Toshiba e310 Pocket PC

If you told my boss that I said this, I would deny it, but I didn't buy this e310 for work. This is the most fun that I have had with an electronic "work device" since I bought my first PC. I've been reluctant to convert to PDAs for a number of reasons, but the thin size, great price, Pocket PC software, and my experience with Toshiba portables were enough to get me to pitch my paper scheduler and give this Pocket PC a try. So far the conversion has been going just fine.There are so many +'s that I can't mention them all. I'm not just referring to the cool features built into the OS, but the Pocket PC itself has many mentionables; like the record button on the top left side that makes audio notes a cinch. The screen is a definite strength. The adjustable front-light makes the screen comfortably viewable in just about any setting. It makes sense to invest in the relatively expensive screen overlays, because they double as anti-glare protectors. I say that even though I have never successfully got one on without a bunch of the tiny air bubbles stuck under the surface.Thanks to Adobe you can enjoy reading pdf files anywhere you can take this.Some of the annoyances are that on first look it would seem that both the USB cable accessory, that is sold separately as a replacement for the cradle, and the power cable won't fit in the bottom at the same time, but at a closer look the power cable plugs into the USB cord, so you can charge while you sync without the cradle.I do hope that more networking options become available for the SD slot. Currently the BlueTooth compatible device is the only one listed for this PDA. I also wish the industry would decide on a PC Card standard so all our cameras, PDAs, and portables could share cards without depending on conversion. No external keyboard yet either.The LI-ION battery-life is OK. It depends on how much you use the thing. There is no external access to the battery which I find a little strange. Without being read on the matter, I figure that the battery is accessed by removing the back-plate.I am a bit afraid of that moment when this PDAs durability is tested. I've certainly felt more rugged feeling Pocket PCs. But who knows, Toshiba is full of surprises.On the topic of the OS, the default settings for the input word-selection, that's like a popup AutoComplete as you type, bugged me. I don't like that the popup words are usually the longest form of the word, so you seldom use them. Luckily, I found the way to increase the number of words that popup, which helped.I find Toshiba's e310 PDA more than easy, efficient, practical, compact, sleek and enjoyable to use, it's a blast!

cannot use prod without cd the seller should have mention the main item missing and at lest mention where to find one or what site can help to fix problem the item was useless to me

I bought this device to read ebooks, and it does ok for a low price (like under $100). I use Word, Tiny Ebook Reader, MS Reader and Mobipocket. They all work, within limits.This device is extremely crashy and locks up a lot if you try to do too much. Make sure you never have more than one application running, and I would never trust my contacts or calendar to it.As I bought it to use as a pure ebook reader, and got it cheap, I'm satisfied, but don't be fooled into thinking it's a real Pocket PC, it's just not stable enough.

So I have had this device for over six months now, and it's a great toy, no questions. Often used as a WMA player with a SanDisk SD card, though I haven't downloaded any games onto it yet (will I ever?), and PocketTV is nice to watch trailers on.I haven't had a PDA before. Nor do I use M$ Outlook. So most of the synchronization is useless for me. It's good to keep tasks, and take notes (including some data on Pocket Excel).But... the battery life [is bad], and I have had repeated crashes and data loss (lost some notes I took down at a conference - UGH). Have had to load PocketTV couple times.But my biggest gripe is the SD card. I couldn't get the ActiveSync to work properly, and now it seems to run if I take the SanDisk SD card out. Why on earth would SanDisk and Toshiba make their SD cards incompatible with each other? Can you imagine if a Lite-On or Yamaha CD-RW refused to work with a Maxell or Imation CD-R/RW?I wonder if Toshiba fixed this problem with their later devices. I just called TechSupport, and the guy very nicely said I had run out my 90-day S/W support, and the SD card and ActiveSync (d-uh!) came under S/W. I am not paying ... for the call! Anyway, it seems to work now, so... Atleast Toshiba's TechSupport people are polite and nice even if Toshiba doesn't offer much of it (time-wise). And their website seems to [be bad] as well... oh well...Maybe I should have stuck with the cheaper Palms... but toys for boys, and all that, y'know :)Avantgo is nice, but then... most of the stuff I could do on a cheaper Palm. Don't know about WMA, though - but now I have a separate MP3/CD player. Convergence is still far away...