.

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BoxWave Capacitive NOOKcolor Stylus (Jet Black)

BoxWave Capacitive NOOKcolor StylusI got this for my Nook Color and it was okay, but not outstanding. In search of the perfect stylus, I also bought an iFaraday stylus as well as a Wico-C. They weren't any better. After using all three, I found that their performance was about equal good, but not outstanding.The Boxwave ultimately got the nod because the plug at the end of the short lanyard fits nicely into the jack of my Nook Color, with just enough length for me to tuck the stylus in along the side of my ereader. I can keep it plugged in and still close the cover so it doesn't get lost. If you use the plug in method to keep track of your stylus, note that when the plug is inserted in the jack the speaker will be disabled, and you'll have to remove the plug to hear any audio. I do have to say that fifteen dollars for this stylus seems a little excessive for what amounts to a metal tube with a tapper on the end.

I bought this item with the intention of using it on my nook color to help me highlight documents in repligo/ezpdf, and do some fun doodling in autodesk or whatever. As a tool for selecting buttons and turning pages, it does what it should. As an item for being accurate and as consistent as my finger it falls short. I am partially inclined to chalk this up to my using of my nook for more than it's intended for, as it's not sold to run the apps I'm using the stylus for. However, these apps are more responsive to my finger, which to me says it's a conductivity issue, and not a software/hardware issue.

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I have been looking for a stylus since I recieved my Nook, I was sent a few that were not compatable. This item is great in winter and you have gloves on. It is also condusive with long finger nails, as I have. It realy does make reading my nook and searching alot easier

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I bought this to use with ApMemo Lite for my rooted NC. It works ok but somewhat inconsistently. With practice I think it may become more usable, but for now my finger tip is easier. It tends to skip like a second rate pen, but like a pen it sometimes writes properly when I go over the same letter a second time. I was hoping to be able to use my NC as an all-purpose tablet at work to replace an over-stuffed Circa portfolio. I keep a lot of pdfs and other documents which are great since I have all the references I need rather than printing stacks of articles and stuffing them into my Circa.

The stylus would have eliminated the need to bring a notebook. Until I find one or adapt to this one that is at least a functional as pen and paper, I'll be stuck lugging both around.

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This works pretty good for the Nook, almost too good! Sometimes the Nook senses it when I don't want it to. Got to play around with the Nook to adjust the settings, if I can. But this is a handy tool to have, saves screen from getting smeared, and it is just nice to use.

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Specialist Gaming Headset - Black

Specialist Gaming Headset - BlackWorked great for 2 weeks then the Microphone quit working. Supposed to have a 2 year warranty but Nox does not answer emails and the phone numbers they give on the warranty card do not work. Buy something else.

They are sold as a gaming headset and says its compatable for the Xbox 360. I bought them as a gift and was extremely embarrassed to find to find out that they do not function at all with the Xbox 360.

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Have you read the other reviews for these headphones? Two of them (so far) seem like they were created by people from Nox or people hired by Nox to give their products positive review scores. That's a pretty shady business tactic.

Here's an unbiased review, based on actual experience with the headphones, which I wrote for SLUG Magazine:

I was pretty excited when these headphones showed up on my desk. I figured reviewing them would be at least more fun than listening to the glut of mediocre-to-crappy promo CDs that I usually encounter, but alas, I was wrong. These headphones aren't super flashy, featuring a simple black and silver design with some comfortably padded material around the earpieces and on top of the headband. A microphone can be deployed from the left headphone, and a dial on the right headphone allows you to control volume. Pretty cool so far, right? Well, not really. Nox didn't include the cable that allows the user to connect these to a video game console, which isn't a huge deal, but since they're marketing them as gaming headphones, it seems like a dumb oversight. If the headphones sounded good and worked properly, maybe I would've splurged and bought the $20 adapter, but the sound quality is nothing special, and the chord that connects the headset to your listening device of choice broke after one day of use. If you're gonna spend $80 on something that only lasts for a day, I can think of many things more deserving of your cash than these headphones.

