Best Handheld

[boogers]

What is the best handheld out of all that have ever been made, whether or not it may be a Clie?

[Ptah]

If such a handheld existed, everyone would want it, don't you think?

It's a matter of personal preference.

[Hrun]

MINE! :)

It does what I want now I have enhanced the software package

[boogers]

yeah, but what model? i know it is up to your personal opinion, but what is your opinion?

[Hrun]

OK TJ35!

I like the form. I do not want stuff like cameras or thumboards.

It can play games,movies & MP3 (although I needed to pay for some software) as well as the primary PIM stuff

BUT I own this as I liked this, you will now get a bunch of people who own other models and will find the TJ35 lacking in some way.

Ps My original post answered your question as I said mine and it is listed under my pic

HTH Giles

[rsavage]

I'd agree with you, I've played with some other palms, and I definetly think the tj35 has everthing I wanted, and is the sexiest looking clie I have seen, only wish it has a 320x480 screen.

[PDA Expert]

TH55!

[Fez]

I have to say the UX50. I've tried other Palms but the last one I liked was the Palm |||. The Ux50 is like a stylish little laptop. I'm thinking of putting one of the Apple logo stickers that came with my eMac so it looks like a mini power book :p. My UX has alot of power, and with The missing Sync I can put files from iTunes on to it. It has Bluetooth and WiFi, so when your bored over at starbucks or whatever you can go on the web. When your on a long trip, just take your BT phone and start posting on Clie Source. Alot of power in a tiny form.

[Atomic Chicken]

Greetings!
You are going to get about 15 different answers to this question - like Ptah said: It is a matter of personal preference. I personally like the TH-55 and can't stand the UX series, but lots of people will reply that the UX is the best thing ever and all other Clie's are out of date. I'm sure you will get a few votes for the T/3 too!
Best wishes,
Bawko

[Hrun]

I have to agree with rsavage, a 480x320 screen is the one improvement that could be made.

I am keeping up with the developments for the mmplayer you are trialing but so far it seems far more complicated and unstable than kinoma

[boogers]

i don't care what the votes are, i just want to see what everyone thinks.

[jfer_rs]

My NX80 is the best,

i've had a palm m130, and compared with my NX80 it's a POS, although it's still working great, the new one is great.

So, i don't like the UX form, and you know i like any tablet or clamshell form, but not minilaptop form.

[anitanium]

i second nx80

[MegaManXcalibur]

My personal favorite is the NX73V. I love the NX form factor, I also like the gun metal color of the 73V. The camera isn't much but I've used it a total of 0 times so I really am not worried about camera quality. I just hope Sony makes a new OS6 based NX Clie.

[Spiral]

Depends on your criteria, some common criteria and the best handhelds:
battery life: Ipaq 4350, Tapwave Zodiac, Asus A716, TH55
gaming: Tapwave Zodiac or Asus A620 or Dell Axim X3
expandability: Toshiba e755 or e800/Mitac Mio 558 (both have dual slots and usb support)
video: Toshiba e800
websurfing: Toshiba e800
wireless: A716, Ipaq 4000 series, UX50, Mitac Mio 558, TH55 (Euro), Axim X3i (Euro)

edit: TH55, atomic chicken

[fssia]

When I dun have the particular handheld, I will think it is the best or one of the best. Once I have it, I will drool when I see other handhelds, so I can't say which is the best handheld. What I have is good but the newer ones always seem even better. So which is the best? I have to say, it has yet to come! :D

[anitanium]

you forgot the sony clie vx!!!
soon to come out with revolutionary technology

http://members.shaw.ca/nz90/clievx.JPG

[Atomic Chicken]

Originally posted by Spiral
Depends on your criteria, some common criteria and the best handhelds:
battery life: Ipaq 4350, Tapwave Zodiac, Asus A716
gaming: Tapwave Zodiac or Asus A620 or Dell Axim X3
expandability: Toshiba e755 or e800/Mitac Mio 558 (both have dual slots and usb support)
video: Toshiba e800
websurfing: Toshiba e800
wireless: A716, Ipaq 4000 series, UX50, Mitac Mio 558

Spiral,

You forgot to add the TH-55 under your "battery life" category. TRULY phenomenal!

Best wishes,
Bawko

[ClieKun]

chicky it did not forget it. It does not like Palm devices. Only PPC it likes. But The TH 55 should be in that listing.

