Dell Axim X50v Windows Mobile for Pocket PC 2003 416 MHz 3.5" LCD Screen
The v represents its VGA screen. The X50v remains one of the few devices to utilize the Intel 2700G 3D accelerator & video decoder with 16 MB video RAM. It allowed the device to render the 3D games included by Dell as well as others available retail. The device's memory has a built-in 128MB Intel StrataFlash ROM with 64MB RAM. The X50v shipped with Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. An upgrade was offered by Dell the next year to Windows Mobile 5, however it was later withdrawn because users complained about slow performance. The reason for the slowdown was that Windows Mobile 2003 stores modified files in RAM and only writes to the flash chip when users copy files to the internal storage partition. Windows Mobile 5 changes this, it does not store files in RAM and writes everything permanently to flash memory. Because of this data is not lost when the battery is empty for a long time and the RAM contents are cleared. The storage chip in the Dell Axim X50 family however is not suitable for constant writes since it is slow NOR flash, which is why Windows Mobile 5 runs slow on these devices. The X51 family in comparison has a faster flash chip and is suited to run Windows Mobile 5.
While the X50 family has reached EOL, in mid-2007, an unofficial Windows Mobile 6 ROM for the X50v appeared.[3] This update requires the PDA to be upgraded to WM5 and then uses the bootloader to flash a WM6 ROM image from an SD card. The update works successfully and adds new features to the X50v.
Features include: