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HP iPAQ 1935 Pocket PC

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good but could have been better...
Review: I bought the HP Ipaq 1935 about 3 weeks ago. Here are some pros and cons to sum up:

PROS:
1) Very very light
2) Very slim
3) Great screen, great resolution
4) East to set up
5) Good included apps (word, email)

CONS:
1) I always have to soft reset to have my Socket SDIO low power modem registered and recognized by the PDA
2) The touchscreen seems very very fragile
3) Apps hang and you have to soft reset or go into the pda's equivalent of Windows' task manager and kill it (I never had this issue with Palm OS)

Overall I have been happy with the PDA, but the need to soft reset often and the need to kill apps still alive in memory are definitely grating on my nerves. I still like it better than Palm OS devices b/c I had a Palm V for 3 years and the interface got a little boring to use. If I had more money I would buy a higher end Ipaq ($350+ range) so that it had more features built in and also would probably be more stable. If you can afford a more expensive Ipaq, go for it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Piece of Junk
Review: I bought the Ipaq 1935 and the screen cracked when going from cold (outside of my house) to warm (inside of my house). HP says it is not covered under warraty. I bought another (the fool I am)the LCD on this one broke after 2 days! I did nothing to this machine. It broke while attached to my hip. It too was not covered under warranty. HP is not what it used to be. I strongly encourage to buy another brand. I have no beef with Amazon. They are great.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Best Buy for the price
Review: I bought this item couple of days back to replace my Casio organizer. I am really impressed with its size and the features. I choose this one over Palm and Sony Clie, because it's using the Microsoft pocket PC OS. It's very intutive as long as you are a PC user and it works very well with your MS Outlook. However I am not getting an appropriate 'Case' for this item. Most of the cases you get in the market are bigger for this item. So you loose the advantage of its ultra compact size. I would definitely recommend this item, for the price and its feature.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: an Excellent PDA!
Review: I have been using this for about 3 months up to now.

Very Good PDA. some previous reviewers has praised this PDA's other good functions exhaustly (e.g, it has removable battery.). I just want to mention one of its additional function here:

With an Sandisk SD Wi-Fi card (802.11b), you can connect this to wireless internet. The set up is a breeze and the use for wireless internet is very smooth.

Taking into account of its cheap price, it is an excellent PDA, definetely getting 5 stars.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Practically Perfect Pocket PC
Review: I have used both Palm and Handspring PDA for eight years. I needed more than the PalmOS has to offer. I found it after carefully reviewing the Pocket PC market. HP has gotten the PDA unit practically perfect! However, the separate cradle, power supply, and USB connector keep me from giving this product 5 stars overall. It works perfect with the Targus Universal Wireless Keyboard too. It Syncs perfect with Windows 2000 and XP.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Amazon sent me a bad one!
Review: I just now started to use POCKET PC H1935 I bought from Amazon. I TRIED to sync the IPAQ to my Toshiba Satellite laptop BUT FAILED. I spent the whole night trying to figure things out. Computer expert said it's bad. Then, a friend of mine who is also a computer expert tried to sync it with my laptop. He finally gave up and said, it's ALSO NO USE. THE THING IS THIS IPAQ IS BRAND NEW. MY RECOMMENDATION-YOU CAN GO TO AMAZON FOR PEOPLE'S REVIEW OF PRODUCTS. THEY TELL A LOT OF TRUTH. THIS IS LESSON LEARNED, CONSUMERS---BEWARE!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great product! My first PDA!
Review: I love this little thing! I have never had a PDA before, and this one has been very easy and quick to use. I bought it with the $50 manufacturers rebate, which makes it even better. The colors are fabulous, I have no complaints there, everyone who sees it is impressed. Battery life seems to be pretty long, but it is a new battery, and I haven't attached a modem card to it yet, so that may suck up more battery life. It's the smallest handheld out there for what it can do, it is so light and thin. The sync program is very easy to use, just follow the directions when you install it, there is a proper order to whether the program should be installed first or the handhelld connected to the PC first, don't screw that up. I love mine, and I'd recommend it to friends.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: All that and smaller!
Review: I purchased the 1935 after having used NEC Hpcs, and and older ipaq 3800 series. personally I have no use for the add-on sleeves for the larger ipaqs, and I did want smaller size. I use this device for contacts, callendar, map program (MS pocket streets & trips) bible software and more. Reviews saying there are few accesories and cases have not looked around enough, I found 9 different cases for this model (search under ipaq 1910 to increase results) before settling on a vaja leather case that I love. needs an SD card if you plan on storing large amounts of maps, music etc. If you have never used windows pocket pc OS before, you will find that it is anoying to close or switch between tasks, I recommend downloading a task manager called magic button (free) from www.trancreative.com to make task management work much like regular windows. I love the bright screen, the small size and for a 203mz processor I find it to be very fast, although I do not play games or videos.

Cons: I would have liked a case and cradle and all of the things that other reviewers said, but for the price I can't complain and I prefer to customize those things anyway.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Compared to Toshiba e355
Review: I recently decided to upgrade from a Jornada 680 HPC (very old version of WinCE) because mine is breaking down and HP no longer supports this old platform (although I love the form factor with keyboard). Anyway, I decided to go for the H1935 but after few days switched to the Toshiba e355. I thought it would be useful to note down a brief comparison to help others who are considering the two. I really liked the iPAQ but the Toshiba has a number of things that are better for me:

HP iPAQ H1935

• Quite a bit smaller and lighter than Toshiba (too small for me)and hence buttons not good for big fingers!
• Has a removable battery so you can keep a spare
• More software on CD (e.g. Adobe)
• Small power cable makes it easy to carry around and usb cradle comes with another "head" so you can charge it at the same time using only one cable.
• No cradle (I like to have my PDA upright on the desk)
• Stylus awkward to extract
• Headphone socket is smaller than usual requiring an adapter(included)
• Only 3 mth warranty

TOSHIBA e355
• Larger and heavier - fits in my hand better
• Comes with cradle which fits it really snuggly so it won't fall out even if held upside down. On the other hand it's heavy for traveling you may want a separate cable.
• Power cable is like a laptop's (bad for domestic but good for international travel as you only need to purchase the power end of the country visiting and it will work)
• No external battery
• Side scroll button is very handy
• Central toggle button much easier to use
• Home button has a feature not in iPAQ which accesses 4 tabs on screen for easy organization of apps. One tab lists running apps so you can easily close down running applications (in Pocket PCs the x only minimizes programs - they are still running in the background taking up memory. Programs tab includes app backup that backs up to SD
• Uses regular headphone socket size
• Faster processor
• 1 year warranty
• Cheaper

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Hewlett-Packard 1935
Review: I recently got an HP 1935. I was turned on by its cheap price, and since this is my first Pocket PC, I didn't want to invest in something more expensive. It's very little and light. Although it's not the fastes PDA on the market, I don't think there's really big difference since it takes not even a second for most things to load up. It lacks the Bluetooth which it has a Irda beaming thing. So you don't really need if you don't have anything else Bluetooth enabled.
My only turnoff is the screen. Already there's two scrates. I treat the thing like a baby. So I don't know how they got there. I recommend this PDA. But just be VERY carefl with the screen.


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