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Great design, Mike comes out only when you need it. Audio has good depth of field for games, so you hear where the action is.

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I really love the Nox headset and live with it all day long for a phone headset. Feedback from callers etc. has been great! One needs to know that in order for the Mic part to work from a phone one needs the connector that has 3 black rings on it so the Mic part of the headset will work and this didn't come with the set. Works great on the computer system!

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PalmOne PalmConnect USB Kit

PalmOne PalmConnect USB KitThis USB to Palm adapter is a mixed blessing.

On the positive side, it lets USB based Macs (and PCs) connect to their Palm device, it's easy to install, and once it works, it works without a hitch.

On the negative side however, there's some complaints. It's too expensive. The Mac Serial to Palm adapter costs less than 10 dollars and this one is 40! The software is outdated. It ships with version 2.5 of the Mac software which will NOT work with OS 9.0.2 or greater. The box that it ships in seems like it's a fine size for this small of a device, but when I unpacked it, I found my adapter was kinked directly in the center instead of curled so there would be no wire breakage. There isn't any damage to make it unuseable, but if it were in that position for a long time, I'm certain it could cause a problem.

Once you get the adapter working, it works without a hitch. Problems I encountered and the fixes:

Q. Why does my Desktop not see the Palm when I try a HotSync?

A. The Palm may be corrupted slightly (mine came this way out of the box). Do a soft reset by inserting a pin in the hole in the back (it's documented in your manual).

Q. Why does my Mac freeze, crash, or stall when I try to HotSync?

A. The adapter ships with an older version of the Mac software that is outdated for OS 9.0.2 and greater. Go to palm and download the newest version of the Palm Desktop for Mac (v2.6.1).

Good luck, and happy Palming!

The product works just great. But the fact that I have to buy TWO connectors to get from my Palm to my iMac is ridiculous. I'm sure it makes sense to the inventory control people, but it is definitely not looking from the customer's perspective. My vote says -make a cradle and a cable with USB connectors!

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If you're like me, and stuck with an antique clockwork PalmPilot (in my case a III) from the days when the HotSync cradle connected to the serial port, the recent trend towards eliminating serial ports in PCs (and the fact that serial ports disappeared from Macs years ago) is something of a problem.

If you're also like me in not really being able to justify an upgrade to a more modern Palm or Visor because you don't actually use the one you currently have very much, or don't have a compelling need to transmit color images of your address book via a built-in cellular modem, the PalmConnect kit offers a way to keep your ancient PDA synced for a substantially lower cost than buying a whole new PDA.

The box contains a CD containing the appropriate software (I didn't use it since the Mac OS X Palm software is only available by direct download from Palm's site) and the converter itself. This, as you can see in the photo up top, is a little black box about the size of a box of Tic-Tacs with a rather short USB cable sticking out of one end and a female DB-9 serial connector on the other. Fortunately the fact that the initial market for this thing was iMacs didn't compel Palm to ditch taste and make the thing out of translucent puce plastic. It's plain, black and completely opaque.

Plug the serial cable from your cradle into one end, plug the other iend nto a handy USB port and that's about all there is to it. Really.

Since it's still basically a serial connection it's obviously not going to be as fast as a true USB cradle, and I'd personally have preferred (and been willing to pay for) a new cradle that had the serial-USB conversion built into the cradle base since it would have looked rather less clunky, but it does what it's supposed to, and I suppose you can't really ask for more than that.

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The PalmConnect USB performs exactly as advertised, and is utterly essential if you have a modern Mac (iMac, iBook, PowerBook G3, or PowerMac G4) as the original MacPac will not work. However, it does appear that they are shipping outdated Mac software with it. Don't install the software from the included CD, instead download the latest (and greatly improved) version of the Mac Palm software (currently 2.6.1) from [Palm].

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There are many bad reviews about this USB kit, but I decided to try it anyway. I have a laptop that has not serial port and a Palm IIIxe. Well, I went through the installation and everything went well but at the last step, it would not synchronize. I contacted Palm support and in a few hours (yep, not one day, or two days, but just a few hours) they sent me an email with the solution. And IT WORKED!.

