Customer Reviews
Toshiba SUCKS! Buy better! 
2006-03-26
Toshiba doesn't offer any support for products after a newer model is lanched. While everyone else can evolve with technology, you will have to keep buying new units from Toshiba to keep up. No Thanks.
Absolute Bottom Line 2006-02-16
I bought this PPC brand new, when it first came out at $350 or thereabouts. It wasn't the cheapest one out there, but I was in a hurry and had liked Toshiba's laptops so I figured- what the heck? I mean, how hard IS it to make a PPC when you've been making laptops for so long. Well- I found out. Toshiba needs to get out of this end of the market (actually, I believe they already have) because this is the absolute worst PPC on the market. The processor is indeed slow and buggy; it required "soft" reset several times a day. I use all types of PPC's in my daily work, so I am not unfamiliar with their usage. I currently own 2-Dells, 3-HP's and 2-Palms. I consider myself expert in their usage.
The battery life is ridiculous. I was lucky to get 3 hours out of it. Upon recharge, the message "to prevent data loss, recharge or replace your back up battery" was a constant. There is no replaceable or back up battery on this thing, thus making the error message ridiculous as well. If you are considering buying one of these used or in any for second hand (the ever popular "New in box! Never been used" auction pitch) rethink immediately. The shelf life of their internal battery is about 6 months. A call to the warranty center for a replacement got me nothing but a headache. The "service" rep told me that "Someone should have told you there was no way to replace the internal battery when you bought it." Now, there's a confidence-inspiring employee. It got worse from there. Toshiba's final offer to me was to replace the battery for-ready?- $225.00. Yup. 6 month old device, dead battery and that was their remedy. Not only will I never buy a Toshiba PPC again, I will never buy a Toshiba ANYthing ever again.
Thinking of buying a used one? Look again 
2005-04-11
Toshiba is known for their excellent notebook/laptop, but not for their PDA. My first PDA was the Apple Newton and Toshiba e335 is my current and last one (currently looking at the IPAQ 6315/6365).
My overall experience with the e335 is not too good. Hardware quality is very poor (cracked adaptor socket, creaking case). I am not at all a "heavy" user, but I still find this e335 to be inadequate and below average in everything. Battery life is average; plus it cannot be replaced when the battery is at the end of its lifetime. The processor is so slow and buggy, it requires "soft" reset several times a day.
The worst of all is the poor support from Toshiba itself as the maker of this PDA. The last rumor I heard was, Toshiba stops making and selling PDA (its a reality by now in 2005). So my suggestion is: don't even consider buying a used one or new ones advertised as clearance model, because you'll be stuck with less than average PDA that you can only use as a shiny toy to impress a 4 year old....
poor choice, don't buy 2004-11-20
Expensive toy but not useful at all.
If you don't recharge it, you lose your memory??? What kind of a deal is that for $400, as I paid? Do yourself a favor and buy something better.
Good PDA 
2004-04-21
Got it around my birthday Sept of 2003, Great buy, 2 problems shipping took almost 2 weeks instead of 2 days from NJ to MA, 2nd Battery problems almost 2 months later Toshiba was able to replace but battery problem continued so I gave up. All in all 8 months later and other than battery still loving it. Would buy from seller again. Still the shipping was a bit delayed but it was still a reliable PDA
Great PC, Don't buy from Amazon 2003-12-14
Value-priced, the Toshiba Pocket PC e330 Series is ready to use right out of the box! Powered by the Intel PXA250 processor with Intel XScale technology at 300MHz and up to 64MB of RAM, the pocket PC e330 Series delivers a powerful feature-set to keep you productive at all times. The Pocket PC e330 Series features a familiar user interface and tools from Microsoft such as Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Pocket Outlook and Microsoft Windows Media Player for Pocket PC 2002 Packaged in an attractive, sleek design, the Pocket PC e330 Series delivers brilliant images through its 3.5" TFT display offering 64K colors and an 240 x 320 resolution Play audio and video files, organize and view your favorite pictures, all with the Toshiba Pocket PC e330 Series' incredible expansion capabilities
Great As A First PDA 
2003-11-09
If you're shopping around for your first PDA, the Toshiba E-335 Pocket PC should satisfy. It comes with 64MB of memory with an SD slot for additional storage. The interface is easy to read and understand and bright (but this comes at a cost at draining your battery power). Its very thin and light. Synchronizing with Microsoft Outlook 2000 or XP to a laptop or desktop PC with the USB is painless and fast. You can even browse the Web with the included Internet Explorer, view PDFs with the included Acrobat Reader, and play MP3s with the included Windows Media Player. My only quibble is that a slight push of the buttons can turn it on without you knowing while its in your pocket, draining the battery, but configuring the power setting to shut off after a minute of idle time should counter this.
Don't buy it if you use Windows NT 2003-11-07
I loved my Toshiba E335. No real problem with battery life and other usual complaints. My only issue is that now I use a NT machine and Toshiba, believe it or not, does not have a serial craddle or any other solution to make it work. So as I can't synch anymore I have to sell this PDA and buy one from Compaq, Sony or Palm...
Nonononono! 2003-10-20
Stay away. The thing has some sort of memory leak in the software. Expect to reset the unit every 5 hours or so or else it slows to a crawl. It doesnt crash, just slows down.
I found out Toshiba lied with their specs of this unit. It will not support any SDIO card other than toshiba's bluetooth card. So you cant do any sort of Wifi with this unit. There are so few accessories that you must accept the unit as is.
My solution was simple: Return it and get an Ipaq h2215. It lacks the 1 touch recording feature, but it's smaller than my wallet and feels much more sturdy than the 355. It also has the full version of Windows Mobile, rather than the scaled back one in the Toshiba.
Toshiba support was awful: They couldnt tell me if the Host adapter cable worked with anything other than a keyboard: And that ended up being true. They tout the USB Host cable as being able to let you connect to printers, etc. All it talks to are mice and keybards. Sick!
The Photo software that this 355 comes with is useless. Dont pay more for it.
The Ipaq 2215 is about 2 steps up from this unit in price, but there is an equivilant Ipaq, not sure of the model #. MY advice: Get something with "SDIO Now!" drivers that allow you to talk to most SDIO expansion cards out there.
Stay away from the low end toshibas. I love the 755 though, that's a real killer machine.
Constantly Locks up 2003-10-13
I bought this model (...), and I had to return it because it kept locking up, glitching, or malfuncioning in one way or another (sometimes the transcriber wouldn't work, sometimes applications wouldn't work, sometimes the scheduler light didn't turn off, sometimes the unit itself wouldn't turn off, etc.) I wound up returning it as defective, and then I bought the exact same model (...). I had the same problems. It wasn't defective, it's just a poor-quality device. Now, after 1 year, It won't even turn on, and I can't get it fixed because the repairs would cost more than the unit. I'm now out $269.00.
I miss my pocket pc because I used it all the time. I feel lost without it, but yet, it'll be a long time before I buy another one. I think the technology isn't very advanced yet.
