PDA with barcode reader recommendations?

[Thomas Charron]

On Feb 4, 2008 11:17 AM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2008 9:54 AM, Peter Dobratz <peter at dobratz.us> wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a PDA with the following features?:
>   Symbol Technologies used to offer PalmOS-based handhelds with
> built-in barcode readers.  They've since been supllanted by MS Wince
> devices, so you can probably find used PalmOS devices cheap.  PalmOS
> communicates well with Linux.  I'm told PalmOS development on Linux is
> also well supported, and Palm emulators are available for Linux.

  The Symbol SPT1700/1800 line are the older PalmOS based devices.
They would certainly be in the price range (300-350$ IIRC), but
unfortunately would need to be found second hand or overstock.  They
also had several derivatives such as the SPT1740, which included
802.11b/g.

The new Windows based scanners are much higher in price ~1k$.

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-- Thomas