Fossil Abacus AU5006 Wrist PDA with Palm OS - Brown Croco

Features:

• Wristwatch PDA with built-in Palm OS technology; stylish brown crocodile leather strap
• Appointments, address storage, memos, and all the other features of the Palm OS
• 8 MB memory, enough for thousands of addresses, years of appointments, and much more
• Touchscreen input, with 160 x 160 pixel resolution, backlight, 16 shades of gray
• Motorola Dragonball Super VZ 66 MHz processor

Accessories:

Moleskine Small Ruled Notebook

Customer Reviews:

Not worth it. [Posted on 2006-02-02]
I purchased this item and for the first week to 10 days it operated just fine. Now 2 weeks later, it keeps resetting and/or just dumping the information. The battery life, which used to last all day, nows runs out by 5:00 pm.

I'm very disappointed. If it worked, it would be a great item.

Excellent when you can't carry a PDA with you [Posted on 2006-05-12]
The three reviewers below are either too narrow minded or just fools. The Wrist PDA is a NICE SUPPLEMENT to a real PDA. It is not meant to REPLACE a full PDA. How do you expect a device with a watch screen to give the same functionality as a full PDA? It's not possible given the laws of physics.

However, the wrist PDA is perfect add-on for those of us with a PalmOS PDA, to take our data with us even to places or situations where we CAN'T CARRY a PDA with us.

A reviewer below complains about the size and says "nothing says I'm the Biggest Dork better than carrying this watch". Well, I guess he feels like a dork already, or likes to look down on people. I remember when a CELL PHONE was a "dork" thing.

Just because supermodels don't wear a WristPDA on the front cover of fashion magazines does it means that a given watch is a "dork thing"? I DON'T THINK SO!.

In short: if you put it to charge every night, it performs flawlessly.

Beware, however, of applying too much pressure to the side buttons, you could damage them.

Excellent extension of your PDA [Posted on 2006-07-13]
This is a very cool gadget and working very nicely as an extension to your existing PDA. Even PDA is fairly small in size but it is still not very pratical to carry it with you all the time. This watch will make sure you don't miss a meeting and look up an address in an heart beat. If you are a PDA user, you should already get use to charge, hotsync regularly. So, battery life is not really a big concern. If you are very basic PDA (use only calendar & address)user, this watch can even repace your PDA. Only problem with the watch is its size. It's slightly bigger than the regular watch so you probably want to try it to see how it look on your arm befor you buy.

$80+ watch not even water resistant??? [Posted on 2006-12-12]
I liked this watch, until I got rained on and found out it is not even water resistant. If my son's $5 watch is water proof up to 30 meters, certainly Fossil could have made this watch water resistant for an additional $5. They argue that you should treat it like any other PDA - but it's a watch, too, and people don't usually take off their watches when it rains. Many people don't even take them off when they shower...

useful, but huge [Posted on 2006-12-15]
A palm on your hand? Yes.
A slim fashion complimenting watch? No.

This thing is huge and can be very useful if you don't like carrying the bulk of a palm and usually use it for calendar, contacts, and tasks. If that's your goal, but it.

If you're a palm power user, taking notes, using graffiti, or more interactive behaviors, then you have a trade-off either get the watch or accept the bulk of a more functional Zire or Tungsten.

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