ViewSonic V35 Pocket PC

Pros: thin and light with easy navigation
Cons: none at the moment

I have had my PDA for about a week and can't find any flaws in the design or technology with the exc ...

Pros: Fast, bright screen, colorful graphics, crisp, loud sound through the included speaker, "smart battery."
Cons: Screen seems to scratch easily, limited expansion through the SD slot, less-than-solidly built docking connector.

I bought the V35 for my wife who, after watching "Sum of All Fears," a Bond movie, and "Bourne Identity," finally decided she wanted one for herself. I've owned and operated a Hewlett Packard Jornada 548 pocket pc for 4 years. We were perusing Fry's, ...

Pros: Best value for money PPC under $300
Cons: Limited accessories and battery life

The Viewsonic V35 has a bright screen, 2nd only to the latest PPCs offered by HP. On the default medium screen brightness, everything is already super clear indoors. Outdoors, you'll need to turn the screen brightness to its highest setting. It's...

Pros: very light, small size
Cons: 4-way d-pad, milky screen, crashes often

I was surfing on the internet when I stumbled on the viewsonic v35 pocket pc. I read the specs and ...

great pda the screen is the best one out there and even though the memory is low when you put in an SD card and paste shortcuts then even that is not a problem

I bought the V35 based mostly on it having the brightest display (among other nice features). I was concerned about the 64 meg of RAM providing only 36 megs useable. However, I figured that this problem would easily be overcome by the insertion of a 256 MB Secure Digital card. Here is the problem. Viewsonic took 5 MB of memory left over from ROM and provide this as a Flashdisk. The system sees this as "storagecard 1". Although the V35 manual indicates that you can have Apps save by default to your SD card, PocketWord, Notes, Inbox only allow you to default to storagecard 1! That means a whopping 5 Megs--not much. So I have a 256 MB card which I have to manually drag everything to when I want to save out--very poor!

Pros: Small size, light weight, bright screen - excellent form factors mostly copied from Compaq
Cons: Cannot install upgrades. Drivers are buggy. No customer support. No fixes available.

After 7 months of uninterrupted difficulties and deteriorating performance, I can no longer recommend the ViewSonic v35 to anyone. ViewSonic refuses to offer any fixes and their customer support is more aggravating than helpful.

Do not buy this unit!

Pros: Light weight, small dimensions, excellent operating system, works well with my PC and ActiveSync.
Cons: None so far. BAD SUPPORT AFTER THE SALE

This is my first PDA. I bought it for use as a Directory,a Scheduler and for a bit of occasional Note-taking. I bought it because of the operating system (Microsoft Mobile)thinking that it would effectively interface with my P.C.. After the past month, I have to say that as a new user it fulfills all my requirements completely. ViewSonic is not highly advertised but enjoys a good reputation with me because of their monitors' performance. There may be some disappointment with the product from some individuals because of their expectations, but so-called power users should look at the top of the line from other manufacturers. I'm happy with my V35.
UPDATE 4/11/06
Two months ago the PDA screen developed a black line through the display about two-thirds down. I contacted the customer service asking their input. They provided NONE other than get rid of the machine and get a new one. Very disappointed as to the lack of communication. I would be afraid to buy anything from Viewsonic that would require service after the sale.
Reading over the initial review, I'm sorry that I gave such a strong "buy" recommendation.