VinPetrol

i heard about someone using one for a navigation device in his car.

is there much else you can do with em other than boring work crap ?

OllyK

Use my for SatNav with TomTom
Has my diary and contacts in it - it will also dial my phone for me which can be useful when it is in it's hands free cradle.
By connecting to the phone I can also surf the net with it.
I have a few games that I play on it and I believe you can get software to make it act as a remote control.

Costs about the same as a TomTom Go, but does more.

lightning101

You can use the infrared as a TV/stereo/sky remote by downloading the codes from the net.

You can use it as a remote trigger for digital SLRs.

You can detonate bombs via wireless triggers.

It could stop a snipers bullet penetrating your heart, if you keep in in your left breast pocket.

SJ_Skyline

You can send/recieve data from a rock in Russia.

VinPetrol

pmsl lightening on floor in tears

ps where do i get these code things for the telly etc from ? could be funny round a mates house lol

VinPetrol

expensive post it note

OllyK

Or not - see mythbusters!

lightning101

The last one was a joke olly

Reality

So the only "cool" suggestion was made up

OllyK

Sorry, must have missed the "invisible" smillie!

You'd be surprised how many people think a cigarette case will stop a modern bullet

OllyK

Oh and you can put in a 1Gb memory card with a ripped DVD in mpg format or fill it with MP3 if you want as well.

GrahamG

Get one with built in wi-fi.. that kicks ****! surf the net anywhere..

OllyK

..you can get on to a public wi-fi node. Fine in the city, but don't expect to be browsing scoobynet when you're up Ben Nevis.

GrahamG

lol, yeah very true!

this will make you laugh... BK do wifi points... sit outside in your scoob, baseball cap on surfing scoobynet talking about chav's.....

A lot of hotels i went to last year have it.

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

All of the above plus I can even make phone calls with mine

OllyK

Yup - hotels are usually pretty good for wi-fi access. You just have to remember that the range while claimed to be upto 100m or more (depending on protocol) is often affected by other factors and so in reality you have to be quite close to the Access Point.

lightning101

They are crap for browsing **** and having a **** though. The screen is just too small, although the film cover on the screen is useful

Phil

Buy the software from www.scoobyworld.co.uk and you can even plug it into the engine management system

Monitor all the important stuff and even reset the ecu

Mine is also a phone

mart360

Play lots of free games

work on xcel & word doccys, host of other stuff too


watch films, with the right software, a standard movie will fit a 256mb card

Mart

Graz

Well I managed to send a picture from my phone on the top of Ben Nevis, therefore there was a GPRS data signal available, so if I had my PDA back then I could have browsed Scoobynet from the top of Ben Nevis (Albeit rather slowly)

OllyK

But not with wi-fi.

mart360

Ive sent emails from mid solent whilst trialing a mahoosive hovercraft!! using my Phone/pda

Mart

OllyK

But was it wi-fi, GPRS, IR, Bluetooth? I suspect GPRS as you can use that anywhere you have a mobile signal, wi-fi requires you to be within a few metres of an access point and these are generally hosted by a company and not just randomly dotted about the countryside.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

I have an XDA2i

I use it for SatNav (TomTom). With appropriate data it will advise you of speed camera locations.

Phone - handsfree via bluetooth

Browsing web - moderate SN on it

Pictures/vids - then ftp them to a website. Using this method I was able to report live from TOTB with both commentary results and pictures.

Blackberry client - get all my emails immediately + all my appointments etc.

MP3 player

MSN

Connect to a projector for slide show

VPN into work and remote control servers

WiFi, Bluetooth, GPRS, tri-band GSM

etc


Oh and games


We use them at work to send data to our couriers, for them to update that data with status updates and signature capture and also for them to send back realtime GPS location information.

Simon C

Cheers folks, you reminded me to look at my Sony PDA. The touch screen wasn't touch sensitive so forgot about it and the battery went flat. All cured, so won't have to by a new 1 for the sat nav next month

Its a oldie (TJ35)
but has built in mp3 player (waste of time I have an ipod)
have to buy a wi fi card for it if I want wireless (I don't)
Can be made into an ecu monitor
Can run sat nav.

Doesn't bother me, a business expense claim paid for it so effectivly was free

Hanslow

My missus has offered to get me a new one for my birthday (to replace my ipaq 3660 which has been boxed up since we moved house) but I can't see that I'd use it much. It's rare that I need Sat Nav, missus normally navigates (very well too ), and most places I go on my own I either prepare for or know where I'm going.

I'd be tempted to get one of the new fangled bluetooth OBD transmitters for real time ECU monitoring, but would I really use it much? I doubt it. The 3660 doesn't support bluetooth, so I'd either need to get a card for my current one, or a new PDA.

I dunno.....they seem nice, but expensive for what little use I'd probably get from it Maybe I should just fish out my old 3660 wherever it is

wez_sti

Have you just completed a 24 marathon!?!

repeat after me, i am not Jack Bauer, I am not Jack Bauer!!

Simon C

Cheers L101. Wonder if I can get my sony to trigger my DSLR

Simon C

But maybe we are wannabe's

Saying that I do have a programme that allows me to connect my chronograph for my air rifles to my pda and records the data as I shoot with no need to reset it each time

wez_sti

I'm a wannabe aswell! Jacks the man!

According to 24 it would be easier to start a thread about what PDA's CANT do!