Mobile Traveller - Tips & Tricks

[HITS-UK]

With my ever-shrinking hand-luggage allowance, IT has had to take centre stage. Laptops that you have to be Arnie to lug around are no longer an option and on busy flights I have seen attendants (wagon-dragons) chuck non-laptop carry-ons into the hold. Enter the Palm Platforms which can now do ALMOST everything that you need to do in a business day. These have been around for ages, but it seems that the demise of the Clié has also seen a limited number of postings in this section. My team all have NZ90s or UX50s with Motorola V3 mobiles. These are standard issue and if you add:

Agendus Pro (Iambic Software)
NavMan Professional - GPS Worldwide Software (to post code level in over 50% of the world)
Documents To Go

You have virtually everything that Microsoft Office can give you in the Palm of your hand with battery life that makes it functional. Bluetooth and 802.11b gives your connectivity and voila - mobile user to go.

Got any suggestions - keep 'em coming!

[kee-lo_]

James has the UX50 and he was able to help his friend get his keys out of the car, neat or what?

[HeartOfDarkness]

I also am a happy owner of a TH-55 and is more flabbergasted every day to see such a great little handheld computer (for that *is* what it is, I could't agree with you more) left to die by Sony, when they could, with some marketing punch they know how to apply in other markets (see the game-console market, for instance), have taken a vital role in the handheld market and industry.

Why make a great product to let it die only a few months later ?

I have a question: do you know where to get that GPS system you mentionned ? Do you only use the software or do you also use your UX-50s with a GPS receiver, and if so, what brand are they and do they work well ? I'm trying to get info on the (very) few GPS solutions available to the last Clié handheld platforms, some info about yours would be most welcome. 🙂

[HITS-UK]

The GPS solution is from NavMan and requires two elements:

1. Bluetooth built into your PDA
2. An external GPS transceiver

The kit I bought was all from Navman including the receiver, software and the maps. Through a mix up at the point of sale I managed to contact Navman in the UK and managed to get the European maps as well as the North American so I am now covered for all travel. I just add the area to which I am travelling and off we go. The UX50 communicates with the GPS transceiver and with the Bluetooth in car hands-free kit, the voice instructions come through the main system. Neat or what!

[HeartOfDarkness]

Neat or what!

lol Always, with Cliés, I'd have to say.

The software was provided on a MemoryStick, or did you have to transfer them to a Memory Stick from a SD or Compact Flash or something else ?

It is also hard to find exact specifications stating that it runs on a PalmOS PDA regardless of their makes / CPU / etc, and even harder to find specifications stating "Clié TH-55 / UX-50 compatible".

Thank you for your answers ! 🙂

[HeartOfDarkness]

Neat or what!

lol Always, with Cliés, I'd have to say.

The software was provided on a MemoryStick, or did you have to transfer them to a Memory Stick from a SD or Compact Flash or something else ?

It is also hard to find exact specifications stating that it runs on a PalmOS PDA regardless of their makes / CPU / etc, and even harder to find specifications stating "Clié TH-55 / UX-50 compatible".

Thank you for your answers ! 🙂

[kee-lo_]

I just fail to comprehend why Sony killed the Clié in Europe, whats wrong with you Sony?

Can't you see people love them?

If this was VAIO there would be riots!

[seb21__]

Can't you see people love them? 

Maybe the question is how much people love them.:smileysad:

[kee-lo_]

Yeah I think people should complain here.

[HeartOfDarkness]

I had learned after lenghty enquiries that they'd been stopped because of the low-profits from that branch...

Which I still fail to understand since all reviews for the TH55 where excellent, there was (in France at least) a regular "trend" thing going about having a Clié, and even now, I can see on my forum how some people try to find ways to buy used Cliés TH55 or UX-50...

And technically and design-wise, what a babe !

'don't get it... :-S