[Spiral]

Actually, i did forget it, and I already edited it in, and gave thanx to atomic chicken.
battery life: Ipaq 4350, Tapwave Zodiac, Asus A716, TH55

Tell me which palms have dual wireless if you want me to put another device down for best wireless.
Point to me a Palm that can play 640x480 divx/mpg at 20+ fps. The UX comes the closest to the Toshiba, but the toshiba has a nicer, larger screen and is more powerful in playback.
If a palm had a VGA screen and wifi you could argue it for wireless.
No palm has expandibility via USB, only the NX series has different dual slots (and look how many accessories can fit in CF for Nx).
There's no way Sony's aweful button layout can even touch the A620's speed, d-pad, and big buttons, X3 6 buttons, and speed, or the Zodiac's analog (which is a great thing when it works), and excellent button layout.
The A716, Zodiac, and 4350 all have 1500 mah batteries and very good battery times, I added in the TH55 only 5 minutes after atomic chicken reminded me.

[ClieKun]

Need we say more:rolleyes:

[Spiral]

do you even realize there have been palms in the listing since the start?

If you feel the list is too PPC centered on the criteria i selected, point me some more Palm devices which could qualify.

[sindu]

I am still searching for the best PDA... but i must admit the form of PPC lately is a distraction.

[ClieKun]

I like palm devices and PPC devices. Each has their own groupies :D

[fssia]

Yeah stop this argument abt Palm & PPC! Everyone should have the rights to choose what they like best for themselves without needing others to also like the choice.

[ClieKun]

I agree......look at my sign :D under this :D

[anitanium]

since we have yet to see the "response" to ppc's toshiba e800, i will reserve judgement

[orol]

I don't think there will a PDA with VGA screen on the Palm OS side .. it simply will not

btw to me the best PDAs out are UX50 & TH55. each has something better or more suitable to some of us ...

e.g. since I'll not buy a PDA without a keyboard .. TH55 is not PDA of my choice

[Ptah]

Originally posted by boogers
What is the best handheld out of all that have ever been made, whether or not it may be a Clie?

It's NOT my NX73V/E though it is nice.
I don't really know about other handhelds as I haven't really tried any of them.

[abid786]

Originally posted by jfer_rs
i've had a palm m130, and compared with my NX80 it's a POS, although it's still working great, the new one is great.

What does POS mean?

Abid

[Spiral]

piece of "crap" (insert synonym starting with s for crap)

[PBM808]

idk if anyone's said this, but there is no best handheld. everyone has their own needs, preferences, tolerances, requirements, etc.
what might be ideal for you could be crap to someone else.

[fssia]

Originally posted by Spiral
piece of "crap" (insert synonym starting with s for crap) What is? :confused:

[ClieKun]

Originally posted by fssia
What is? :confused: its some thing you get use to with some people here :(

[Kbranch]

Originally posted by Spiral
Depends on your criteria, some common criteria and the best handhelds:
battery life: Ipaq 4350, Tapwave Zodiac, Asus A716, TH55
gaming: Tapwave Zodiac or Asus A620 or Dell Axim X3
expandability: Toshiba e755 or e800/Mitac Mio 558 (both have dual slots and usb support)
video: Toshiba e800
websurfing: Toshiba e800
wireless: A716, Ipaq 4000 series, UX50, Mitac Mio 558, TH55 (Euro), Axim X3i (Euro)

edit: TH55, atomic chicken

Poor Linux devices never get noticed.

Zaurus C760(or C860, it's the same hardware):

Battery life: I can't seem to find any time estimates, but any PDA with a 1700 mAh battery is going to have damned good battery life.

Gaming: Granted, there aren't that many games designed specifically for it, but there are quite a few emulators that run at full speed or very close to it (NES, SNES, Gameboy Color, MAME. There are some early experiments with PSX and GBA, but they're not up to par yet). Most of that is available for PPC too, but the keyboard makes things like SNES actually enjoyable.

Expandability: Dual slots and USB host via CF card.

Video: 640x480 screen, 400 MHz PXA255, an ATI chip and some kernel tweaks that make it perform better than any PPC or Palm I've ever seen. You can also stream video off a PC with Samba without much hassle.

Web surfing: Just think, 640x480 landscape AND a REAL browser (FireFox. That's right, the real thing. Nothing removed)

Wireless: This is one rather annoying shortcoming, but it's easily fixed with CF cards (GPRS and GPS too, not just BT and WiFi). It's nice to have integrated WiFi and BT, but if you ever want to upgrade you have to upgrade the whole PDA.

I know there are going to be people saying that there isn't much software, but it's not nearly as bad as some people seem to think. It's true that there often isn't more than one program for a given task, but it usually does a damn good job of it.

[Spiral]

Linux is too oddball to count :D

[nick_S]

Psion 5mx?

I have had one since they first came out and have only now bitten the bullet and decided to replace it (with a th55).
I hope I'm not disappointed.

I know it's only black & white, but it runs a month or more on 2 AA batteries, can work with MS office files (sort of ;) ), has an excellent diary and never ever crashes. Plus it has a keyboard that you can use. The biggest downside was the dreadful syncing.

If Psion had kept producing, It is likely I would never have looked at sony