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New nav computer/Skype phone/PDA aboard!
Dell delivered my Dell Axim X51v pocket mainframe, today. Runs MS
Windoze Mobile 5.01 on a 624 Mhz Intel PDA processor. Bluetooth won't talk to any BT headsets for my Skype, but it's sitting here as I type this playing KPIG's 128Kbps MP3 streaming audio off my wifi router full speed. The audio lacks bass, but what can you expect from a speaker that's only 1/4" across!...(c; Skype for Mobile 1.2 is now available for free from skype.com's website. Just download the .cab file directly off wifi to the Axim and click YES when it warns you it doesn't know this guy and do you want to continue to install it. You put in your skype name and password and it goes and gets your contact list from Skype's server, same one you use at home. Turn on echo cancellation as the Axim's mic and speaker make a helluva great hands-free phone if you don't mind everyone listening to your call. The Wifi transceiver and Bluetooth transceiver are first class and very sensitive. I sat on the seawall at home talking to a friend in Hawaii on it this afternoon on Skype. Should have no trouble connecting to the marina wifi to give you cheap/free phone service on the boat. Even if your boat is too far from the wifi hotspot....just carry the PDA "pocket phone" down the dock to make those calls. You don't need to be tied to the laptop. There's a freeware media player TCPMP available from the genius hackers who write its code and codecs to play Divx/Xvid/MP4 movies and all the audio codecs. That's the player playing KPIG as I type this.... WinMobile 5 has all kinds of GPS and Bluetooth GPS support. I haven't had time to research the nav aspect of it, but on a powerful processor like this it'll be great. There's a few bugs in Mobile 5 Windoze, of course, it's Micro$oft, you know.... $374 from Dell, direct. Others said $350 net price. It's a lot of power at this price. I found a 4GB SD memory card for it for $78 on the net....not the $130-250 Circuit City wanted.... -- There's amazing intelligence in the Universe. You can tell because none of them ever called Earth. |
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