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but now it's almost dead in the water except that I can still play solitare and bubble breaker. but since this was my first PDA, I was happy that it would play movies and entertain me during long trips. How wonderful for my naievete. well, now my trust factor of all things ASUS have dropped off.
When I first bought this about 16 months ago, I loved it. and when the moon is just right, work the excel program. that I didn't persue more of the features. except that it couldn't connect to the internet from my apartment.
I noticed that Dell doesn't offer the item any longer and ASUS doesn't support (nor do they seem to acknowledge it's existence). :) I love life. couldn't synch with my laptop nor could it update when I was able to connect to the internet. When I started learning that the product was suppose to be able to do some of the things that I had initially bought it to do and didn't.
CE) that came with it, I cannot say. I bought it because my Axim X30 developed a screen fault after several years of use, and I thought that was the begining of the end - I'd had to replace a previous Axim because of another failure. Axim -literally several minutes vs than a second or two on Axim - pretty frustrating when I was just looking up a contact, or recording an appointment at the dentist's office. This worked fine on all models until A626.
I've used a number of PDAs since the late 1990s - HP 620 (as I recall), REX, iPaq, Axim X30 and A626. Within the past month, Calendar and Contacts functions became inoperable on the A626. Whether this was due to A626 hardware, or the bloated Windows Mobile software (vs. How I'd like to see the REX come back on to the market.
But A626 took much longer to start cold than e.g. These seem to have been corrected by a hard reset - but what a hassle - my labor costs in dealing with deficiencies of A626 now easily exceed the cost of the device itself. Anyway, all of these seem to have offered increasing functionality, until the A626. I have to, or think I have to, cart around a PDA because of work/life divisions, keeping common calendar/contacts functions on the PDA.
The audio is a little weak, but I had wanted to get a Sanza Fuze anyway to cover that base. It's an upgraded to WM 6 model, built almost as solid as any dedicated high end pda such as Socket Mobile, (and a third the price) and I have no complaints. Highly recommended. After many years, and being a sold-on-pda man who doesn't like to have all his eggs in one basket, I needed to upgrade. This was the one I chose after much research and I do not regret it.
With no wifi on, maybe 3-4 hours. It can;t play most pocket pc 3-D games, I just got a black screen when ever I anted to play a game I didn't download from the marketplace. I bought this product about 6 mos. The RAM is pretty low so running multiple applications isn't the best idea. All in all, it's not too bad, but I recommend download a pocket pc program that plays any video file and download a music player, the windows media player it comes with is pretty bad. ago and its been good so far but the only major problem is the battery. On wifi the battery lasts for maybe and hour and a half.
That occasionally works on wired connections. It does not like to run active sync. The WiFi of this machine is poor at best. The browser is not ful featured.
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