Here are my suggestions to others who want to give this USB kit a try: (My laptop runs Windows 98SE, btw)

-Don't use the CD for the installation of the drivers... Look to the right and choose the PalmConnect USB kit software for your O.S.

-On the download page, they include installation instructions that vary a little bit from those included in the CD. Make sure you follow the installation instructions on this Web page.

-Before you synchronize, make sure that the HotSync software has Local USB and Local Serial checked. (This was the solution to my problem). To make sure, these options are checked, right click on the HotSync icon on the System Tray, and see if Local USB and Local Serial have check marks next to them. Now synchronize.

This should do it! :) It worked for me! Everything runs a-okay. :)

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Gomadic Advanced LG Voyager AA Battery Pack Charge Kit - Portable power built with upgradeable TipE

Gomadic Advanced LG Voyager AA Battery Pack Charge Kit - Portable power built with upgradeable TipExchange TechnologyI hate to see people who take there chargers with them everywhere they go. I didn't want to have to charge my phone at work in the break room, so I thought this would be a great idea! I was right! Sometimes I think my battery will last me all day and it doesn't so this emergency charger comes in handy. I love it!!!

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Vupoint Solutions Magic Wand 2 Portable Scanner (PDS-ST441R-VP) - RED

Vupoint Solutions Magic Wand 2 Portable Scanner - REDI purchased mine as a bundle for genealogy documentation etc. Have scanned pictures, documents, etc and I'm going to say it's the BEST purchase I've made thus far in 2012! Love it!! It's also easy to use, to pack along, instructions are easy to follow. One issue is having to reset jpg or pdf if you let it shut off. It doesn't hold what you last used, but then again, maybe you don't want it too! I just need to get in the habit of checking the window instead of being so excited in finding something to scan. LOL In fact, two other family members have purchased from my recommendation. Many people that are doing genealogy research have these. If you have a family member that likes to scan (remember you can take these anywhere!) it would make a terrific Christmas present for them! And I did buy it thru Amazon and had it within a few days!! Also, excellent to scan old photos to put onto CD's, etc. Very easy.

Fantastic quality images, easy to use, and very versatile over almost any surface. I love that I can save as a JPEG or as a PDF. No need to worry about going to fast or slow, the little roller compensates. Much better product than I expected -no regrets. I showed this to other people in the office and the immediately ordered 2! The only improvement suggestion is a rechargeable battery.

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I got the product just 3 days after completing the on line order.

Unfortunately I couldn't test it immediately. As I live abroad, when I returned home, I tried to use the scanner for the first time only 3 weeks after receiving it. The scanner did work, as I could see the images in the computer.

But the preview mode did not work.

Amazon return procedures inform that I've to send back the product. But the cost to send it back from my country is almost the price of the scanner. And also I have waited 3 weeks to start using it.

In the end I have to keep the scanner that works only partially.

I would not recommend this scanner.

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I ordered this for my wife and she loves it. I was so impressed with it that I ordered another for my self in blue.

