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The high-quality Blackberry keyboard was excellent for emails and memos. Main downside was that thumbs got tired after using for a long time. Somebody sold a clone of that keyboard to stick on a smartphone...but got sued. Modern screen keyboards are ok for short texts but not anything longer. They have better internet functionality, of course.

That is irritating.

See the XDA link above for clues on using modern big/fast CF and SD cards. You can see the industry standards and timeline for clues about what is possible. Oh...here is the XDA Windows Mobile forum...with some recent posts https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/windows-mobile.612/ There was an old HTC forum with a Windows Mobile section but I don't know where that is. Maybe became XDA? There was an old russian forum that was great but don't know if that still exists. . .

This afternoon, I was using a Dell Axim x51v, which was about the last of the PDAs. WM has incredible Japanese handwriting recognition, and seamlessly works in a dual English-Japanese environment. So is a good electronic dictionary. I use Excel and PDF also but they load a bit slowly. - x51v shipped with the buggy and slow WM5. Upgrade ROM to wm6.1 (A02 dynamite) which is the best I found in terms of speed, stability and features for my dictionaries (as of c. 2014 but you see 2021 development on XDA forums by lennysh those should be better). - Pocket PC Techs offered to upgrade SMD ram from 64 to 128MB. I haven't seen one of these for sale in the used market since ~2010. - The x51v was made around the introduction of some new SD and CF card standards; it's not entirely clear what standards the Axim fell under but it will run fast & big cards (not sure if at full speeds or full compliance lol). Confirmed to run: 256GB "Class 10" SDXC Cards from the SD slot + 128GB from the CF slot (not all cards will work). - The battery cover switch fails (I removed and soldiered the connection) - Batteries don't last too long lol - Headphone out is mediocre. VLC is most updated media but still not a great experience. XDA and Axim-Site were very helpful Windows Mobile forums. XDA still exists but the WM forums got buried in a reorg. Axim-Site was renamed mobilitysite; it is gone but we see an archived version with ROMs below https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/dell-axim-wm6-x-x50v-x51v-x50-x51-sdhc-and-other-cards-support.328460/ https://web.archive.org/web/20081206104114/http://www.mobilitysite.com/boards/