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    Can anyone give me some help on buying a PDA.
    Looking for something inexpensive or even used.
    what brands,types,uses??

    #1746538

    That all depends on your preference. The Palm OS market is pretty large, and there are many to choose from.

    The Windows based PDAs are also popular, and probably more powerful. But again that depends on what you want to do with it, besides geocaching.

    If you are going to use it for an appointment calendar, and for paperless geocaching, my suggestion would be to get used one maybe on ebay or an inexpensive Palm based Zire. http://www.palmone.com/us/products/handhelds/zire/

    For $79, you will get exactly what you want as described above.

    However, if you are really going to get into wireless, and want more of a pocket PC, then take a look at something like an HP iPAQ h1945 Pocket PC http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009RL1W/002-3280931-8102410?v=glance which is about $300.

    I plan on having a paperless geocaching clinic with someothers who use windows based PDAs, as I use Palm OS. Come to that and take a look at what is there. Maybe that will help? See “paperless Geocaching” in this “General” Forum.

    [This message has been edited by WISearchers (edited 03-28-2004).]

    #1746539

    Let me append what I said about the &79 Zire. It has 2 MB of memory, which is enough for 1 “Plucker” paperless set of 500 caches. Those files run about 1300K. That should be enough, even if you have thousands of addresses and phone number. But if you want to have multiple files for different states and areas, then you would want to look at 4MB or 8MB.

    I have an old Handspring Neo that has 8MB. That has always been plenty, and I can hold 3 or more large files as described above.

    #1746540

    If you’re still looking, take a look at this thread…. http://wi-geocaching.com/forums/Forum13/HTML/000019.html

    I’ve still got the one left with the broken flip cover etc…

    email me if interested…

    Bill
    Team Flushingrouse
    [email protected] <— Remove Caps

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