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HP iPAQ 5455 Pocket PC

HP iPAQ 5455 Pocket PCWell, let me begin by saying that I researched all of the PDAs on the market including Palm products and came away that this unit would be the best choice out there due to its 80211b connectivity. I primarily use Windows and as such though it would be a great tool to use to keep track of my contacts, Outlook messages, and to even sometimes use the IE browser capabilities remotely. After getting the unit, setting it up, and using it for several weeks I ended up returning it. Here's why, 1) The battery power is horrible if you use BlueTooth or the 80211b. I primarily wanted the unit to connect to my Outlook both at home and at work and I found the battery lifetime to be just short of two hours when using the 80211b (with BlueTooth turned off). This made it really tough to be able to attend a long meeting and rely on the 5455 for my email. Yes I could have carried optional battery packs, but I didn't want to do that. After all if this unit is supposed to be all encompassing then I shouldn't need to carry gear with me to support it. 2) The reliability of the wireless is not without its faults. Quite often I had to do soft resets it got to the point that somewhere between 20-30 percent of the time a soft reset was required. 3) The Pocket PC operating system, particularly the aspects related to wireless connectivity and connectivity with the AutoSynch mechanism are not flawless in their implementation you'll find problems connecting, you'll lose connections, and if you have more than one email service/account then you'll have to manually switch each time to get mail from each of the accounts. 4) I noticed the current incarnation of the Pocket PC OS have problems with slowing down in CPU speed when adding more applications to the unit. This is somewhat expected that as you add apps the OS will slow down, but adding just a handful of standard apps to the 5455 brought the peppy default speed of the unit down to almost intolerable. Again, since these were my primary reasons for purchasing the unit if the synching and wireless didn't work perfectly then there was little point in keeping the 5455. After three weeks of giving the 5455 every effort that I could make a case for keeping it I came to the conclusion that it did not meet my needs. A few weeks later I still do not in any way regret the decision of returning it. Taking into consideration the cost of the unit and the poor reliability and short battery life it just didn't make sense for me. I'll wait till HP come out with better battery technology that actually lasts with wireless and I'll wait till Microsoft come out with their next implementation of the OS which will hopefully synchronize and generally work more reliably. Perhaps by the time this happens then we'll have a version available which is built into a digital telephone this would be an even more practical and useful real-world solution.

This should have been the ideal PocketPC for me. With built-in Bluetooth and Wifi, it is a networking powerhouse without the need for sleds. Unfortunately, there appear to be severe production problems with this unit.

I purchased one and had to return it due to frequent lockups. Sure, it's Windows it crashes, but this was obscene. I booted between 7 and 20 times per day! I returned the unit assuming that I had a bad unit and the other one was the same way. Another collegue bought one and it went totally dark after two weeks. We are zero for three.

The CompUSA store looked it up on the computer and noted 13 returns in 22 days. This unit is a disaster. Perhaps in a few months after a ROM pack is released this will be good, but the current (23-Feb-2003) version of 1.00.45 should never have been released.

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While an attractive package with built in wireless (Blue Tooth, 802.11B), fingerprint recognition (for enhanced security and easy login), HP has in fact delivered a mess.

The saga thus far: Upon delivery the unit was delivered with a stack of supplement manuals and addendums describing the add-on features, however there was no manual for the Pocket PC 2003 operating system. The manual is 160+ pages, and hidden on the CD as a PDF file (although my first round with tech support couldn't find it on the CD, and pointed me to the web site where he couldn't find it either!) It was explained to me that the O/S is provided by a third party vendor (Microsoft), and therefore HP isn't responsible for it! Right... (Never mind that it is essential to the unit, and is useless without it!) Further, attempts to move the PDF to the iPAQ so it can be read with Adobe Acrobat Reader for the Pocket PC when needed proved useless. I personally think this is inexcusable I shouldn't have to download the file to a PC, keep the PC with me at all times, so I can have access to it when I have a problem with the Pocket PC or print out a 160 page book on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper and figure out how to carry it with me. (Kind of defeats the purpose of having a pocket PC!) The unit needs to be delivered with this basic tool.

Next: The unit filed after 2 hours of use. It turned itself on while in my briefcase, got extremely hot, and completely locked up. The 5450 would not reset. Turns out that HP will not send a replacement (unless you want to pay for an additional warranty), so it disappeared for a week and a half (vice the 3 days that were promised when I called technical support). When it was returned, I was informed that they couldn't duplicate the error, so they did nothing. I have since determined that the optional leather executive case sold by HP was designed so that it can readily touch the overly sensitive power switch turning the unit on so it will overheat and run the battery dead. If I don't use the ... leather case (sold by HP for the 5450, it is much less prone to turning itself on and overheating!

The handwriting recognition is poor and difficult to tailor. As often as not, the unit will not exit the keyboard mode without a system reset. (BTW, I find I do 7-8 resets a day at this point between this problem, memory card problems, and wireless problems.)

