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User Submitted Fossil Abacus AU5005 Wrist PDA with Palm OS - Black Reviews (cont...)Date: 2005-09-26 excellent this is an excellent item. it's usefull and you can have all your adreess book and date bookk, etc in a watch. it's recomended for the people that don't like to hang up a lot of stuff. Date: 2005-09-22 Love it or hate it I've had my Abacus watch PDA for several weeks. I use it as my regular PDA now; my regular-size PDA has become my backup. The screen, though small, is readable if I set the fonts for a large size. Text entry is fine if I keep the text short; I try to keep a stylus in my pocket so I don't have to fiddle with the one on the watch band. I plug in the USB cable every night for charging and syncing. I find it tremendously convenient to have my schedule on my watch. I hope that they keep improving the unit; I'd like to have longer battery life and a larger screen (maybe keep the watch the same size but reduce the size of the metal frame). Judging from the other responses, this is a love-it-or-hate-it unit. I love it. Date: 2005-09-22 ABACUS PDA Watch Sucks Hey there. I got this PDA Watch 2 weeks ago and hardly have used for 1 hour. Most of the time the watch screen won't respond to the stylus. Advised by the tech-support, I reset the watch everytime and lost data, but with no advantage. There might be bugs in the Palm OS loaded that runs the watch, or just mine one is a defective piece. But in general, its a bad design, with a tiny screen and even a tiner stylus, which needs a magnifying glass to pick and write. Its never cool, neither by size nor by looks nor by functionality. Avoid . Avoid . . Avoid . . . Me ? I am still struggling to catch hold of TigerDirect call center, who would put you on hold for hours, also their music sucks as their product. Date: 2005-09-19 most of the best of 2 worlds I've been using a Palm Pilot since before I started regularly wearing a watch, so my review is a bit biased toward the idea that humans cannot live well under the pressure of modern demands without an external brain extension. That said, this watch is one of the best things I've ever bought for myself. Its benefits far outweigh its drawbacks. Those drawbacks are: * Tiny, tiny screen. Can be hard to read. Not for use by people with poor close-up vision! A magnifying glass, either physical or software (like Teal Magnify) helps with this. * BIG. I am a small-boned woman, and the watch face is as wide as my arm. I have gotten compliments on how stylish it looks, but I've also been mocked for strapping a boat anchor to my wrist. Main issue for me has been that it is too big to slide under the cuff of a long-sleeved shirt. * Short battery life. I forgot to charge it three nights in a row, and had to restore all my data from a backup the next day. (Fortunately, that process is really easy -- just keep it synced to your PC or Mac and data loss on the watch is no reason to panic.) It really does need to be charged at least every other day. On the other hand, if you have a cell phone, a Palm Pilot, or other device that needs frequent charging, the watch can just be added to those habits; it's possible to find equipment to charge it from a wall outlet, a USB port, or even a car lighter port. * NOT AT ALL water-resistant. This is not a watch you can put on and forget about. You cannot leave it on in the shower, or fail to protect it in heavy rain. Those issues aside, the thing is just outright useful. It will run most software made for the Palm, excepting software for OS 5. There isn't much software made specifically for it, but what is out there is good. Its main benefit it that it's strapped to you, all day every day, so unlike a larger full-size Pilot, it won't be in your purse or the pocket of your other jacket at home when you need it. It doesn't really have enough memory to fill some of the functions I demand of my T|T3 (English-Japanese-Spanish dictionaries & translation, Mapopolis, Office file editing and storage) but it has plenty of room for daily things: multiple alarms that actually tell you WHY your watch just went off (through datebook), phone numbers, email addresses, birthday reminders, a game or an ebook for emergency entertainment, and Handy Shopper -- shopping list freeware I can't do without any more. For example, imagine that you've just discovered you're out of salt. You don't have to find a pen and dig out a grocery list; just make note of it on your wrist. Next time you're in the grocery store, that item will show up with all the others you've put in at the touch of a drop-down menu. Or imagine you've called Information for a number but can't find a pen. Why bother? Jot it down on your wrist. Thought of something you need to do tomorrow? Friend just told you title and author of a book you want to read? No matter what the datum is, no matter where you are, you can finally track all of this on the spot. No more writing phone numbers on your hands and trying to remember not to wash them off until you get home! Seriously. It has too many drawbacks to succeed as a casual purchase; most watches perform specialized watch functions better, and most Palm Pilots perform serious palmtop data-crunching or -storage better. but in those two little niches -- stuff you want to write down now before it can be forgotten and stuff you need to be reminded of with text instead of just something going "beepbeepbeep" -- this thing really shines. And the more you remember to use it, the less you'll ever be able to do without it again. Date: 2005-09-14 Great buy Overall i think that the wrist PDA is a great buy. It has great functionality and fits all on your wrist! It's great to have contacts, appointments, memos, etc right on your wrist. I didn't want to carry around a PDA or a PDA-cellphone so this is great. Now i can organize my life on my wrist and just get a small cellphone for my pocket. I used to have a Timex Datalink watch and loved it too. But it had one downfall, you couldn't input info into with out being at a computer. This watch solves this problem. It does have a few downfalls though. 1. It is big. It is pretty big. It's small enough that most people don't notice it but you have to watch out when working because the watch can get caught on things since it is so big. Also got to watch out for those long sleeved shirts that are tight on you. 2. Is it really stylish? They say it is stylish in watch description but i still can't decide whether i like it's looks or not. My wife says she likes it better than my old watch which was much smaller so i guess it's not too bad. 3. Watch faces shown don't come with it. The watch faces shown in the description don't all come with the watch by default. 4. Battery life could be better. I usually recharge my watch everyday when i synch it. On weekends i wish the battery would last a bit longer. The watch usually goes out at the end of the second day which kind of sucks.
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