PDA Forum / General / August 2003

Just a warning.
A company calling themselves "PayPal" have taken money off my credit card
without authorisation.
They do not respond to emails, but insist that all contact is through a web

Dear Friends,
I'm sorry for everything I've ever said and done. I call myself Bertie
now, but I've been known mostly as Sandy, Steve, John, and Michael,
but also by many, many other names. You can read everything I've

Is it possible to replace PALM OS by Microsoft OS? I understand that you
need Flash Rom for that, but I wonder is these OS-s can replace eachother.
Regards,
Alpha

Folks,
I'm going to buy a new mobile phone.  I'd like to get one that I can
send phone numbers from my Palm Vx.  Not unexpectedly, all of the
store-front mobile phone sales people say "Hey.  No Problem.  This one

I have a Clié NX70 with a 128MB MS.
I need to free up 1.5 MB from internal memory in order
to load Mapopolis maps.
My largest files are:

Bought a second hand HP Jornada 680 online. Thing just freezes after
calibrating the touch screen. HP's Customer Service says they'll
charge $250+ to replace it. Is there any chance that I can undertake
repair myself or even send it in somewhere who would fix it (not HP)?

Can I sync my palm Vx's address book with Outlook Express? I have it synced
with Outlook at work, but would like to sync with Outlook Express as home.
I do sync at home to transfer some file, but don't transfer my address book
at this time.

Recently bought a Toshiba 64MB SD card for the Treo 90. It's painfully
slow compaired tow hen I use internal memory. My questions are this:  Is
an MMC card faster then SD, are there any specific brands that are kown
to be best for the treo, and what is the mazimum size SD and MMC ...

I'm thinking about picking up a clamshell Jornada for use when on the road ( I need the keyboard ).
What is the last clamshell Jornada produced and does anyone recommend it ( or something else ).
Primarly, I'm looking for a clamshell Windows CE handheld for the road where I can ...

I have a problem w/ my TT which I can't seem to figure out a solution to.
When I have to reset my TT (due to system hangs, etc.), my hotsync will
automatically install all those stuff that I backed up.
Why is this happening?

I need to have an advance scientific/engineering calculator emulator
that could do complex number arithmetic for the new school year ??
Anybody knows if there exists a bug-free and stable Ti-86/89 and/or
HP48g/gx emulator for Pocket PC 2002 ? I am using a discontinued

for the past 2 days i have started having problems with my T/T which is
about 8 months old. when i use the unit the digitizer steadily becomes more
inaccurate. that is - say using the scroll bars - i start off using them by
touching the stylus directly on them after a while they ...

I know this is a cross-post, and I apologize in advance if this offends
anyone for being "off-topic"
Actually, this goes back to the OLD days.  I have a 3Com Palm III (Yes the
original makers of the palm).  I had many years ago purchased a TRG memory

     I am trying, without any success to connect my iPAQ5500 to the net
using bluetooth and a GPRS enabled Nokia 6310i. No way can I manage to
configure it to work. Set up details are:
iPAQ 5500 running Pocket PC 2003

Is-it possible to read the dwg files (autocad) on a PDA Palm Sony OS 5 ???
Cordialy,
Michael