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User Submitted PalmOne m515 Color Handheld Reviews (cont...)Date: 2005-05-08 Great Handheld for Students I bought myself a Palm M515 after I destroyed the screen on my M100. I have been using the M515 for three years and have had no problems whatsoever. Any student interested in a Palm handheld should give the M515 serious consideration. This device has proven very useful in tracking homework, projects, and tests. Only complaint is no wireless capabilities without the use of Palm's bulky add-on modem (Nearly every school has their own wireless network). Date: 2005-02-05 it lasted less than a year I had my palm for 2yrs but only had it activated for about 3 months I would not recomend this product to anyone.I liked it when it worked but the durability is horrible.I had my palm stored in the box it came in for about one and half years.When I wanted to use it agian it will not work and palm wants to charge $125 to replace. I wouldnt give them $125 for something that has let me down the way this machine has. I paid almost $400 for it and used it for 3 months Date: 2004-11-11 A Totally Disappointing Product I, too, had a similar experience to several of the other reviewers. I purchased this Palm and it worked well for about a year and then suddenly it wouldn't sync anymore. I searched this website and others and found that the great majority of buyers have experienced the same thing. I am a medical student and several other medical students and residents would approach me with amazement saying "Yours still works? Mine died after about a year!" I don't see anyone in the hospital using this Palm anymore, even though many are using other old Palms and Sony Clie models. I read about the SUD (Sudden USB Death) effect on this and other websites, but when I called Palms Customer Service I was just sent on multiple goose chases. Basically this product was the poorest investment I have ever been involved with. After investing in expensive software that can only be installed on a single device and then having the device fail months after installation, I feel doubly disappointed. I wouldn't purchase another m515 in a million years. Please learn from my experience. Date: 2004-07-20 Worked great for about a year I absolutely loved this handheld until it stopped syncing. When I started having this issue I contacted Palm immediately. They said it was a problem with static electricity - or something like that - and promised to send me a card to reset the thing. Well they took months to send it and it still didn't work. Now my warranty is over and they won't honor my claim although it started during the warranty period. I am not going to pay $125.00. It just isn't worth it. Now it is nothing more than a play toy for my children. I started with a Palm xe, then a Palm IIIc, and ended up with a Palm m515. The Palm xe literally fell apart - the buttons snapped apart making it useless. When the Palm IIIc stopped working, I gave Palm the $125 to refurbish my unit which they did. Then about a year later it was accidentally put into the laundry while I was in the hospital after giving birth to my daughter, which is how I ended up with the m515. Now, just over a year later my Palm m515 just stopped working. As much as I miss my Palm, I can't justify giving Palm another $125 to "refurbish" my unit or go out and purchase another brand new unit for $200 or more. I have spent SO much money on Palm PDA's and related items over the last three or four years that I feel like a junkie. I've been doing my research here at Amazon trying to find out if Sony is any better and it seems they are pretty much the same. The irony is that Palm is selling products that do so much, but if you use all of the functionality, you drastically limit the life of the unit. So until these guys can make a sturdier product that has a longer life, they have lost me as a customer. And COME ON, give us a replaceable freaking battery already!
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