August 2003 Rhino Skin Contest

[Computer Ninja]

This month, Axim Users Dot Com is giving away a Rhino Skin Case (leather or aluminum) for the person with the best story on how they convinced someone to buy a Dell Axim!

Again, administrators and moderators are not allowed to win, but they are allowed to participate. Again, there are many of the moderators I know that either bought one on their own or conviced others to buy one. Moderators are exempt from this contest!

[Bofug]

Well, this is the story of how I convinced my parents to buy one for me - hey, I'm still young! It's not very rivetting or exciting in the least, but it's a story...

When I first saw the Axim on the Dell site, I was pretty impressed. Naturally, I started asking for an early Christmas present right away. At first, they didn't see the point so I had to result to more drastic measures. At random points in dinner conversations I would interject, "So the Axim X5 has dual memory slots you know" or "how 'bout that 400MHz processor?". They had nothing to do with the conversations, but my parents understood :P. When that wasn't working, I started leaving little printouts of the Axim in their briefcases, pockets, on their pillows, etc. Ya, it's kinda sad, I think Dell put a spell on me. Then their Christmas card from me was a collage of Axim pictures which definately gave them the hint. Next thing you know, here I am!

I think I took pictures of this stuff on the digital camera, I'll look......

[zeke]

So her's the deal. My loving wife buys me an Axim with all the goodies, gps included. Last weekend I decided to take the boss hunting with me and the boy. After three and 1/2 hours of stomping through the hardwoods the boss asked "How the heck can you tell where you're at?" "Becides having a great sense of dead reckoning" I said, " I always have gps to fall back on". He asked what that was and BINGO! it occured to me that if I could get hime to stop for lunch I could accomplish something that I had been trying to do for months.
Over warm baloney sandwiches and juice boxes I demonstarted in detail how my gps worked. I then showed him all the other features the Axim had and how they could benefit our sales department's productivity and our servide tech's effectiveness.
I like to think it was the intoxicating aroma of mustard laden pork bi-products, cheetos, and grape juice that convinced him, but most likely it was the potential for a return on investment and a more efficient workforce that convinced him, once and for all, that we as a company needed these Axims. We have since ordered an initial rollout of 10 units for our sales staff.
So remember if the next time you ask your boss to make a sizable investment in technology and he tells you to get lost, try it, it worked for me.

[fluffydingo]

Okay, here's mine. If you're a young'un, don't read it. Anyway, I bought mine from a friend who had received it as a gift. She needed money so that she could pay the pawn shop and not lose the title to her car. Tell me that's not sad. Anyway, she was short $200, so I bought it. I have never had a PDA, so I didn't know IF I would even have a use for it. Anyway, I got it and started playing with it. I learned that it was fun. So I bought a wireless networking card for it. I wanted more. I bought a bluetooth card. That did it for me. So I have this bluetooth cell phone, and I kinda like being able to be online while driving down the road. My friend, Tim, was riding along with me, after a night of being shot down in bars. He kept babbling in his drunken stupor, so I handed my Axim to him, much in the way a mother hands her keys to a toddler. He was drooling about that much. He clicked on the little blue E. It shut him up. He didn't know how he was online, but I kept hearing him giggling. I had no idea what he was doing, so I asked. He held it in front of me, and I saw that he was streaming porn (at a frighteningly low speed) onto my PDA. I laughed and called him a freak. He continued watching porn all the way back to his house (I was the DD). So the next day, around 3 p.m., he calls me, still kinda tipsy, and asks how much I paid. I told him it was none of his business. He asked where I got it. I told him he could get it at Dell's website. He said "I need one of those." So I told him to buy one. He did. He now calls me and bugs the hell out of me almost weekly, asking stuff like if I know how to save "movies" to memory... He's since bought a new case, a cradle for work, too, and 6, yes 6, 512M SD cards. I'm kinda scared to see what's on them. Anyway, that's my story. Isn't it funny how people's perverse and bizarre obsessions can influence impulse buying?

[TallCreepyFreak]

IT WAS 1991, a cold, hard, grey day. The only kind in my part of town; even the weather is tough. I was sitting in my PI office, waiting for some briliant idea to ZAP into my brain be cause i was stuck on the current case, when suddenly, BAM BANG BAM, theres a soft but seductive knock on the glass window you can't see through on my door. "Come in," I slur, expecting to see another little Timmy slink in, hoping I can find his lost puppy. But Lady Luck must have been on my side that day, because Beauty herself walked in. I say walked, but she more so flew. she was an angel. that red dress was almost too much, I was about to drool and go ga-ga when my senses kicked in and asked her to take a seat. she did, and the she looked up from her hat, jeepers creepers whered u get those peepers!?! her long blonde hair flowed down, and I began with small talk, not even knowing what I was saying because I was so mezmorized. she asked if i could find her husband... silence, i asked where she had seen him last, "on our boat...before I shot him and pushed him overboard to swim with the fishes." i didnt want him, she clammered. she said she came here to cover her tracks on papaer, but I could tell, she'd came to get much more. she got up, came behind my desk, got closer and closer, i could hear my heart like a train with ur foot stuck in the tracks, she put her hands in my jacket, holding me tightly, and said "i'll give you anything you want...just name it." so, obviously, the first thing that came to my mind was what was in my pants, or atleast what I wanted in there, and that of course, was an axim, to put in my pocket. so i asked her to get on dell.com, and order me one. and that she did...the end.