As for the wireless I have gottent it to work exactly once. After numerous calls to technical support, I have managed to get it to work with one of four wireless networks. According to tech support, the unit will not tolerate 802.11G in the area. They consider it a problem with the 802.11G standards, never mind that my other 802.11B devices are working with no difficulty! It gets worse! The configuration for each network involves multiple control panels that are scattered throughout the O/S, counter-intuitive and poorly documented. You won't gett any help from the FAQ's or technical support web site either. For instance, if you should manage to get the wireless to recognize a network, you then need to go through the network settings control panel, and indicate in three different drop-down boxes that you are connecting at "work" (rather than the "internet" or "home"). Use of any other setting will effectively prevent the device from using the wireless, and requires you to configure a modem (never mind that the whole point of wireless is to avoid using a modem, or you may need different wireless configuration settings at different locations)! (Why work=wireless has yet to be explained to me by technical support.) Clear yet? I thought not...

The latest saga has to do with the SD memory card. It cannot be written to or have the existing files deleted. Suspecting a corrupt file, I tried to find information on formatting the card (or any other information on the memory cards) on the HP web site. There was none. When I called technical support, they informed me that every SD card needed to be formatted before it was used. (Again, nothing in the user guide or the web site). Further, there was no utility provided by HP to do this! I needed to go to a another vendor's web site, and BUY this utility separately (even though it was REQUIRED before I could use the card even the one HP sold me with the 5450!. Despite my better judgment, I bought the utility and low and behold it doesn't work either. Again, how HP can justify not including a basic utility that is required to use the device eludes me.

Finally, this was one of two units I bought for evaluation in my laboratory. The other I gave to my network systems engineer. His story isn't any happier. In addition to the issues I have encountered, his problems have centered around that expansion pack, and the fact that they are such a poor fit, that the unit constantly sees the battery in the expansion pack as going dead (because it fits so poorly) that the unit keeps shutting down. Any devices plugged into the expansion pack are constantly seen as being removed and installed requiring numerous resets as things try to reload.

We have also bought the new Viewsonic pocket PCs and Casios for evaluation. They have been an order of magnitude more reliable that the HP iPAQ 5450, despite (because) fewer features, and further came with complete documentation. None of these have failed to date, nor have we had an issue requiring our contacting technical support.

Our conclusion: the HP iPAQ 5450 is a poorly executed design, lacking basic documentation, with poor support, and should therefore be avoided at all costs.

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I've been a long time Palm user starting with a Pro and owning 6 or 7 since, most recently an M515. The screen was what first attracted me to this unit plus the wireless network, well, it 'sort of' worked for a month, but I've had enough. This unit seems like it would be a good idea, but isn't. Installation and initial sync went very smooth, but that was only the beginning.

DAY 1: First day carrying it, it locked up solidly it wouldn't turn off or soft reset, I didn't have the CD w/the manual on it (bad idea) with me, so I didn't know how to hard reset. I tried taking the battery off, but the unit just came back on (in it's locked up state) when the battery was reinstalled so I just let it die. I spent that evening getting it running again and trying to get the wireless networking to connect to my Linksys WAP11. After fiddling way too much, I finally got my mail and MSN Messenger to work, but not the browser. Finally I called HP's support site and was warned that any help he gave me was on a 'best try only' basis no promises we couldn't get the thing to work.

DAY 2: I left the wireless networking enabled and went to work the battery was completely dead by Noon with wireless enabled the battery seems to have a painfully short life. So I spent that evening restoring it again. I went to HP's website and found an external battery ...

Perfect huh? Ordered this puppy immediately only to find it only works with the expansion pack which adds expansion slots, but also a LOT of bulk just to have a reasonable battery life? I called HP to return it and the agent sent me to the parts department for a second battery to carry. .... he assured me that I didn't have the skills to replace the battery. I told him that it just had a little latch on it and it flipped out and I was quite sure I could handle it. He replied that the case was sealed and that no one but HP was authorized to open it. I told him that tech support had asked me to remove the battery to retrieve the serial number from the label under it and didn't see the problem with removing it. He was then VERY annoyed, told me that I didn't know what I was talking about, and hung up. I figured that there will be higher capacity batteries in the aftermarket soon.

