Dell Axim's New Competition - The Gateway 100X

RommelS · #1 (**permalink**) 06-23-2003, 02:03 PM

Gateway's handheld ambitions had been rumored for a while, and now the secret is officially out: Following Dell's lead, the company will release a Pocket PC 2003 handheld called the 100X PDA in July. We got a look at an engineering sample of the upcoming device and have a few early impressions to impart.

Like the Dell Axim X5, the 100X is no lightweight, at 6.52 ounces and 5.11 by 3.07 by 0.71 inches. But the Gateway is arguably sleeker, with a silver finish and thumb grips at the bottom of the device (no, those aren't speakers). The 100X, like the Axim, also has dual Secure Digital and CompactFlash expansion slots.

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RommelS · #2 (**permalink**) 06-23-2003, 04:23 PM

Hmmm ...very tempting.

Axim X3i · #3 (**permalink**) 01-16-2004, 10:17 AM

I will never own one. It might look cool but I'm never going to own Gateway anything

straight_up · #4 (**permalink**) 01-16-2004, 11:16 AM

Maybe that's a bad photo, but it looks ugly! And huge!

bookie · #5 (**permalink**) 01-16-2004, 04:49 PM

At least it has the CF and SD card slots, someting Dell seems to be giving up.

EEE55 · #6 (**permalink**) 01-16-2004, 05:03 PM

I don't know if dell was giving up the cf slot as much as competing with the slimmer cf-less ipaqs.

RommelS · #7 (**permalink**) 01-16-2004, 05:24 PM

I can see why all of these vendors are moving away from CF because there are more and more SDIO peripherals coming out, and the new models (especially the iPaqs) are coming out with more RAM.

I do hope that someone offers a dual SD card slot. If that happens, then I can say that CF Card slot might be on its way out.