OK, I have finally admitted to myself that I need some kind of personal organiser!

I need to keep better records of important dates but I am not a diary kind of guy - also being partial to the odd gadget or 2 I am thinking about getting a PDA.

I already am happy with my mobile phone, and hava a laptop but I need something purely for recording dates/contacts and maybe the odd bit of pocket office if I can stretch to it.

I should be getting £80 to play with in a week or 2 (Mrs first wage packet for 6 years!) so that's pretty much my budget.

Happy to go ebaying if required.

Can I get something that fit's the bill for that?

What would you guys recommend?

Anything to watch out for?

Can I sync it with my laptop - I run Thunderbird not Outlook so probably not methinx.

Thanks in advance,

Steven

Anything to watch out for?

The Mrs wanting to spend her own wages, perhaps?

Plenty out there, but I find the ipac quite good

dell's are good but have poor batteries, hp better. I have a top spec axim and use it only for satnav, tried other things but just found it too slow or small. Eg opening 1 meg pdf was pointless and that was the 624mhz axim. Mine can run a simple powerpoint presentation ok which I suppose is pretty good, I guess I just wanted too much from it and was dissapointed with the results.

You'll be pushed to find many Dell's left - they've stopped doing PDA's.

Which leaves HP on a clear romp. I use a hx2790 also with TomTom and BT GPS.

Clay tablet - works for me.

:sofahide:

You'll be pushed to find many Dell's left - they've stopped doing PDA's.

Which leaves HP on a clear romp. I use a hx2790 also with TomTom and BT GPS.

When I was looking last week they were selling the middle tier one still with 30% off obviously to clear. Wondered what had happened to the rest of them.

LOL, my X5 took a right bashing before finally dying with a screen fault which was more expensive than a new one.

HONEST SWMBO!

I have a Plam Tungsten T (an old model now) but it is still going strong. It synchronises with Outlook and other software and can do Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Adobe Pdf etc. as well as photos and ebooks Bluetooth etc. I got it as a refurbished returned item from the Luzerntech shop on ebay and the price was good (£53 with all cradles, cables and software). They have a limited range but are cheap so may be worth checking out.

What sort of phone do you have at the moment? lot's of modern phones have the ability to sync with windows and maintain calenders etc. Could be you already have the perfect device in your pocket, but just never used it to it's full potential?

There are lots of office compatible office applications for the Symbian series phones and plenty of apps for palm / Windows mobile based devices.

Going off topic, but you can put a PDA Rom onto a Nintendo DS and still play games etc etc ...... could be an option if you have a DS

I have a SE K850i

I know it has a calendar function but I don't like it and I am looking for a wee bit more functionality.

My wee girl has a DS, I have a PSP but wouldn't want to carry it around everywhere.

I have a Plam Tungsten T (an old model now) but it is still going strong. It synchronises with Outlook and other software and can do Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Adobe Pdf etc. as well as photos and ebooks Bluetooth etc. I got it as a refurbished returned item from the Luzerntech shop on ebay and the price was good (£53 with all cradles, cables and software). They have a limited range but are cheap so may be worth checking out.

I just searched Ebay for Luzerntech - is that the correct spelling?

Cheers.

HP Ipaqs tend to be leading the way at the moment, try to get a newer one if going secondhand because the older ones have a tendancy to forget everything when the battery goes flat. This in itself is no problem if you are near a pc you can sync with, but is a pain when miles away out on the road and you lose all your appointments.

I have a Plam Tungsten T (an old model now) but it is still going strong. It synchronises with Outlook and other software and can do Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Adobe Pdf etc. as well as photos and ebooks Bluetooth etc. I got it as a refurbished returned item from the Luzerntech shop on ebay and the price was good (£53 with all cradles, cables and software). They have a limited range but are cheap so may be worth checking out.

I also use a Palm - a Tungsten T3. Having also used an HP, I much prefer the Palm, especially the software - Palm Desktop.

I just searched Ebay for Luzerntech - is that the correct spelling?

Cheers.

And as if by magic the link appears...

eBay.co.uk Shop - LuzernTech: PDA: Palm Tungsten E2 PDA Organizer with Bluetooth

THey have quick a lot of Plams at the minute and the closest to the one I have is the T2 (successor to my T which I chose because it is much more comapct than others due to it's slide design).

I use a Dell Axim X51 for contacts, diary, Web and Sat Nav. A very good PDA.

I use it with Outlook and it works a treat. I use Thunder bird to, but it has no support for sync.

Found it - cheers!

I would also suggest an 'eBay' Palm Pilot.

Reasons are; they are easy to use & reliable & if you get yourself a cheap one & sync it regularly it won't matter too much if you break or lose it.

nothing wrong with that.My batteries haven't run out in 15 years.Its my bible:thumbup:

Best one I ever had was an 8yr old Psion 5.

10 hours running off 2xAA batteries. No need to recharge just swap for more batteries. Office compatible, full qwerty keyboard etc etc.

Keyboard makes a big difference, handwriting with a stylus sucks.

I bought one for £30 used it for a couple of years then sold it on again for £35.

Fleabay has lots, also lots of quite cheap other organisers.