Now it's over 3 weeks later and although I haven't missed any meetings or anything because this thing failed me, I've come close, and instead of just grabbing my Palm and using it without giving it any thought, I find myself reaching for it and wondering if it's going to work. I finally decided I've had enough. I picked out one of the new [brand name] Palm OS units w/MP3 and ordered it. I then decided to call HP and see if they would consider a return for a one month old order they did so without hesitation they looked at their records and saw that I had several tech support contacts on it, appologized that it didn't work out and even sent FedEx with a pickup tag.

The Palm is by far a better platform for simple organizer tasks, but the PPC 'horsepower' is great when using spreadsheets and the like I thought I could have both.

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I purchased the iPaq 5455 one year ago, directly from HP when it first hit the market, paying $649 plus $200 for a 3 year top of the line warranty. I have had several problems with the unit. Starting with the display on the unit going out only after a month or two of receiving it. The next problem was with the battery loosing its charge. Most recently, I have been having the recurring problem of the unit locking up not powering on. And like others, I have never been able to sync my info wirelessly.

I have placed several calls to tech support. I have troubleshooted the unit while on the phone with them and even sent the unit in for repair a month ago, in which I did not get a replacement unit, although my extended warranty states that I should. I received the unit back from repair and the documentation stated that no parts were replaced. Knowing that I definitely had a problem with the unit, I called tech support to see what was repaired. I was told a big lie that the battery was changed and the ENC part was replaced. Looking at my unit now, I see that it is the same battery that I had when I sent it in for repair.

Thinking that all was fixed with my unit, I downloaded all of my information. The next day I experienced the same problem with the unit not powering on with the power button. I placed another call to tech support in which the tech and myself troubleshooted the unit. The tech told me to hard boot my unit which erased all of my data. I was told not to install the one 3rd party software that I had installed to monitor the situation. I once again reinstalled my information without the 3rd party software. Again, my unit would not power on. Again, I called tech support and angrily described my situation.

Finally, the tech tells me that I will be sent a REFURBISHED unit. I received the refurbished unit two days ago and encountered the same problem once I loaded all of my data on to it. HP tech support has you to hard reset the unit to erase all data, which appears to make the unit work properly, but once the data is loaded, the problems begin. Today I called tech support and told them I am returning the refurbished replacement unit and keeping my original to see what their customer care department does to satisfy me.

I purchased the unit because I felt it would be an asset to my busy professional life, but it has been nothing but a hassle. I have sent several email complaints to HP customer support and finally to the CEO Carly Fiorina. I got a reply email from her address stating that someone would be in contact with me.

Each call and every email, I have gotten the same script of "we apologize for your inconvenience". The tech support department located in India is very unhelpful and they speak to you as if you were an idiot.

The unit has some slick features, but right now I am very dissatisfied and frustrated.

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Samsung Horizontal Pouch in Black with Burgundy for Samsung Mesmerize i500 Intercept M910 Transform

Samsung Horizontal Pouch in Black with Burgundy for Samsung Mesmerize i500 Intercept M910 Transform M920 Showcase i500 Intensity II U460 and Metro PCS Samsung Freeform II R360 Craft R900I was nervous about purchasing this case for my cell phone as I wasn't sure it would fit. I have a Samsung Transform Ultra. My phone fit perfectly in the case (but my phone does not have an extra protective hard cover). It is difficult to find a case that doesn't have a belt clip, but this fit the bill. I throw it into my purse and don't worry about the cell phone getting scratched.

BoxWave mini Capacitive NOOKcolor Stylus (Metallic Silver)

BoxWave mini Capacitive NOOKcolor StylusThe stylus works perfectly for its purpose, but I thought it would be an inch bigger. I understand that the product clearly states that its mini. But I will probably lose this after a week. The cord attached to it works but is really short.

