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PDA for LOTS of outlook contacts?
Name: mandika Date: March 21, 2004 at 21:34:51 Pacific OS: Redhat 9 CPU/Ram: athlon 1.2 ghz / 640 mb r
Comment:
I am looking at purchasing a PDA for business use. All that it will be used for is syncing the Outlook contacts. There are about 3500 contacts I wish to store in the PDA. Anyone have a suggestion?
I really do not need any fancy features, but I am concerned that the large number of contacts will not fit into one of the cheaper PDAs with less memory.
Name: zigzogdog Date: April 18, 2004 at 06:40:59 Pacific
Reply:
I would suggest that you buy a Dell. It is a good relaible device - cheaper than the IPaq and more reliable than the Toshiba, and probably better than the Fujitsu.
Wnat any more info - e-mail me and I'll try to talk you through it - how many are you thinking of buying ?
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