WM5 VGA devices?

[adambravo]

The crappy battery life on my upgraded Dell X50v and Dell's apparently willingness to blow off customers has me thinking, "So what next?"

I'm looking for a WM5 VGA device without a camera. Does such a device exist?

Adam

[vicott]

How about Acer n311? It's really value-for-money and the form factor is great.

[pdaadp]

definitely would consider this....

there's some info on it at infosync.com and all over the web actually....

acer.com has it listed too as the n300 with 128/64mb config with bluetooth and wifi....

haven't found it for sale anywhere on www yet though...

[dragonhand]

In a review of the Acer which I read, the reviewer had mixed feelings. Though it looks great and size is phenomenal, in actual operation, particularly video, the device is wanting.

I got the Axim x51v a couple of weeks ago, and am quite happy with it. As for battery usage, the utility I have estimates battery life at about 5 1/2 hours. Not bad, and with the ability to charge a second battery in the cradle, take the little thing with you, and swap batteries without causing a hard reset, I don't see battery time being an issue.

[pdaadp]

are you referring to the infosync review or a diff one that mentions the not so good vid quality?

got a link?

[dragonhand]

The review is at PDAgold.com

http://www.pdagold.com/articles/detail.asp?a=268

The reviewer goes through the "downsides" toward the end of the article.

[pdaadp]

ahh...geez

one of the main things i do is watch dvd movies on my tosh in vga...

i know there are no "perfect" pdas....but video quality has to be a strong point...for me anyways...

[dragonhand]

I converted a professionally made DVD of my wedding to a 640x480 avi file using Omniquiti's Lathe. Runs beautifully with TCPMP on my Axim, and looks great.

[pdaadp]

Originally posted by dragonhand
I converted a professionally made DVD of my wedding to a 640x480 avi file using Omniquiti's Lathe. Runs beautifully with TCPMP on my Axim, and looks great.

i use tcpmp as well and i am watching dvd quality movies....

how do you like lathe? i saw it recently on the pocketdivxencoder website... looks like it does the same exact thing that pdxe did, except with a nicer interface...

did you run pdxe prior to lathe coming out? if so, do you notice any video quality increasing? or is it just the gui that changed?

thanks

[dragonhand]

No I haven't used pdxe. Lathe is quite easy to use, has lots of audio and video options to control how the file is converted, and made a very sharp video with good audio quality. I think it's an excellent program.