The Best Cheapest Phone that can carry manuals to be read (in place of a tap-top).

[Kyocop]

Hi!

The boss is about to ditch his old (non-Smart) cell phone and upgrade to a plan for personal and business use. He and his wife only need abou 450 minutes each month...but what he really wants is to be able to put the manuals on a phone big enough to read and so be ready on every service call.

What do you all use? Any Suggestions? What is a good little smart phone for a tec?

[rthonpm]

A phone with that large of a screen is going to be pretty big. Even something like a droid X is a little small for parts catalogues and such where there's a lot of detail. Tell him to bite the bullet and get a tablet...

[Hemlock]

Call me old, but the 10" screen on a tablet still seems a little too small. Get a laptop with a nice, big 17" viewing area.

[KenB]

I wonder if anybody has tried putting manuals on an iPad yet.

[RRodgers]

I wonder if anybody has tried putting manuals on an iPad yet.

I use my BlackBerry's address book to keep a list of parts that I use a lot.

[Gregg]

Take a look here. www.pogoplug.com
I use a personal storage cloud, work well with any connected device.

[jonezy999]

I tried loading manuals on my HTC but its just too bloody small and the pdf search leaves some to be desired. I carry a portable HDD loaded with manuals as well as my laptop. HDD is good when ya can get a spare pc rather than setting up a lap top just to look up an error code.

[mezerwi]

Ive been using HTC Desire to read service manuals.

[bdcrandall13]

We have a tech that uses a Samsung Tablet and are looking at Motorola Xoom's for everyone else. Saves a lot of time, is way easier to carry around than manulas or a laptop.

[Kyocop]

Thank you all for your suggestions.

[fixthecopier]

I just got a Motorola Bravo today. I plan to access the Konica Minolta site and use their manuals.

[CanonSco]

I know they have trialled tablets and larger smart phones at my work. They never got taken on for whatever reason, and we stuck with basic phones / laptop combo. I think they were correct.
Would be different for walking engineers though.

Also, an IPAD or APAD with 3G might be an interesting proposition for an all - in - one. I guess storage would be the limiting factor. As well as price.

[bdcrandall13]

We just got some of the Motorola Xoom tablets. They are great for keeping all manuals/bulletins/etc. They have 32 GB of space as well. Plenty for all the manuals. The screen is big enough that you can read everything as well.

[Simons]

You could try a PALM TX

it has an excellent PDF viewer. Big screen, I dont know if you will like the speed.


Amazon.com: Palm TX Handheld: Electronics

These are on ebay for around 100 bucks used and nice

[pepper38_cnd]

Re: The Best Cheapest Phone that can carry manuals to be read (in place of a tap-top

I have been using an iPad for about 6 months now and I love it! All manuals and car stock inventory is easily looked up. New files are easily transfered via wiFi using either FTP or web browser ( I prefer the FTP as the browser transfer is only single file at a time while FTP supports multiple transfers )