I guess if you just want to tap buttons on the keyboard or a link on a page, it's okay. But, if you want to drag the tab to unlock your NC or draw something (on your rooted NookColor ), just doesn't work well enough. Works okay on an iPad or iPhone but not on the Nook.

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Garmin iQue M3 Pocket PC integrated with GPS

Garmin iQue M3 Pocket PC integrated with GPSI have been using the Garmin iQue M3 for five months. This is my first PDA and my first GPS. I use it daily. It is very helpful and causes me little trouble. The list of tasks the Garmin iQue M3 is capable of performing is long. It keeps track my office and personal contacts, appointments, task lists, and notes, which are synchronized with my office and home computer. I use it on business and personal trips as a GPS. I use it for email and Internet with an optional wifi card. I use it to learn Spanish and to watch movies (requires memory card). If you need both a PDA and a GPS the Garmin is worth considering. I recommend getting a memory card and I have never used the Garmin without one. Strengths: good PDA, good GPS, smooth integration of the two, and car mount. Weaknesses: no built in wifi, low memory, and the battery cannot be replaced by the user.

This is one of my first GPS and it has been excellent! I paid a whopping low $377 shipped for it, brand new!

The 3D maps, Points-of-Interests, and voice-guided turn-by-turn directions are very accurate...just like the same in the crazy expensive Nuvi 350...especially when you enable the WAAS feature! This allows nearly superior accuracy over conventional tracking.

The off-route calculation is fast and efficient after going off rate for about 1000 feet... route calculations are pretty quick usually taking about 10-15 seconds. The voice prompts are clear and audible.

Yes sometimes this unit hangs once in a while (especially when you are searching for a location and then you go back and try to browse a map).

Overall this is a great PDA with integrated GPS. It is a lot better than the M5 because it features 3D mapping. The M4 is the latest of the M-series family of Garmin GPS/PDA and that (m4) features integrated maps already onto the PDA. But for me, the 512MB SD card is more than capable of holding 75% of the North American Continent, so the M3 is probably a wiser choice considering it is a lot cheaper than the M4! The entire state of California only requires less than 70 megabytes of storage.

Other features include the SDIO/SD slot which allows wireless 802.11b capabilities if you buy a $50 wireless card.

Overall this is a excellent buy if you are looking for a portable PDA with integrated GPS and can get it for under $400.

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I bought this unit and was excited to see how it performed. It turned on and acquired the satellites within 10 minitues initially, all ok. I spent the next 4 days trying to get it to work with my computer. After several emails and phone conversations, Garmin finally told me the deal. No Garmin unit is designed to work with Windows XP Media Edition. Additionally, their USB connection will only work if the USB chips are Intel. The following chips will definitely not work: ALI, NEC,or VIA. I am not happy with Garmin. They could have saved me a lot of grief by stating this in their advertisements or home page technical FAQs.

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Overall I think, for my money, nothing beats this product...hands down. The reviews about slow satelite connection or slow off route recalculation do it a kind of disservice. These people are either impatient or to "tech savy" for this piece of equipment. Putting half the US on a 256mb card or having a wifi connection on the go is waaayyy worth a slow connection here and there. This total package is what any "average Joe" can handle and would be well worth any pennies spent.

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As soon as I recieved my Garmin M3, I went to garmin.com and downloaded the latest updates which were very easy to download and apply. This should be standard practice anytime anyone purchases a PDA running a version of Windows. The M3 has preformed flawlessly for 2 weeks straight. I'm a heavy PDA user and I've put this thing through it's course. It hasn't locked up or needed to be reset once since I've been using it. The GPS works flawlessly. The included window cradle mount for my car is great and I like the fact that it charges when it's in the cradle. The PDA works fine for my contacts, calendar and tasks. Even a few games I have on it work fine. If you need a GPS and use a PDA regularly then this is the unit for you.

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