I'm looking to buy a PDA for the sole purpose of tuning my UTEC. I've seen the thread regarding the Dell X50 and the difficulties linking it up to the UTEC/Tuner. It made me wonder if anyone has had any problems with their handheld, or if they knew of one that works fairly well.

So can anyone suggest a good, fairly cheap PDA for tuning the UTEC? Is Palm OS or PocketPC OS better? I'm looking to spend about $150 to $200 tops. I was looking at the Dell X30 or the Tungsten E. Pros or cons? Any other suggestions?

Thanks for the help.

 

Good post. Was looking into getting one also instead of using a laptop.

 

Malibu Jack is the expert on these. I'd ask him.

 

Same here. Can't see dropping $600 minimum on a laptop just to have mobile tuning capability. And the DTEC stuff starts at a little over $200 plus the cost of the GBA.

I'll send MJ a PM. But hopefully he can reply in this thread also to help everyone else out. He's pretty good about that.

Thanks.

 

Honestly, any PDA capable of having a serial port (Compact flash card, or another way of getting a serial port) and running a terminal program can be used for tuning..

But one word of warning.. I had to write special software to be able to do anything really useful. Unless you have a full keyboard, your tuning will be very frustrating using a PDA without a keyboard...

I have a PDA with a built-in keyboard, and a terminal application.. But I ended up writing data logger software (Digital Dashboard) that worked as a logger and dashboard app.. I really only use it for logging, I rarely do any tuning with the PDA, but I can do it if I needed to.. I generally keep a dedicated laptop in my car at this point...

 

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Thanks guys. I was really looking at the PDA route to keep a more portable tuning piece. But I may just need to spend the extra hundred and get a laptop.

I always seem to overlook Ebay deals. I was thinking Fry's for a good laptop deal, but a used one will do the job for what I need.

Thanks again.

 

I have a compaq Laptop
that I have been using to tune for sale if your interested
I'm selling for USD 220