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MobileTechReview writes in that they have an editorial about how a Palm user of seven years makes the switch to Pocket PC. I guess we are at the point in history where some of us aren't graduating from Palms to Pocket PCs anymore. There are people out there who have actually started out with Pocket PCs. So reading about how someone else made the switch recently can be sort of nostalgic. The Day the Earth Stood Still
Then one day in mid-March of 2005, a funny thing happened on my way to the forums. MobileTechReview asked me to expand from writing Palm OS reviews to doing Pocket PC/Windows Mobile software reviews. I gratefully accepted the new challenge with anticipation. This was truly untested territory for me, and I eagerly awaited the arrival of a Dell Axim X50v with some software preloaded for the first set of reviews. As a “career” Palm OS man, I knew that I could face the dark side (as we call it in the Palm world) without flinching. I had no idea… Out of the box, into the fire
My first impression: Wow, this thing is small! I could build a sturdy house with the old, brick-like Windows-based PDA’s I’d seen before. The Axim X50v is shorter than my palmOne Tungsten T3 with its slider open, while being about the same width and depth. In that tiny package, Dell packed a 624 MH z XScale CPU, VGA screen, a CF slot, SD slot, IR, audio, microphone, WiFi, Bluetooth, 64MB RAM, 128MB Flash ROM, and a replaceable 1100 mA Li-Ion battery. The PalmOne Tungsten T5 had arrived towards the end of last year with significantly less packed into its slightly-larger package, to the considerable consternation of the community.
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