[patwoods]

How's about how I got convinced to buy the Axim (the other way around)?

I bought my very first PPC with some Amazon gift certificates from Christmas last year after debating for weeks over which PocketPC to buy. I had only owned Palms from the IIxe through the latest Samsung smartphones and several models in between. But I finally gave into the 'Dark Side' and decided to make the change.

All the talk about the Axim being a 'brick' turned me off, even though I always like to see things in person before making decisions based on flack I hear on the web. But I knew NOBODY with a Dell, so I was stuck looking around the local electronics stores. By that point I realized the best of what I was looking for (size, speed) was the Viewsonic v35. So I broke down and bought the v35.

Three months later, I was on business at a sister company of ours, and meeting with some of the IT dudes. Lo and behold, one of the guys I met actually HAD the Axim. I must say it was larger than my v35, but SO much cooler. And, he had a WiFi card and was showing it off. When I got back to my office, I immediately boxed up all my Viewsonic stuff, threw an ad on eBay, and sold it.

Bought the Axim the very next day after the Viewsonic sold. I also broke down and bought a wireless card and router to replace my wired router, and have been extremely happy ever since. Now I walk around doing yard work streaming internet radio to my Axim wirelessly!

I do like the Porn story though

[Zyver]

How I convinced my partner to buy an Axim with just two words.
My partner called me at 8:00 on Saturday morning saying there was no power at the office, we would have to meet the deadline working somewhere else. We decided, at my urging, to meet at Coffee Biz. I arrived first and ordered two lattés and scones. She arrived within minutes, carrying her purse, laptop and an overstuffed briefcase. We had to get a bigger table.
As she was setting up she asked, “Where is all your stuff?” I pulled out my Axim and put it on the table. “No way”, was her reaction. “Yes way” I said. I downloaded all the changes to the proposal before I left home, so I was current, she only had an old copy on her laptop. After awhile we got everything updated and the only task left was editing the time schedule. As she pulled out her hard cover Time Tracker I punched mine up on my Axim. As I neatly inserted the new info she erased, scratched out and wrote in the margins. She didn’t have a calculator and tried to use the one on her cell phone, the Axim came to the rescue. As we continued we realized we needed to consult a new contact who’s number she left at the office… thanks to active sync, I had it on my Axim. We were almost done but needed to research a couple of web sites before we wrote the summery. “Guess we’ll have to finish this tomorrow” she said. I popped in my WiFi card and accessed the sites. She was blown away. Although a little bigger screen would be nice, it delivered the info.
But this is what cinched the deal. She asked me if I had directions to the luncheon Monday afternoon. While she went for refills I warmed up my GPS, punched in the address and gave her door-to-door directions when she returned. “Oh my god, I’ve been living in the dark ages. How soon can I get one? Is it hard to keep updated? Will it work in the car?” As she packed up her laptop and was stuffing everything into her briefcase, I sipped my latté and tucked my Axim into a small fanny pack. With a big smile on my face I said to myself, “Yes way”.

[darkchild]

