source=Russell McMahon  says:
> >  
> Summary: Comments from past or present Jornada 545 or 548 
> owners sought.  

Kind of old thread, but I have one 545 so I can share my experience with
it.

I mainly use it with a WiFi card to check email without having to use
the desktop and wherever I am in the house. One advantage of doing it
before checking email with Outlook is that I get rid of the viruses and
spam easily.

I have a GPS CF card working fine, but I have found three problems when
using it with the Jornada:
- the metallic case seems to filter out the satellite signals. If I want
a decent reception I have to use the external antenna. I have tried the
same GPS CF card in a Dell Axim and it worked without the externall
antenna really well.
- the screen is not visible on sunny light.
- the memory is too low to load any commonly available bitmap based map.
Vector streets maps might be okay.

I thought I could use it to take notes on talks, but I'm too slow
compared to hand writing on paper. Then I got the Stowaway foldable
keyboard, which is a nice thing, but haven't used it much really since
you need a flat surface to put it on. It could be a nice replacement for
a laptop to send/receive email on trips, connecting through the cell via
a Bluetooth CF card.

Sadly, the majority of the latest software/drivers is for ARM based
CPUs. Something important to check before buying add-on cards...


Regards,
Moises Cambra



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