Product Description
The Dell Axim X5 Handheld is a fully integrated PDA offering exceptional performance, superior functionality and excellent expansion capabilities. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a better performing device for the price.As well as helping to organize your day, you can easily manage your online address and phone book, seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Outlook and receive email directly to your Handheld inbox via an optional Wireless CompactFlash Card. With Pocket Excel and Pocket Word, you can create and edit spreadsheets, or edit and view Word email attachments just as you would on your notebook or PC. You can even record your own voice, making audio notes on the move. After a busy day or when it’s time to rel… More >>
Dell Axim X5 400 MHz Pocket PC
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I tried to order this product on-line and was subjected to nothing but grief. 1st I got an email stating my bank would not authorize payment. Despite repeated emails to Dell, no one would tell me why there was no progress on the order even after I updated my credit card info. Two days later a Dell rep called and said my ship date had been extended by 5 days but he could not tell me why. When I checked on-line the original ship date was still listed. I called again to be told my order had been canceled-the best thing Dell has done for me so far. Product may be great (I’ll never know) but the CS stinks. You should not have to beg a company to take your money. Get an IPAQ.
Rating: 1 / 5
While the Axim is probably the most affordable Pocket PC on the market today, anyone who is serious about quality should look at the Compaq iPAQs (especially the 3955). Sure, they cost about a hundred and fifty bucks more, but with the 3955 you get a much brighter, crisper screen, greater durability, a whole assortment of awesome programs, and best of all: you don’t have to worry about the terrible customer service at Dell.
Rating: 1 / 5
This crashed 15 times and the os sucks wast of money get a zire 72 it works!!!
Rating: 1 / 5
This is just my humble, experienced opinion with PocketPCs, I do not own this Dell because I did some extra thinking …
I used to always tell people to avoid Compaqs but in the PocketPC niche there is just no beating an IPAQ. The reason isn’t the initial price (Dells are cheaper to get the catch-up marketshare) or the processors (All new ones worth buying are 400MHz) but the expandability.
After you own your pocketpc for a few days you realize that the brightest screen and the most flexible expandability are the things that are really the most important.
Ipaqs have been around a long while and the case format is a standard. Because of that the expansion options are not limited to CF & SD cards as are the options for Toshibas and Dells.
I am right now watching a widescreen movie on my 3835, jitter-free stereo MPG1 ripped with a $49 Linx usb cable. It’s rolling off of my 2GB Toshiba PCCard drive ($70, $150 for a 5GB). This is a PCMCIA card not a CompactFlash, the largest CF drive you can get is the MicroDrive which is 1GB for $350.
I looked real hard at the Dell when they announced that they were dropping the PalmOS for PocketPC2002, but without all the options (esp the PCCard sleaves) it became just another Win-PDA, not a “I can use this for everything”.
Maybe Dell will eventually offer more, but right now there are years of sleaves for Ipaq and HP has said that they will stick with the case style so that all older sleaves will continue to be fully useful (I heard a 5 Year pledge on a newsgroup).
If this is your first PocketPC, keep this in mind or I guarantee in a few weeks you will be wishing you had not jumped at the lower base cost. 3970/75s or 5450/55s are worth a harder, closer look. I’m moving up to a 3975 to get the brighter screen, and if I wasn’t so into movies then the 3835 would still be my 100% killer.
And if you’re thinking PalmOS because there seem to be more software titles? Watch out .. Microsoft wants the market and so they are releasing the .net CompactFramework for developers in April; That makes coding the PocketPC a breeze compared to developing for Palm, this is going to make the amount of titles available for PocketPC soar in 2003
Rating: 3 / 5
I’ve owned the ipaq 3835, the hp jornada 568, the cassiopia be-300, and checked out the toshiba’s. DUDE I’M GETTING A DELL ! If You Spend $300.00 On A Palm OS You’re Not Only A Nut, You’re An Ill-Informed NUT.As Are Those Paying $600+ For P/PCs.
Rating: 5 / 5