Dell has stopped selling its Axim line of handhelds and is not planning a new product in the category, the computer maker said on Monday. "The Axim X51 family is no longer being offered, and we have no plans for a follow-on product at this time," Dell spokeswoman Anne Camden said in an email. Camden noted that the company does sell handhelds from other makers on its website, including GPS devices and smartphones.
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What a bummer! I have had an Axim X51v for about 18 months, and I love it! I never thought I'd use a PDA until my wife bought it for me for Christmas. Now I don't know what I'd do without it. Works just fine with my new Gateway MT6456 laptop running Vista Home Premium.
Looks like I might need to visit the Dell Outlet store online and get me another Axim just in case....
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PDA is one of those products that can either be perfect or a total failure. The OS and UI usability just isn't there at the moment. Dell does not make and OS and UI and therefore cannot produce anything useful other than a shiny case. So, the headline should be "Dell gives up on trying to make a useful hand held computer." It will take some other company to make the PDA hot again; maybe Nintendo or Apple. It's time to quit milking the Palm Pilot. Remember, Apple did not milk the Walkman; they reinvented it.
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<PDA is dead, smartphones are here to prove it.>
You could be right. But when I was shopping a couple of years ago, it didn't make economic sense to buy the combo products - you could get higher specs for less $$ by buying seperate appliances. It was true with both PDA/phones and GPS/PDAs.
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You could be right. But when I was shopping a couple of years ago, it didn't make economic sense to buy the combo products - you could get higher specs for less $$ by buying seperate appliances. It was true with both PDA/phones and GPS/PDAs.
That's fine if you have enough pockets (and I mean to put them in, not to fork money out of).
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even if they haven't the last few models have been only available in Japan and have been expensive to import 
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I never used an Axim, but read that they were decent. I lost interest in stand-alone PDAs when PDA-based phones became reasonably affordable and haven't looked at PDAs since. I was a big fan of them six years ago, I had a Casio E-100, a Palm IIIxe, and a Handspring Visor at different times.
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From what I heard (Computerra.ru magazine says that), HTC was the OEM manufacturer for Dell (Axim), HP (4700) and other successful models. Now that HTC is on the market with its own brand, perhaps they're not prolonging old contracts, which makes Dell impossible to continue Axim line.
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Sorry, but these things are a dieing breed. I had an Axim when they first came out, prior to the BlackBerry boom and SmartPhones. It was great at the time, but since using an BB8700 I've never gone back. The BB or SP has all the PDA features, plus a phone, and it's all real-time.
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