HP Jornada 720

This is better, and cheaper than a laptop. Its fairly old, and I picked it up for £15 on a bootfair, and you can get them for £30-£60 on a eBay. It isn't as fast as a laptop, and the screen isn't as big or as good quality, but its compact, and great for office work on the move. I have excel, word and powerpoint on it, and it does everything I need. Also the keyboard is so much better than the touch ones you get on other newer PDAs, its faster and easier to type on. [Unless you have fat fingers as the keys are quite small] Despite this there are its bad points, it doesn't have all the functions you would have if you ran the aboive programs on a laptop, and if ...  Read the complete review

I have been using PDA's for many years and own a Psion 3c, Palm V and Jornada 720. The Jornada is by far the most powerful PDA i've ever owned and it's suite of applications which are so closely aligned with those of Microsoft's full Windows operating system make it very easy to complete work on the move. Whether the Jornada 720 is for you will depend on what you need a PDA for. If you are looking for a portable address book, calendar and note pad that will synch with Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes etc. I would recommend a Palm Pilot. The Jornada is quite bulky compared with the Palm and it's main let down is the colour screen outdoors, even ...  Read the complete review

For the last year or so the company I work for has been trying to sort out its office administration systems and has been struggling badly to get meetings arranged, keep the directors in touch, etc, etc. We’re finally starting to make big inroads into this whole area of work now and are fully operational using Microsoft Outlook and Exchange Server products to link the whole organisation together with respect to e-mail, diaries and address books. That in itself has had major advantages in that now I can automate the booking of meetings, leave meaningful messages for people, find out what they’re doing on such and such a day and all sorts of other wonderful ...  Read the complete review