Franklin RF-8110 192K Palm Style Touch Screen PDA

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $7.98

Features:

• 192 KB memory storage
• 2-line, adjustable contrast display
• Ergonomic design, fits easily in palm
• Scheduler with alarms
• 1 personal and 2 business directories

Customer Reviews:

Okay for [the money] [Posted on 2001-12-30]
Christmas gift. At first I was thrilled. I'd wanted the functionality of a digital organizer, but balked at the $$$ of Visors and Palm Pilots. The touchscreen on the Franklin RF-8110 is hard to read in different types of lighting, and it's not very sensitive to the stylus. The words under the icons are blurry. There are 3 address books you can use, but you can't see all the fields of an entry at the same time; you have to touch the down arrow to see the next field. It has a calculator and world time, and even a Euro converter, but it does not convert Euro<->USD. Optional password is nice. One-touch memory check, change to daylight savings, switch between 12-hour and 24-hour time displays and language changer are all nice---as is the slim, lightweight design. However, the instruction booklet is poorly written and fails to give clues about what the different icons at the top represent. There's no picture of the screen showing all the menu items, etc.

I can obtain a "free" PC link kit to use with MS Outlook, butI haven't gotten it because I'm thinking of returning the organizer. For [the money] it's not a bad deal, but if you think, as I did, that this would be a nice, cheap substitute for a Palm, think again. Unlike the Palm, of course, you can't program it or send email, but I didn't want those features either. All I wanted was a nice, inexpensive digital organizer with which I could store names/numbers/addresses, get reminded of scheduled appts, and enter simple todo lists. Spend the extra money on what you want.

BTW, the detail on the larger picture is not exactly correct. For example, there are no numbers above the characters when you are entering a message. You have to touch the "ABC/123" icon to get numbers, once you go there, then you touch a "SYML" icon to get symbols...just a few, and it's hard to tell what they are sometimes.

Junk [Posted on 2003-06-27]
Problem one: I spent money to by the synch for Outlook, but the function doesn't work. Either I get a communication error on the Rolodex, or the I am told to press an "RX" button on the organizer, a button which doesn't exist as far as I am concerned. THe Instruction Manual gives no information about how to synch and the software that comes with the cable to allow sychronization has no help option.

Worthless

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