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Some PDAs have Life after Death Experiences

2008-02-06 04:31:44 by Christopher Gavula in Gear Diary

I was tooling around eBay recently and it stuck me as interesting that some last generation PDAs, continue to retain a very high value and new, unused versions of these PDAs sell at the same or better than what they originally sold for! Most notable among these are the HP hx4700/4705 and the Dell Axim x50/x51 (especially the “v” variant). digital-fingerprint@geardiary.com

So what’s going on here?

Well I suspect the market is due to a couple of things:

First - until recently, there were no high-end alternatives if you wanted an non-converged device. These devices had VGA displays, Bluethooth, WiFi, could be bumped to 128MB RAM, has 624MHz processors, and had both SD and CF slots. How many converged devices can claim all those performance specs? Not many.

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