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User Submitted PalmOne m515 Color Handheld Reviews (cont...)Date: 2003-06-05 Totally Unreliable! I have owned 3 of these beauties within the past 6 months...they work great for a while, then I hotsync it and the Palm freezes up...All the info is erased and the Palm never comes back up/on-line...So, I have sent mine in and received a new one...same exact problem...took it back to Circuit City, got a new one...same exact problem...finally traded it in at Circuit City for the Sony Clie PEG-T665...same exact price, MP3 player...Have not had a problem with it yet and I have had it for 3 months (looking around for some wood to knock on...) Date: 2003-05-26 Great Handheld I got my M515 about two months ago and didn't want to review it until I used it for awhile. Well I can say without a doubt that this is a great device. My PDA background includes originally owning the Palm III then I made the BIG mistake of buying a Windows CE iPaq. I had nothing but trouble with it. The battery life was horrible, hot synching was hard, and it basically required a memory card if you wanted to put anything on it. It was bulky and heavy and after using it for a year and a half I was ready to come back to mother Palm. The m515 is light and has a vibrant display that is joy to look at. Synching with my computer is simple and the memory that comes standard is more than enough. I will never buy another brand again. I learned my lesson. Date: 2003-05-17 It just doesn't work I used to be a Palm enthusiast until I bought this model. A few months after purchse, it stopped hot syncing. When I got a replacement, it also stopped working after a few months. Very disappointing. I wouldn't have written this review, except that the two people I recommended this model to have also experienced the same problem. Date: 2003-05-16 I have bought my last palm I have bought over a dozen palms for employees, friends etc... I thought I would treat myself to the best one for my needs, the m515. This product is a lemon (the whole line not just the 515). Sadly they designed it flawed and after a few months it will no longer synchronize with your pc. The Zire series is the replacement line. However, the first time the M515 went under they denied that the problem ever existed. I then found the problem on a newsgroup (it's called SUDS). When confronted with this fact Palm offered a replacement for a fee... promising that the replacement fixed the problem. Second M515 waited about the same amount of time (5 months) and choked for exactly the same reason. Replaced for a fee again. Third time it choked they want to sell me a refurb at full refurb price. I paid $... for the original and they have put me through the ringer. There is not enough space here for the whole waste of time but suffice it to say that when a company knows a product sucks and won't stand behind it... I am done with them. and you should try another manufacturer. Just my opinion but I am completely disgusted. Date: 2003-05-03 Unit is Good, Cradle Stinks, Photosuite bonus software dodgy Am new to handheld devices, having held off until the prices came down and the durability went up. Ordered the m515 because I wanted a color screen, did not need all the wireless/bluetooth/telephonic bells and whistles of the Tungsten and did not want to start off with a used or less-featured model. Currently, I'm on a steep learning curve, but find the calendar function useful - have not figured out how it can link to the address book, if that is at all possible. (It should be if it is not.) I was dismayed to find that the cradle will not link with my oldish personal laptop. I had tease through all the files to find the .dat files to put on a floppy and installed all the stuff on my more "modern" PC at the office. I'm not too happy at having personal stuff on an employer-owned computer, but if my colleagues can download cricket scores, what the heck. The bonus software for PhotoSuite does not appear to be fully functional. It does not export, despite my having installed it as the admin user as the documents suggest. I "manually" export jpg files to the Palm and then, once they are on the expansion chip, I import them from chip to PhotoSuite. The technical term for that is PITA. The cradle is abominable. I have to clamp the Palm into the cradle with my hands to keep it from disconnecting itself. How hard can it be to seat a device into its own docking unit? I've docked all sorts of gizmos (Mac duos, etc.) and have seated memory chips in Sun workstations, so I am hardly a naive user. This is not a user error issue, but bad design on Palm's part. I wonder if they even shipped me a cradle that is compatible with the unit. I would have preferred getting a charger cable and a connector to the PC as separate items, anyway. The unit itself, with its small size and longish battery life, as well as its capacity for information, keep it from being 3 stars. But, if you are working at Palm, make the Photosuite guys get their act together and do something about that cheesy cradle.
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