Matt Legend Gemmell – Dell Axim x51v

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Dell Axim x51v

Following on from my previous two posts, I bought a Dell Axim x51v from Expansys (which is also where my boss got his HP hx4700, seemingly). Should arrive next week; I’ll no doubt be blogging about it in due course, especially about UI on mobile devices. Yummy.

This all of course causes me to be bitten by the Developer’s Curse once again. I am actually tempted to have a shot a tWindows Mobile development. Like in, you know, Visual fucking Studio. That’s scary. I’m also sort of tempted to create a virtual Mac OS X-style PDA application (for OS X, of course), with plugin bundles as applications, just to see how it would look. I’ll never actually do that, of course, but that’s the kind of stuff that goes through my mind when I’m fascinated by a new toy.

Oh, and one other thing, addressed to any companies which trade in the UK: I will never, never buy stuff from you if I call you and get put through to a call-centre in India. I do not want to have to painstakingly enunciate every last word to someone who is barely comprehensible and who likes to lie by saying that his name is “Andy” or “James”. I also do not want to then sit and worry that you got my postcode and street address hideously wrong, and that my expensive piece of gadgetry is winging its way to fucking Milton Keynes or some such place instead of Glasgow. No offense and all, but if you’re trading in the UK then I want your phone monkeys to be Brits. Thank you, and good night. I love you all.

4 Comments

Steve Ivy
19 January 2006 @ 11pm

Your Gemmel-ness.

I actually think that a PDA-style application on OS X would rock. Hook it into iCal and AB and such, PDAs force a conentration on UI, in my opinion, and it would put a lot of stuff in one window. I’d park in the corner of one of my monitors and probably use it throughout the day.

Michael Pecorini
20 January 2006 @ 4am

Congrats on purchase. I had never seen that web site before and it looks as though there pricing is pretty decent. After you receive the PDA can you please comment on well obviously the unit but also you shopping experience. Thanks.

Matt
20 January 2006 @ 9am

Hey Steve,

Yeah I’m sorely tempted to work on the app. Wish I had some time for it! Maybe by the end of Feb I’ll have a bit of personal dev time. I’ll maybe try to spec it or create some mockups before then.

Hi Michael,

I heard that they’re quite decent. They have a live feed for arriving stock, tracking pages and all that stuff. Prices are good too, and their shipping charges are really reasonable. I’ll keep you posted.

ProBizTeam
2 October 2006 @ 5am

Everyone we know who has one of the X51v’s loves it. Our clients have been so pleased with them, that when we got a chance to broker 500 refurbished units we jumped at it. We’ve just started listing them on eBay and the demand for them has been very strong so far.