Something like an OmniBook 300, but smaller?

[Dave Britten]

(12-07-2016 09:19 PM)Bill (Smithville NJ) Wrote:  Getting any older device is always questionable on whether the old battery packs will hold a charge.

I'm not sure what applications you need to run. You mentioned Microsoft Access. You might want to look into the NEC Mobilepro series of Windows CE machines. They have a very nice keyboard and screen. Will run pocket versions of Axcess, Excel, Word, etc. And they made an AA battery holder for some of them. I've had a couple of them and they are very nice machines.


Bill
Smithville, NJ

I've actually got a MobilePro 900, upgraded to the "Handheld PC 2000" OS. It's a pretty nice machine, and the battery pack uses standard 18650 cells (I think that's the part number), so it was really easy to do a rebuild. Unfortunately, Pocket Access is very limited compared to the desktop version; I think they intended it more as just a database layer, with any real front-end development happening with Embedded VB (which I don't think you can do on-device).