I had a visor and had all my contacts and tons of other stuff compiled from the last year. hundreds of contacts. It ran out of batteries and my cradle is still packed away from moving in. And I didn't have the software on this newly formatted machine.

Apparently everything on the Visor was wiped out and I lost everything!

Why would they make a PDA that can lose all its data so easily????

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...by the use of the Perfect Past tense, I take it that you don't have it any longer. Did you flush it down the toilet or something?

Haha wrong tense, but seriously why would they do that? What if I'm on a business trip, don't have my computer to hotsync to, and then in the middle of the day the battery dies and I lose all my contacts, schedules, to-do lists, etc, etc????

Does that not sound ridiculous or is it just me?

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They should have it set up like TI-8x and TI-9x calculators are set up - batteries for use, with an internal battery for saving information (but not able to use anything). Then, when you want to replace the batteries, it'd be cool to simply plug it in directly to an adapter, change teh batteries, and be all set....I guess I don't understand why they'd allow so much information to be lost so easily either.....

That's precisely what I was thinking. Maybe their newer versions do have that....

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You expect way too much. Non-volitile memory has not made its way to any kind of palm device that I know of. Too bad it hasn't because the batteries would last so much longer!

My Palm Professional (remember them?) just died and I am now shopping for a new one. Anyone here use Windows CE and like it?

My buddy Ian who owns USBWorkshop.com (Now changing to EverythingUSB.com) has the iPaq and absolutely loves it.

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Read my TRGpro review here.

When you combine the TRGpro with an 8 MB CompactFlash card or higher, you can do a quick system backup every time you power off, to always make sure you can survive a battery drain.

The HandEra 330 also supports this, plus it can be run from an AC adapter without the batteries inserted, and it supports a rechargeable battery pack.

VERY useful.

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Yes it has. Read the TRGpro review here. The TRGpro can read/write CompactFlash memory cards and disk drives, so that your data is kept safe through power loss.Yep. Used to sell them.I've got some older WinCE 1.0 units, and I've used the newer ones too. They strive too much to be tiny laptops. Granted, the interfacing is not unlike that of Windows, but as far as useability goes, that's where it stops. The inner workings and configuration of one are quite a different realm from those of us on our AMD and Intel systems. Sometimes the solution to a configuration problem is so obfuscated that you have to wonder if it's really Windows you're using.

They have their place, but there's nothing wrong with Palm. It's just as easy to write apps for (Easier, IMHO), and has plenty of innovation (There's that word again!) to go around.

I can't wait to get myself a HandEra 330. Now if only they were color...

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