Boys and Their Toys!

I have a new toy! Well not so new since it's used, but new to me nonetheless.

I visited my friend in Portland over the weekend and we got to talking about my continued desire to find a PDA that has a nice keyboard (the ones with the small buttons don't fit my fingers). It turns out that he still was up to selling off his old JasJar (pictured here) from i-mate.

The last time we talked about his selling it, I had a bit of a budget constraint so I passed. But this time, I was not so hard up for cash. After a bit of initial frustration, I am finding that I actually like the upgrade; even though I still love my old Dell Axim X5.

The frustration stemmed from the fact that the JasJar kept locking up on me and I had to do hard resets every time. It turns out that some of the programs I was trying to install were not compatible. After upgrading those programs, it worked like a dream.

Of course, since I’m so anal about customization, I have yet to get the entire thing up and running to a point that I can leave my Axim home. Carrying around two PDAs is a bit… cumbersome.