V-Tech Helio Review

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V-Tech Helio
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bangkrut.'s Review of V-Tech Helio Pocket PC

6th Mar 2002

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Quality
    5 stars
  • Battery Life
    2 stars
Good Points

abundant memory, very cheap, some applications are usable, voice recording, easy-to-use graffity (easier than palm graffity), quite reliable, easy-to-use sync to pc, good-looking pda, backlit available


Bad Points

very limited applications, not supported anymore by vtech (and others?), very power-hungry (especially with voice recording), occational hang (particularly with rechargable batteries), end-of-development linux os, quite large size (to fit into your palm or pocket), no infra-red, no expandable memory, no physical keyboard, some unexplainable bugs still existed


General Comments

V-Tech Helio PDA --- - Abundant memory keeps your applications and data handy (no need to sync very often)
- VERY CHEAP! no other PDA can match the price
- If you're just using it occasionally and solely for address/phone storage, it's fine. Otherwise, looke elsewhere
- I've been waiting for a year in vain for any games/applications to come up (don't even think about new os update, newer apps/games)
- Don't use voice recording or backlit too often, as this would drain your battery in no time (you don't need to wait for a day to drain your battery for such things!)
- Use alkaline batteries only for reliability and keep a couple of spare batteries. Don't wait until your helio out of battery or you'll loose your data
- In spite of many drawbacks, I will still keep it (well, until I've got some bucks to buy Compaq i-Paq)

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