I was in a wedding with my friend and he had a Palm Tungsten C in his pocket which I had wanted one for so long!. We were both the best man for our friend who is getting married in about 1 hour or so... But being a fan of a Palm sure makes me forget what I was there for. My friend was showing of his Tungsten C with its WiFi and I was showing of my Axim with its larger screen (beat that!). With about 15minutes before the wedding and we still are playing with it. My brother call me as loud as he can because I'm up next but my friend and I still weren't dress. We had to quickly dress our self and just to make it all worst, my friend have forgotten to zip his fly in favor of putting his Tungsten C on his pocket first. I didn't know at that time ....but I quickly took my Axim and put it in my pocket, grab my friend and quickly rush to the ceremony. We were both lucky that the ceremony still hasn't started yet. After a few minutes, the ceremony started and just so happened when the bride is going to say ''I do'', my Axim started playing it's Alarm! What the hell just happened!!. Everything in the world was frozen for a couple of minutes and then suddenly out of the blue, my friends Tungsten C started playing music notifying that the Wifi connection is established. Huh!?. There is Wifi in the church!? Hahaha!...what kind of church is this?. But the best part is that when my friend is about to shut off the Tungsten C, well....he got the whole world the chance to see his penis!. (Opss!) I was so shocked thinking ''what the hell do he think his doing?''. Everybody started giggling and so is the bride and the groom. My friend who has normally shown his penis aseptically in games such as 'Truth or Dare' really don't care. When it's all over , I ask him , ''Why the hell didn't you were boxers? He answered me that he had no time to were boxer at that time and he also explain that he had forgot to shut his Tungsten C's WiFi. After weeks of explaining what just happened to all the guest in favor of protecting my friend( because some of them says his a Porn star!), he call me up and ask how much is the Axim?. In a couple of weeks he received the Axim Advance which by now he is teasing and getting me wanting to punch his face because he said my Axim Basic is week! With its puny 32mb and 300Mhz compare to his 64mb and 400Mhz. I ask why he bought the Axim?. He just say that when I show him my Axim larger screen, he just got to get one!.Idiot!

(sorry George, that's for getting the WM2003 upgrade before I did! , hehehe)

Hay just for you:
George, you're my friend, my bud, my enemy, my stupid bestfriend, and my hero, just like my Axim,

I don't know why I'm stuck with you but you are truly a friend just like my Axim,

It has been 5 years being friends with you and hope my 5 month year old Axim can last as long,

You're are bright as a horse(hahaha) and hope my Axim can be save when it is in you're hand ( if not, you are so dead!).

Being you're pal has truly been a wonderful experience, you sing like a dog unlike my Axim that can sing a Whitney Houston song! hahaha

Be good,
Be wise,
Be whatever you wanted to be,
Be here at Aximusers.com and sign up as a member!!!.



P/S :AND give me THAT WM2003 upgrade you have!!
I WANT IT!!. :P

[Tarzanalog]

Here's three... pick one:

1) I met this morning with the new Service Learning coordinator for a local school district. She is new to the job (a newly created position) and new to the area. Lots of students from her school district already volunteer with my non-profit organization and I thought it would be good for us to have a chat. With the help of my Axim (and a 15 min. explanation of all the cool stuff it can do - her request, though I am always keen to show off) she left the meeting after an hour with 13 legal pad pages of contact info., 6 months worth of community activities and events needing volunteers in her paper planner >_< , and tomorrow's weather forecast! (Oh yeah and the Dell Axim URL. She might as well get WM2003, right?)

2) Last month my boss and I were halfway back (3hr.) from a conference in K.C. when she realized she had put her Franklin planner on the roof before getting into the vehicle and it was probably blowing around somewhere in rural NW Missouri at that very moment. She was frantic the rest of the way back. (I made her let me drive.) Needless to say, it was a pretty easy sell the day after for her to go paperless and get an Axim. She got the 300mhz version... baby steps, I'll get her there.

3) Last week a buddy and I finally found the time to hit the links before the end of the summer. It was the first opportunity I had to see how my Axim worked in "play" mode using GolfPS and my Transplant GPS unit. I had mapped my local course previously (over three seperate mornings playing hookie from work) but had never played it using the software to help with shot and club selection. I kept the Axim in my golf bag and my buddy totally unaware save for the occasional "charity" distance information. Having been deadlocked with him for several years with similar scores (in the low 90s, nothing impressive) I was anxious to see what impact, if any, the Axim would have on my play. Wow. I must be terrible at eyeballing distance because with that taken out of the equation... I'm, dare I say... a GOOD golfer?!? I beat my buddy by 15 strokes with a personal best 6-over-par 78! The aftermath is predictable: He accused me of taking lessons behind his back or at least actually practicing the Golf Digest lessons. I showed him the Axim w/ GolfPS. He drooled. He bought one off Ebay last weekend. I have to tell ya' that if he'd beaten me despite my technological advantage I was prepared to use the Axim to show him that I'd copied, in glorious color, that topless picture of his wife from their Bahamas trip last year that they had displayed in their living room and forgot to put away while their housesitter (me) was feeding their cat last month during their trip to Chicago to visit family. So for right now, that's still my little secret... and yours I guess. :innocent:

[Computer Ninja]

As funny as DarkChild's entry was, I have to give the winning entry to Zyver. His story is the reason I have this site! It's the reason we, as Axim Users, continue our daily lives, preaching the beauty, versatility, and expandability of the Dell Axim! Zyver, your story was wonderful, inspiring, and thought-provoking. Everything in your entry was why I have an Axim, and HOW I strive to use my Axim on a day to day basis!

Congratulations go out to Zyver, who'll be receiving a choice of an aluminum or leather Rhino Skin Axim Case!