Toshiba e335 Pocket PC

Display
The e335 features high resolution on its 240 x 320 pixel backlit color display, which can display over 65,000 colors.

Expansion
With the Toshiba e335 Secure Digital expansion slot, you can get virtually unlimited data storage with Secure Digital removable media. You can transfer digital content between your Toshiba handheld and other Secure Digital card-compatible products, including digital cameras, digital camcorders, and PCs.

Operating System
The Toshiba e335 is powered by Microsoft's Pocket PC 2002 operating system, which offers many enhancements over earlier operating systems. You'll get improved handwriting recognition, more reliable synchronization, increased security, and the ability to chat using MSN Messenger.

Extra Software
In addition to the built-in applications that come with Pocket PC 2002, the Toshiba e335 comes with Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Pocket Outlook, Pocket Internet Explorer, Microsoft Reader, Microsoft Windows Media Player 8 for Pocket PC, File Explorer, MSN Messenger, Microsoft Transcriber, Microsoft ActiveSync 3.5, Microsoft Outlook 2000, Adobe Acrobat Reader for Pocket PC, and ArcSoft PhotoBase.

In the Box
The Toshiba e335 comes with a USB cradle, AC adapter, stylus, soft slip case, quick-start card, and warranty card. It's backed by a one-year limited warranty.

Product Description
Value-priced, the Toshiba Pocket PC e330 Series is ready to use right out of the box! Powered by the Intel PXA250 processor with Intel XScale technology at 300MHz and up to 64MB of RAM, the pocket PC e330 Series delivers a powerful feature-set to keep you productive at all times. The Pocket PC e330 Series features a familiar user interface and tools from Microsoft such as Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Pocket Outlook and Microsoft Windows Media Player for Pocket PC 2002 Packaged in an attractive, sleek design, the Pocket PC e330 Series delivers brilliant images through its 3.5" TFT display offering 64K colors and an 240 x 320 resolution Play audio and video files, organize and view your favorite pictures, all with the Toshiba Pocket PC e330 Series' incredible expansion capabilities

Good screen, good features, VERY thin and light, and better input methods and syncing than any Palm. Having the choice of transcriber, block input (i.e., Graffiti), character recognition, and keyboard for different situations is great.

Pocket Word and Excel are included, as is Reader (load in a few books - it's great for boring staff meetings or waiting in line at the store). Programs like Notes, Tasks, and Calendar all have better functionality than their Palm counterparts.

And these days, you just can't beat the price. Well, that's not true. Yes you can, with Dell's new PDAs. But those things look like bricks, compared to the Toshiba. For me, Toshiba's slim design was very important.

Issues include a low expandability (only 1 SD slot) and a relatively slow 300 MHz proc - slow as in it's not 400 Mhz, mind you; it's still plenty fast for everyday use. Plus, it's less stable than the Palm OS. As a comparison, I had to restart my old Palm maybe once or twice in the year that I used it. This Pocket PC, I have to restart about once a week. It's somewhat annoying, but I find it an acceptable trade-off for the better features.


do NOT buy if you travel -- major conceptual problem here   February 25, 2003
41 out of 60 found this review helpful

A wonderful little machine if you want to be a slave to always finding a power outlet within 24 hours -- or lose all data!!

Imagine a PC which loses ALL data when unplugged. That's what the Toshiba 330 & 335 are. Since all data is stored in RAM, when the battery runs out, all data is lost.

The problem is that the battery runs out in 24-30 hours even when TURNED OFF!

This is a scenario I don't ever want to experience: arrive in London for the big meeting. Been in airports for 12 hours, tired. Head to hotel. Don't have English adapter plug, so don't plug in. Fall asleep. Wake up 8 hours later. Poof! Your meeting address, notes and contacts are gone.

Yeah! What a concept. Perhaps I'm missing something here, but this is one of the worst user-experience flaws I've seen in a long time.

Buy an old Palm. You might not have all the widgets, but at least you'll know where you're supposed to be.


Better than any PDA   October 31, 2002
Roster Brown (NY, USA)
36 out of 50 found this review helpful

This is revolution. I bought Toshiba Pocket PC e335. I never thought that it'll be boon for me. you can use this pocket PC as good as as PC. you can chat on MSN, check your emails and MS Word is here so you can draft things. you can see video and you can download songs too. 64 MB RAM is more than your needs. i give 5star, becoz this is really good. looks and size r very sleek. before buying this i was a fan of sony pda....but now bye bye sony. this product is my best buy.


Very pleased with my Toshiba!   December 21, 2002
32 out of 36 found this review helpful

This is my 3rd PDA in one week, and I'm very happy with my decision to return my 2 previous purchases, both Palm's. I started with the Palm M500 thinking since this is my first PDA and I'm not a real "technoid", it should suffice. Wrong! I wasn't happy with the monochrome and I figured for a little more money I could double my memory and get color so I returned it for the 515m. While I was very happy with that product and had easily mastered the graffiti and the "user friendly" applications, I was not totally satisfied until I checked out the Pocket PC's. After much research and looking around, I chose the Toshiba e335, and I'm very satisfied with my purchase. It has the ability to play mp3's which the palms did not and the color screen is much easier to read than the palm m515. I also prefer the Microsoft format and the ability to chose which writing style I prefer; block recognition, transcriber, letter recognizer or keyboard. It also has a voice recorder which I haven't used yet. All in all this is a great unit and the more I play around with it the more I like it. I haven't had any difficulty synchonizing it and I have activated the Avantgo feature and update daily the channels I have selected to view. With this device and the os, I will not feel the desire, nor the need, to upgrade in the near future. This should satisfy for a very long time.


Satan enters the handheld market!!   April 14, 2003
M Carey (East Coast)
31 out of 140 found this review helpful

Stay away from this product, It's EVIL!!!!!

This unit is completely useless. It crashes even with full power while doing a simple Note or Word document. Pictures jpg, gif, or any other format, (Even with installing the companion software for it), look atrocious. It has to be re-synced and given a new name on your computer after each restart with the battery switch. This cannot be relied on in any way shape, or form.

The only good reviews written on it are:
1) Paid for by Toshiba.

2) Written by someone who thinks they know what you did wrong, (It is not you).
3) By someone who wants you to suffer as they have.

Along the lines of always trying to stay positive here are some good things about it:
1) The unit has no issues when powered off.
2) It makes an attractive paperweight.
3) Can be used to pound thumbtacks into the wall.
4) It can be used as a fly swatter.
5) Makes a great Rug-Hockey puck.
6) It's handy dandy as a Windshield Ice Scrapper.