On 09/27/04 20:43 ET, msthilaire said...
My wife has an X3 that she barely uses, and I
have an X5 that is gathering dust. I'd love to
be able to use it as a universal remote for the
new media room in my new house.
Does the X5 have a good range with the IRDA port?
The X5 was the first real "disaster" we even encountered during the development of Total Remote. The audio hardware cannot support our transmitter module, and the IrDA range is pathetic (maybe 5-10 feet, with the wind at your back, on a good day, if you wipe the IR window of your TV first, and only if you believe in god). We had to completely write off the X5; to be absolutely specific we do not support PPCs that do not work well for Total Remote, so we do not support the use of an Axim X5 for Total Remote.
Get a later-model Dell. Ever since the X5 they have worked VERY closely with us to insure that Total Remote would work well, and they clearly understood that it would require them to take a different hardware approach. Total Remote is included on the companion CD included with every Axim forward of the X5, which means the X3, X30 and quite possibly any unreleased PPC they may be working on that I cannot discuss. ;)
--Don
