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Looking for a PDA with Wlan and bluetooth...   
Hi everyone,
I'm looking for a PDA which will be used predominantly as a GPS for my car, 
but would like to have wireless lan as well (preferably the 801.11 g) for 
using internet abroad. It'll need to have 2 expansion slots (1 for gps and 1 
for a memory card)  and preferably a 600Mhz processor so that I won't need 
to upgrade it any time soon. I saw a Dell Axim X50v 2 weeks ago at dell.com 
for under 280 but now it's 314.  I wanted to know if:
1) Anyone has seen them at the outlet as I was searching for them with no 
luck
2) Is there a better alternative around the same price mark?
3) Are there any discount codes for dell or are there any announcements of 
price drops?
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Raphael
Date:Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:32:04 +0200   Author:  

Re: Looking for a PDA with Wlan and bluetooth...   
You could use the dell axim X30 higher model, which I just got from
dell for around £190.  I think Dell may have put the price up again
lately, but you can also get it cheap from www.totalpda.co.uk or EBay.
It only has one slot, but you could use the bluetooth to connect to a
bluetooth GPS unit, leaving the SD slot free for the memory.  There are
lots of bluetooth GPS units on EBay.

X30 is being discontinued very soon, so if you care about having the
latest model you may want to go for the X50 instead.  However, the X30
is a lot cheaper and I beleive slightly smaller and lighter.

Dave.
Date:11 Aug 2005 01:42:39 -0700   Author:  

Re: Looking for a PDA with Wlan and bluetooth...   
Our work pda is the HP2410 which has bluetooth and wireless.
Very nice little unit in my experience.
Date:Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:54:14 GMT   Author:  

Re: Looking for a PDA with Wlan and bluetooth...   
"R45six"  wrote in message 
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> Our work pda is the HP2410 which has bluetooth and wireless.
> Very nice little unit in my experience.
>


Thanks guys,
I think that I'll be looking into the dell or some of the high end ipaqs. 
Does anyone have any discount codes for some of the online stores selling 
them? Thanks for your help,
Regards,
Raph
Date:Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:42:55 +0200   Author:  

Re: Looking for a PDA with Wlan and bluetooth...   
"Rafal Karwin-Krawczyk"  wrote:



>Thanks guys,
>I think that I'll be looking into the dell or some of the high end ipaqs. 


Here you go:
http://www.totalpda.co.uk/Dell-Axim-X30-Performance---624Mhz---WiFi.aspx

Faster processor, bluetooth, wifi, one SD slot. Grab a bluetooth gps unit
- sorted!
-- 

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Fr Jack
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Date:Fri, 12 Aug 2005 16:31:27 +0100   Author: