So, a couple days ago my beloved PDA finally went into its death throws. It did so at around 2am by constantly rebooting and making that annoying startup sound… Of course, nothing I did could stop the fucker from sounding off. So I woke up, took it to the office and baby sat it while I tried to figure out a way to put it out of my misery. No removeable battery, non-responsive to reset and other button presses… During the process of trying to figure this out, it finally just quit.

Now, I know what is actually happening here. The batts were near death and a recharge would fix her right up, right? Well… Yeah. For the most part charging it back up did the trick… But, really it’s a lot like hooking up a corpse to a car battery just to get a bit of animation out of it. It might look alive, but it ain’t pretty. I decided to finally put the poor thing out to pasture with the other retired PDAs I’ve owned… I should have started a PDA Graveyard… damn.

So, old and busted: Zire 72. New hotness: Dell Axim x51v. My Zire was a good PDA. You’ll notice in the pic there’s a shot of the “Original Blue” version. That’s mine. Funny enough, by the end of its lifecycle it had turned into the new silver model. ;) hehehe Goodbye old friend. I’ll miss everything about you, except that GOD DAMN PIECE OF SHIT CAMERA!!!!