
Ok, bought this device because it has a nice keyboard, I can take it with me and write stuff without killing trees. So far it's been great for this. Battery lasts most of the day and I can leave it in the charger at night. It's simple to use, touch screen works great. Just one thing. It won't communicate with my PC. It has no USB connection, the older connector it has doesn't work. Possibly because my Microsoft XP is too advanced for it, next thing I thought of was sharing a memory card. I got an adaptor and a Kingston memory card and hooked it up. It works great on PC, but NEC doesn't recognize. After doing some web surfing I get a flash card. NEC 790 has a type 2 CF or compact flash card outlet in front. But it does recognize a type 1 flashcard. Thank You God. I got a flashcard reader to transfer data to my PC, and here's where things get exciting.
My PC recognizes the pocket word format of the NEC 790 files, but the NEC 790 does not recognize Microsoft word format. After several hours of trying to convert Microsoft word to Pocket Word Document, I found a chat site that told me to convert them to text files then change the header from txt to .pwd. This worked. So after two days of frustration and over 100$ in additional hardware I can now move documents from my obsolete NEC 790 to my PC and back. I think this sort of hassle it uncalled for and I'm a bit pissed off. I'm not messing with the internet access or its other functions because I don't need them and I'm glad I don't need them.
The reason I'm giving this product 4 stars is I don't think it's the developers fault the Microsoft empire makes so much more money if I pay 2000$ for a modern handheld that can relate to the modern software they've seen fit to provide us. This device does what I want, and costs less then a modern equivalent. I'm happy with it but depending on what you want you might think twice before buying this thing.
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