Toshiba e335 Pocket PC

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Title : Toshiba e335 Pocket PC
Author : Toshiba
Release Date : 20021025
Binding : Electronics
Regular Price : $399.99
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Editorial Reviews :
Easy to use, the Toshiba Pocket PC e335 features a familiar user interface and tools from Microsoft, such as Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Pocket Outlook, and Microsoft Windows Media Player for Pocket PC 2002. Play audio and video files and organize and view your favorite pictures, all with the Toshiba Pocket PC e335's incredible expansion capabilities, including an integrated Secure Digital (SD) media slot for additional memory or wireless connectivity (via the optional Bluetooth SD card) and USB host functionality that allows the user to plug the device into a full-size keyboard.

Display
The e335 features high resolution on its 240 x 320 pixel backlit color display, which can display over 65,000 colors.

Expansion
With the Toshiba e335 Secure Digital expansion slot, you can get virtually unlimited data storage with Secure Digital removable media. You can transfer digital content between your Toshiba handheld and other Secure Digital card-compatible products, including digital cameras, digital camcorders, and PCs.

Operating System
The Toshiba e335 is powered by Microsoft's Pocket PC 2002 operating system, which offers many enhancements over earlier operating systems. You'll get improved handwriting recognition, more reliable synchronization, increased security, and the ability to chat using MSN Messenger.

Extra Software
In addition to the built-in applications that come with Pocket PC 2002, the Toshiba e335 comes with Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Pocket Outlook, Pocket Internet Explorer, Microsoft Reader, Microsoft Windows Media Player 8 for Pocket PC, File Explorer, MSN Messenger, Microsoft Transcriber, Microsoft ActiveSync 3.5, Microsoft Outlook 2000, Adobe Acrobat Reader for Pocket PC, and ArcSoft PhotoBase.

In the Box
The Toshiba e335 comes with a USB cradle, AC adapter, stylus, soft slip case, quick-start card, and warranty card. It's backed by a one-year limited warranty.

Buyer Reviews :
I bought this thing to upgrade from a Palm Vx, thinking the color would be nice (it is) and that the extra memory would give me more capability (it does--for entertainment more than anything).
However, for the usual nuts and bolts calendar, contacts, notes, and so on, the Palm had plenty of power and is far easier to use. The PocketPC has two particular problems that I find almost intolerable. First, the screen is far too touchy for easy use -- if you hesitate at all or don't make perfectly clean contact, you end up with a bunch of periods and characters you don't want. That happens on both the 'block recognizer' and the 'transcriber,' and I'm not sure why they have both because they work almost the same. The 'letter recognizer' is supposed to let you write words on the screen and recognize your handwriting, but it works for only about half the characters. When you try to erase the mess you made and start over, you have to activate the keyboard and...in short, you sit there for five minutes doing the task that should take 30 seconds. Not my idea of technology making me more efficient.
The second problem is that the thing is hopelessly unstable, crashes regularly and has to be reset, which doesn't always lose all your data, but it does foul up the clock and calendar.
Then there's the MP3 player, which sounds great, but if you carry it in your pocket and the screen gets touched wrong it turns itself off. And of course, when you grab the thing to pull it out of its case, you can't avoid the pushing the note recording button, which creates some issues of its own. And the recording feature is very nice, but you half to jump through a set of hoops and hold your face just right for that to work. Not very good for voicing a quick self-reminder while you're driving.
On the positive side, the display is bright and clear, although that costs you in battery life. The battery is good for about 3 consecutive hours' continuous use. I think the autosync works quite well once you figure it out. Downloading is another story. It doesn't like most generic add-on software, and doesn't recognize a lot of applications that say they're made for it. And it easily loses track of its storage card, requiring a reset.
Last week I got fed up with this thing and reactivated the Palm Vx, and the difference is night and day. It's so much more trustworthy and easier to use that I don't see myself ever going back to that PocketPC or any other one for that matter. The monochrome screen is less entertaining, but at least it works--quickly. In my experience, if you're going to depend on your PDA and use it professionally, the Palm is much more reliable and efficient.
The Windows platform--at least on this Toshiba thing--is ok if you've got lots of time to mess with it, but an old-time paper calendar is a lot more efficient.

(by nedray)

Features/Technical Specs :
* Lightweight, thin Pocket PC with 64 MB RAM and 32 MB ROM and 300 MHz XScale processor
* Secure Digital memory card slot for transferring and storing music, picture and more
* 240 x 320 pixel, 3.5-inch TFT LCD screen displays more than 65,000 colors
* Features the Pocket PC 2002 operating system, with improved handwriting recognition and versions of Pocket Outlook, Word, and Excel
* USB connectivity

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