01-03-2004, 04:22 AM
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$60 Price Drop on Toshiba e805 at Best Buy
For those of you waiting for a price break on the Toshiba e805, Best Buy has dropped the price by $60 USD, making it $539.99. I'm sorely tempted to get one of these, but I'd miss giving up the svelte size of the iPAQ 4150, and I'd prefer to wait until official support for 640 x 480 arrives. Still...so tempting!
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01-03-2004, 04:56 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Oct 2004
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"What'cha talkin'bout Willis?"
No seriously, are you saying that the iPAQ 4150 will have official 640x480 support? Any word on when?
I may be tempted then. I've seen this Toshiba model at CompUSA and it seems rather large. But then again, I am a 2215 owner so just about anything else out there would seem large 
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01-03-2004, 04:59 AM
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Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by apeguero
No seriously, are you saying that the iPAQ 4150 will have official 640x480 support? Any word on when?
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No, I'm pretty sure he means "waiting for an iPAQ-sized device and waiting for official support in the OS". 
Give it a few more years, and then we'll probably see such resolutions in everything.
--janak
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01-03-2004, 05:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Janak Parekh
Give it a few more years, and then we'll probably see such resolutions in everything.
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A few years after that, you'll see even higher resolutions in everything :P
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01-03-2004, 06:03 AM
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And a few years after that, we won't need no stinkin' displays!
Either they'll be etched on the lenses of our eyeballs, or we'll all be so old we wouldn't be able to see a darn thing anyways.
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01-03-2004, 06:38 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Added Bonus, get a $50 gift card!!!
Buy a PDA $200 and up and receive a $50 Best Buy gift card instantly (savings will show in Cart)
Both the PDA and gift card must be placed in your Cart to get the savings.
Details are here:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....&type=category
So your total price will be $489.99 not bad...
:mrgreen:
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01-03-2004, 07:21 AM
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Editor Emeritus
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Originally Posted by fyiguy
Buy a PDA $200 and up and receive a $50 Best Buy gift card instantly (savings will show in Cart)
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I decided to play with this just to see how it worked, and my Cart says $589 total. I don't get it. :| Does one have to go further through the process?
--janak
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01-03-2004, 09:27 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Still a naysayer.
I'm still using my e740. I doubt I'll be buying anything that says Toshiba on it soon. I'm looking to get a 4150/5 myself. The price is so tempting compared to what I paid for my last two PDAs (3630 in mid-2000, and the 740 when it came out). I bought my wife the iPaq 1935 and the size is definitely a plus! This new Tosh is almost a Tablet PC in size. My BDU pockets are that big, but none of my other pockets would fit this Pocket PC.
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01-03-2004, 11:04 AM
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Sage
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I've always owned HP PDA's, (The 3970, was actually an HP device, they just didn't start putting the HP logo on it until the 54xx series) but I decided to make the leap to Toshiba. I don't know if I made a mistake or not, but so far I'm loving it. Browsing the web with Wi-Fi in VGA mode is just incredible. The text is small, but very sharp and readable. I certainly hope (fingers crossed but not expecting a miracle) that Toshiba doesn't leave this PDA model in the un-upgradeable heap that they've left some of their other models, when the OS starts fully supporting VGA. I won't hold my breath, but it may likely be a full year or two until that happens, and if feels goot to be at the cutting edge for now.
The biggest thing that made me jump, is that although these devices have excellent screens and processors (for the size of the device), most PDA's are only offering SD for expansion, with a few offering CF instead, or as well. Although there are some excellent prices appearing in the 512MB size, for SD and CF cards, the prices of larger storage cards has not come down as fast as I hoped. With the Toshiba's, we get something that all PDA's IMHO should have built in, USB host capability. I know that a lot of people will say, " Well, that doesn't help you, if there aren't any drivers available for PPC". Well, there are some drivers, and many people are using their Toshiba PPC's with an MP3 player or an external portable HardDrive. This isn't the best, but it can give you up to 80GB of storage for movies, music, and any other media or files you want to take with you.
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Ok, I'm done with my little rant, but I love this new PDA, and I know many others feel the same way. HP has been a very good supplier of PDA's, and I have had excellent experiences with all of them. I held on to my 3970, hoping that the 54xx would include more RAM. That didn't happen until the 55xx. I just about moved up, until I found out they removed the Consumer IR and NEVO (what a disappointment). I don't have CIR or anything of the sort with my e805, but I wouldn't have it with the latest flagship model from HP either, but I do have VGA. 8)
Oh, I did take advantage of the $60 off, but I didn't get a $50 gift card with it. Oh well maybe next time. Has anyone else bought one and recieved the $50 gift card? I'm wondering, did they let you use the gift card toward the purchase of your PDA, or do you have to buy something else with it?
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01-03-2004, 03:11 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Originally Posted by wrightca
This new Tosh is almost a Tablet PC in size. My BDU pockets are that big, but none of my other pockets would fit this Pocket PC.
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Acutally the new Toshiba 800/805 is the same size as as the HP 567/568.
Plus it comes with SD and Compact Flash slots and it has 128 megs of RAM. Disregarding the screen everyone raves about those two things make it desireable to me.
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