[carphead]

Got x50v today. Mainly because of a excellent deal.

Screen is excellent. Compared to the 2215 I have.

In terms of first impressions. I think I found the 2215 more exciting at the time.

BUT my gosh VGA is beautiful.

[carphead]

Got x50v today. Mainly because of a excellent deal.

Screen is excellent. Compared to the 2215 I have.

In terms of first impressions. I think I found the 2215 more exciting at the time.

BUT my gosh VGA is beautiful.

[dmy]

Has anyone (Innopocket, are you listening??) Made a Titanium case for the X50v yet???

I know.... a stupid reason to wait to get one, but with what my 2210 went through in my constant travels, I'd really prefer to wrap it in Ti off the top.

D.

[Abras]

Originally Posted by carphead

Got x50v today. Mainly because of a excellent deal.

Screen is excellent. Compared to the 2215 I have.

In terms of first impressions. I think I found the 2215 more exciting at the time.

BUT my gosh VGA is beautiful.

And about the size? It's bigger and heavier than 2215?

It comes with a case?

Thanks.

[KevinK]

have an x50v as well as a treo 650 and I love them both. If the x50v was a phone I wouldn't need the treo, but the dell is just beautiful to behold. I could not go back to qvga. There are a few small issues but it's a steal compared to the hp 4700. BTW, posting from my treo, which is an amazing experience.

[ricksfiona]

The review is very good. I always trust those guys to do a good job.

The Dell X50v is a sweet unit! If I weren't totally turned on by the new iMate PDA2k and the JAM, and the JAM's HOPEFULL upgrade, I would get the Dell in a second. You certainly can't beat the price.

[Alpha2004]

This is the worst review to date of the x50v

He keeps comparing the x50v to the x3i, which is an outdated pocket pc. He also makes many mistakes in the review,along with the less is better graph for the 2d gaming performance.

the only thing the x50v can be compared to in dells lineup is the x30h, period!

[Darius Wey]

Originally Posted by Abras

And about the size? It's bigger and heavier than 2215?

It comes with a case?

Thanks.

The included case isn't great, so I've heard. There are Rhinoskin metal cases available for the X50 but they are aluminium.

[KidKomputer]

I've had an x50v for about two months now and have to agree it's the best PocketPc I've owned yet (Ipaq 3800, 2210, Hp 568).
Using se-vga reading books is excellent.
In regards to the review. If you watch movies on your PPC betaplayer IS optomized for the 2700 graphics chip and runs like a dream. (See the x50 forums @ aximsite for more info)

[Sven Johannsen]

There are a couple of features of the X50v that I rarely see in reviews, and are barely mentioned in the specs. The unit does support VGA out at the sync connector. So if using your PPC to present Powerpoint slides via a full sized monitor or projector interests you, it's built in...courtesy of the graphics subsystem. You do have to buy a special cable, but it comes with display software, and is still cheaper than any VGA out sleeve, SD or CF solution.

The second is that the headphone jack is a headphone/mic jack. Again you have to really dig to find something that claims to work in it, but it can be done. I have a headphone mic cord that works great for things like Skype. I also have a headphone/mic socket splitter thing that lets me use any of those PC headsets with the seperate headphone and mic plugs. You can also just plug a mono mic into the splitter if you just want to record.

It does, BTW, have the headset profile supported in the BT manager so you can use a BT headset, like the Jabra.

There are some little stability glitches and bugs, like BT claiming it doesn't have enough room to start (I have the PPCTechs 128M RAM Upgrade, so I normally have as much RAM available as most of you start with), and the screwed up Media player button assignment thing, but these may not really be X50v specific. Dell has been forthcoming with patches to their other models in the past, so I expect these things will get fixed if they are Dell problems.

I think it is a heck of a device for the price. I'm not entirely sure it's worth dumping a fairly recently purchased PPC for it though. I think my iPAQ 4155 still has a lot going for it. The X30 lacks only VGA and the SE part of WM2003. SE just doesn't do all that much for me. If you ae in need of a PPC though, the X50v deserves some serious consideration.

[Jeff00000168]

I couldn't have said it better!