PDA with sim card?

johnnycorcoran

hey all,
Im interesting in getting PDA but im interesting in getting sim card onto a PDA..i was trying to search for those kind of PDA and I must get the wrong way.any special word for it? like on google 'pda and sim card' etc? or know any web link??

would be a big help from you guys

Johnny

mkennedy

johnnycorcoran wrote: »

hey all, Im interesting in getting PDA but im interesting in getting sim card onto a PDA..i was trying to search for those kind of PDA and I must get the wrong way.any special word for it? like on google 'pda and sim card' etc? or know any web link?? would be a big help from you guys Johnny

Are you looking for a pda-phone?
AFAIK you can get cf-based gprs units that take data sims that you can put in a cf slot in a pda but I don't think you can get sdio- based units (for sd slots).
Not sure if you can convert a pda into a phone (gsm) this way though, they're probably only for data (gprs).

As for pda-phones (as opposed to smartphones) you're looking at things like the old ipaq hw6515/6915, one of hp's first attempts at a pda-phone. The 6915 is a pda, phone and has wifi, gps and hardware keyboard.

Other pda-phones are things like:
Fujitsu-Siemens T830, a heavyish pda-phone with 3g, gps and keyboard.

You also got the XDA series of pda-phones like the old mini-s (HTC wizard) with a slider keyboard but with a poorish processor;
the O2 xda orbit with gps but same (underperforming?) processor; the tytn (Hermes) with slider qwerty but it's bulky;
the tytn II (Kaiser) with tilting screen/hardware qwerty and gps/3g but it's heavy; the HTC p3600 with gps/3g/nice form factor but no keyboard.

Then you got things like the Eten X500/X800/M700/M800 etc which are also heavily specced (3g/wifi/gps/qwerty etc).

Or Toshiba G900 (heavy, No GPS but has VGA screen).

Or stuff like Palm devices like their Treos 650/680/750 etc.
Specs-wise they aren't stunning (e.g no wifi afaik)
but the older ones use the palm OS which is regarded as easier to use/more intuitive than the WinMobile OS that all the devices above use.
Of note the 680, curiously, is one of the fewer older devices that take the new SDHC cards (so potentially upto 32gb storage).

The iphone, SE and nokia phones are all smartphones, not pda-phones.
They're phones first, pdas second as opposed to all the devices mentioned above.
Maybe you'd also be interested in those as well I dunno.

The latest pda-phone from HTC is the Touch-Cruise, which, apart from it not having a hardware keyboard and an issue with its video driver apparently, is the best specced pda-phone around at the moment imho: HSDPA, wifi, gps, fm tuner, 3mp camera, TouchFLO interface, nice light form factor, micro-sdhc.

tallus

I have a Palm Treo 750v and it's an excellent piece of hardware.

Loggie

I echo mkennedys comments particularly in relation to the HTC Touch Cruise on which I am patiently waiting. I found the following websites useful for reviews and research etc.
www.gsmarena.com
www.expansys.ie
www.pdadb.net
www.xda-developers.com
www.tracyandmatt.co.uk
www.devicewire.co.uk

Hope these help

By the way mkennedy check this out looks like the cruise with vga
http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/index.php

johnnycorcoran

Thanks mkennedy..
learn alots about it..cheers for write back..thanks again for your help..also just looking at tallus 'Palm Treo 750v' as looking great..alots of money for it..is it unlocked?

Johnny

mkennedy

Loggie wrote: »

I echo mkennedys comments particularly in relation to the HTC Touch Cruise on which I am patiently waiting. I found the following websites useful for reviews and research etc. www.gsmarena.com www.expansys.ie www.pdadb.net www.xda-developers.com www.tracyandmatt.co.uk www.devicewire.co.uk Hope these help By the way mkennedy check this out looks like the cruise with vga http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/index.php

Can't see the TouchCruise with VGA tbh in that link.
Do you mean the new Eten V900- couldn't see vga in its specs either.

Anyway tbh I was never too pushed about vga really
How much clearer can stuff appear on a 2.8 screen- never really understood that concept.

Thanks.

dingding

I have a HP IPAQ 514 which is a windows mobile 6 device in a phone footprint. Does not have 3G but it has wireless and bluetooth.

It is about 250 unlocked.

tallus

johnnycorcoran wrote: »

Thanks mkennedy..
learn alots about it..cheers for write back..thanks again for your help..also just looking at tallus 'Palm Treo 750v' as looking great..alots of money for it..is it unlocked?

Johnny

Hi Johnny, mine is unlocked yes, I didn't buy it tho, I traded another phone for it. They are pricy to buy sim free but there's one going on adverts.ie sim free for 180euro. It doesn't have wifi tho. You can buy a wifi card for it for around 45euro.

Spipov

yep, thats the one im selling

not a bad phone, i use the orbit myself and the treo is a surplus.

ASTRACLUB

QTEK9000 is the best boys
it does everything, you name it and it has it
dont buy anything
...
Qtek rules in PDA and new technology
HP.IPAQ etc are just copy cats.

YASH

mkennedy

ASTRACLUB wrote: »

QTEK9000 is the best boys it does everything, you name it and it has it dont buy anything ... Qtek rules in PDA and new technology HP.IPAQ etc are just copy cats. YASH

The Qtek 9000 is just a rebranded HTC Universal (same device as the O2 Exec/I-mate Jasjar).
TBH the Qtek 9000 was cutting-edge 2 years ago but hardly today.

It lacks GPS and other features that newer devices such as the Tytn II and Touch-Cruise have.

And it's a brick really- unless you don't mind the weight in which case you could just go the whole hog and get a HTC Advantage which isn't much heavier and is a much more powerful mini-computer with GPS.