Hi everybody, I would like to buy a new PDA (ASUS MyPal 620 BT), but one of the priorities is possibility to make high quality sound recordings as dictaphone (i.e. file containing date/time) directly to mp3. I heard one such recording, but the quality was very poor. I don't know if it is only a problem of the software (and thus if such software exists to fulfil my expectation) or there is hardware limitation. Does anybody know if there is possibility to make high quality recordings with date (or date/time) registered? Thanks for your help.

Most PDAs can record high quality sound without any extra hardware/software its just that there is a distinct lack of memory on most of them. Buy a memory card and set the audio to the highest setting possible if you really need to. All the files are date and time stamped automatically. it ends up being something like 44100KHz, 16 bit stereo or something like that. I couldnt tell you exactly because my PDA is throwing a fit at the moment and refuses to work. Matt matt@bbcomputing.co.uk www.bbcomputing.co.uk

Pda's have the ability to record high quality ie 44.1kHz 16 bit yet because the imputs are so noisy it ends up never achieving this and so the results are low quality. ( or to be pedantic high recording sample rate producing lots of noisy low qulity samples. the signal noise figures for most pda's are usually not known, (62db Sig noise is min good quality cd's are up to 95 db). So you end up trusting unmeasured "opinions" that relie upon many different sets of ears and their associated experience and expectations. (eg Then I got my hands in a Siemens SX66, PocketPc Phone (around $650), and I have to say the sound input is like night and day. You need to use a small preamp if you want to get nice volume levels, but the quality you get is absolutely pro. Years ahead from the dell and the iPaq. ) a unnamed journalist. So its still a lottery unless you can try it out yourself.happy hunting