Palm IIIxe

I received a Palm IIIxe as a Christmas Gift. Boy was I surprised The Palm IIIxe is the best in it class even though there is a Palm VII. Considering the Palm IIIxe only cost $250.00(Staples price. Storage: 400 E-mails, 8 years of appointments, 300 to do items, 1000 memos and much more. E-mail - your can E-mail if your are using outlook express of lotus, if not you will need a modem to e-mail and to receive e-mail. Memory: The Palm IIIxe has 8 megabytes of Ram which is more than enough since most programs are not more than 50 bytes. The only program that is more than that is Avantgo but I will tell you more about that later on. You can ...  Read the complete review

Yes, before you ask, I'm perfectly aware of the connotations attached to owning a PDA. I realise it's modern equivalent of the eighties yuppie favourite, the Filofax, but, as it turns out, my Palm IIIxe is one of the most useful things I've ever bought. The IIIxe is the most powerful handheld in the III series (and is no less powerful than the flagship Vx) with a processor that's more than capable of handling anything you care to throw at it, including video files. More importantly, it comes with a whopping 8Mb of memory to store all your data and add-on applications. This is remarkable when you consider that the biggest 'PalmOS' apps ...  Read the complete review

The Palm IIIxe is a great little machine with lots of support from its users. It has some great features that you can read about in other reviews in this section, and yet I would strongly advise avoiding making this purchase. I bought one from buy.com in February and it drained batteries far too quickly. In a fortnight I went through four sets with only moderate use - a single set is supposed to last around a month. I called Palm and they said I should return the unit to them and to receive a replacement. It took them three weeks to actually send the replacement, and that only happened after I badgered them constantly. After they had left me without a ...  Read the complete review

The Palm III xe isnt a bad machine. There. Okay a little more? Well the reason I bought a plam was that evryone else seemd to have one - and I didn't want to be left out. The deal I got from Pc World was pretty good. A Palm IIIxe, the mobile internet kit, and a datacable to connect to my mobile for £99 all in. This was the main reason I went for the IIIxe over its newer M100 model. The Palm is driven by the newer OS3.5 system, rather then the older 3.0 software. Whichever palm you seem to buy, they all run on the same platform, meaning that this little machine runs in the same way the higher V series runs. The unit ...  Read the complete review

Why buy the IIIxe?--Palm's latest offering. How does it compare in features with the other Palm's available? Particulary the IIIc and Vx which are about 75-100 pounds more? - Memory is top of the range with 8Mb, same as the Vx or IIIc. Friends who've been loading applications and e-mails into their Palms for a couple of years says this is masses, even for power users. - It is monochrome, the only one with colour is the IIIc (though a Vc is coming next year). Does that matter? Colour is fun if you're into games; if your focus is e-mails, calendars, and serious stuff, it is probably not worth the extra money. - Physically it ...  Read the complete review