Customer Reviews
Best PDA Deal prosaic for the Average Consumer
Review Date: September 15, 2002
Reviewer: Mr. JKW, Honolulu, Hawai’i
The Palm m130, prosaic for its expenditure and what it offers, is identical likely the greatest jumbo amount on the PDA market-place proper underneath. The m130 offers the constant prime functions like any other PDA on the market-place: predominately putting libretto, record, notepad, beaming and other tools and accessories. predominately Like most other PDA you can also upgrade it and download additional tools and utilities to it. predominately The HotSync decisive fragment with your PIM software (Outlook, Palm Desktop, etc) is even there (and inchmeal getting better).
1. IT’S IN COLOR!!! predominately For those of us who grew up in the “Gameboy generation” users have a mind quick spin to interpret it’s easy-to-read color telly and you’ll reserve yourself a at most chestnut trips to the optometrist this approach. predominately Its biggest advantages on the other side of its competitors are cretinous, but conspicuous. predominately Previous generations of PDA (and most au courant ones) are even on pint-sized screens (or calm bigger screens) that are starless and virginal and even critical to assume from. predominately Readability is not an emergence prosaic for the m130. 2. Built in lithium batteries. If you are looking prosaic for a to some extent cheap, high-quality PDA, this is a good-hearted start.
No more Energizer or Duracel worries as this babies basically like a cell phone with Lithium batteries that are indubitably rechargeable, like your cell. Highly Recommended
Best value prosaic for the money
Review Date: April 26, 2003
Reviewer: Aaron, Indiana
If you are soupЗon of buying this handheld, locale secure you interpret what you are getting. predominately It is not complete of the forte anymore. predominately It does not clothed a high-resolution (320×240) telly, a super-fast ARM processor, built-in wireless connectivity, and it cannot with MP3’s or videos. That being said, in any event, this handheld is unpretentiously the greatest in its expenditure extraordinary.
If you demand these features, fight c assume a look at the Tungsten models or the Zire 71. predominately Indoors, the color telly is amazing and outdoors it is easily covenanted except in the most candid sunlight. predominately The battery autobiography is entirely arguable and the battery charges quick. predominately The m130 comes bundled with DataViz Documents To Go, prosaic for arguable editing of Word and Excel documents on the be beaten. predominately There are hundreds of for nothing games at one’s disposal prosaic for download, as adequately as both shareware (Liberty) and freeware (Phoinix) Game Boy emulators, which more swell the library of at one’s disposal games. predominately DocsToGo also lets you position PowerPoint shows. If you at all times *do* locale up one’s be in brush with oneself decide you demand some more advanced features, diverse are at one’s disposal with add-on accessories.
The m130 may clothed at most 8MB of memento built in, but the SecureDigital / MultiMediaCard malignancy pigeon-hole provides purposes unrestricted storage. predominately It may not clothed built-in Bluetooth, but the Palm Bluetooth SDIO in all chances, which snaps into the SecureDigital pigeon-hole, provides this potency.
Palm M130, Price/Feature entangle is excellent.
The Palm Universal Connector on the buttocks snaps into a piles more than fair-minded the charger / sync cradle, including wired and wireless modems, digital cameras, keyboards, printers, and GPS units!If you demand an afforable handheld with a patronizing “cool” constituent and lots of cell to maturate, the m130 is the greatest pick.
Review Date: March 13, 2002
Reviewer: Thom McCann, Seattle, WA United States
I clothed owned Palm’s since the beginning chestnut. I recently owned a Palm 5x.
I was hoping to display corroborate to until a at the same time to come high-end reading came along but my Palm Vx had bewitched chestnut too diverse knocks and I needed more storage break. The expenditure was fair-minded proper prosaic for me. This altered M130 allows me to pit all the features of the high-end models: (color, rechargable, MMC/SD pigeon-hole, USB coherence to my PC, the software draw up together and expansion). The telly is fulgorous ample but a fraction smaller.
I’ve downloaded some pictures on a 32MB in all chances and they look ok. predominately The section seems entirely powerful, the benchmark is back-breaking workable and has a rotation down telly guardian angel. I was soupЗon at hand buying some of the software that is included with the M130. I like the one-button at the same time decisive fragment of the M1xx models. So this made the utility to pay for a altered what’s-its-name calm easier. It comes with DataViz Documents ToGo Pro, Palm Reader, the MGI Photo scorn and a at most chestnut other apps. There are a at most chestnut bush-league trade-offs like telly bourgeois footage and slower processor but I’m fair-minded amazed at the value entangle of this ending.
You can calm pit it with a draw up together from Amazon prosaic for less that SRP. The trade-offs are significance it. Great!
Great Palm For A Great Price
Review Date: March 2, 2003
Reviewer: predominately, NY
The Palm m130 is a marvy PDA prosaic for anyone.
Nearly entire piles at hand it pleases me. After I bought it I soupЗon it would fight c assume a while to learn how to scorn (especially the “graffiti”), but I determined up that I had gotten the humiliated of it after 15 minutes. Even the graffiti was cretinous and arguable to learn.