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Summary: Blazing Fast!
Review: I recieved my 3950 a few days ago, and haven't put it down since. Extremely fast. All programs work excellent. The operating system (Windows 2002) is one of the best I've seen so far (if you use XP or 2000, it's second nature). What is really impressive is the handwriting recognition software... have tried it with 5 different "scribblers", and it nails 4 out of 5 words right out of the box. By the way, go ahead and get one of the expansion sleeves (you'll need it), and some extra memory (the 128 SanDisk available here on Amazon is a steal). After a nerve-wracking 30 minutes (to avoid this headache, here's a tip. Go get the updated driver from the linksys website, and skip the disc that comes with it), I got the Wireless Modem card to recognize. Works FLAWLESS on my Linksys network at my home. Bravo, Compaq! You've given us a winner here!
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Summary: magic
Review: i think this PDA the most perfect at the moment in the market!
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Summary: Love it!!!!
Review: I traded up from an Ipaq 3600 - it was getting too slow for what I needed. I hated having to use the expansion pack to add memory- I'm in the medical field and have 5 full textbooks on it- had to put it on the memory card. The expansion pack makes it too big and bulky and heavy. So I wanted a PDA with more memory and an integraded memory card.
I left my 3600 charger in a hotel room and was forced to go manual for about 6 weeks! It was horrible!!!
My new 3900 is wonderful- fast! I use Agenda Fusion for my calendar functions and the 3600 used to seize up all the time. I can put photos of my kids on the 3900 as well and all my texts are now right on the hard drive and I still have tons of space left over!
I had planned to get a Toshiba before I read the reviews of the 3900- I can't afford sudden and total memory loss and I need a durable machine. I dropped my 3600 several times (after it was already slow) and it had no change in function.
Thanks to everyone whose reviews convinced me to upgrade my Ipaq.
Customer support from Compaq has been wonderful in the past also..... we have a laptop as well that has needed servicing- it's very simple. The 3600 seized up twice and had to be sent back and they replaced it no problem. That was another factor in sticking with them.
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Summary: Simply the Best!
Review: I was a bit hesitant about spending another [price] on yet another iPAQ. Not that I disliked my previous two (I've owned the 3600 and the 3800 series), but ten seconds after I turned the unit on (3955) I was glad I did! The iPAQ 3955 works so well I have renewed confidence in the "New HP" as Compaq has merged with HP. I must admit I was a bit skeptical when the merger was announce about the future of the iPAQ, but this first model since the merger has dispelled any concerns I previously held (Although the unit and all materials are still branded COMPAQ). The Consumer IP port is exceptional, it easily relaced my Phillips Pronto 2000 Universal remote, (with color to boot!) I've even downloaded a Voice activated Universal remote version for even easier use! The remote function alone is worth about [price]! The most striking feature is definately the display. Wow! When I compared the 3800 and the 3900 on each screen with identical files, I was amazed! The colors are vivid, crisp, great contrast, depth of color and is truely superior. Videos look amazing and sound incredible due in part to the Bass and Treble controls. The speaker is clear and for MP3's the headphone jack makes the unit sound unmatched. The iPAQ's popularity makes the availability of software vast, although there is currently limited software that takes advantage of the new processor speed (twice that of the earlier models). Be warned: Nexian is still having compatability issues with the 3900 series, so your Digital Camera expansion pack won't work yet. Nexian hopes to have this fixed soon. All other accessories are compatible from the 3800 series to the 3900 series, and most all others for the 3600 series work as well (Except for cradles and other cables.) The unit has performed well to date with none of the quirks or bugs from the 3800 series. (LED issues, static with speaker, unit auto-turning on/off, unit requiring frequent soft resets, color resolution, contrast settings, etc.) As a previous owner of the iPAQ 3635, iPAQ 3835, and now the iPAQ 3955 (all purchased from Amazon.com), I can recommend the new iPAQ 3955 with overwhelming support! P.S. I was able to sell my previous units at about 80% of their original price on Amazon Marketplace, so again the investment in the iPAQ is well worth it, the depreciation is low since demand is high! I would highly recommend all you 3600 and 3800 users out there to trade up and sell your older units to those just beginning to get their feet wet with PDA's. The older units are fantastic for High School or College students, make great gifts for graduation, and the newer units (3900 series) are essential for PDA junkies/technophiles who demand cutting edge technology!
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Summary: COMPAQ IPAQ GOOD TILL IT LAST
Review: I was so happy to finally get my iPaq. New, cool, full of features and power! I had debated going with this over a Clie from Sony, and finally made my decision. The wonderful honeymoon didn't last through the first night. I charged my iPaq and installed the software. Everything went well until I powered on the unit. The first thing that made me nervous was the sinister orange eye of the charging LED that would not turn off even when not in the cradle. Some times it would blink forever. Everything else seemed to go well until the next morning when I powered on the unit to find the battery at 2%. Was I seeing things? No, the unit gave me a power warning and shut off. Weird. I charged it again and used it durring the day. After lunch I noticed that blinking light again and checked the battery. The unit turned on, couldn't power the back light, and crashed. That was it for that day until I got back to the charging cradel. Well, I returned it and got another. The same type of thing started happening again with the new one. I couldn't believe my luck. I returned it and bought one from a different store (bad batch maybe?) Well this one charged and worked ok for about a week before it went catatonic and crashed 3 to 5 times a day and required charging every night with light use. Wow. I asked around the office. Several of my co workers have iPaqs. I talked to them to find that their iPaqs spend more time as paper weights than PDAs. My friends joked endlessly about how unreliable their iPaqs have been. Upgrading is what my friends are doing. Most to a palm device. Well, I had heard enough to know it wasn't just me having the same experience with three different units. I returned my iPaq for the last time and am now the proud owner of a Sony Clie. God have mercy on iPaq users in their trials. I will pray for you.
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Summary: iPaq, a story of tragedy...
Review: I was so happy to finally get my iPaq. New, cool, full of features and power! I had debated going with this over a Clie from Sony, and finally made my decision. The wonderful honeymoon didn't last through the first night. I charged my iPaq and installed the software. Everything went well until I powered on the unit. The first thing that made me nervous was the sinister orange eye of the charging LED that would not turn off even when not in the cradle. Some times it would blink forever. Everything else seemed to go well until the next morning when I powered on the unit to find the battery at 2%. Was I seeing things? No, the unit gave me a power warning and shut off. Weird. I charged it again and used it durring the day. After lunch I noticed that blinking light again and checked the battery. The unit turned on, couldn't power the back light, and crashed. That was it for that day until I got back to the charging cradel. Well, I returned it and got another. The same type of thing started happening again with the new one. I couldn't believe my luck. I returned it and bought one from a different store (bad batch maybe?) Well this one charged and worked ok for about a week before it went catatonic and crashed 3 to 5 times a day and required charging every night with light use. Wow. I asked around the office. Several of my co workers have iPaqs. I talked to them to find that their iPaqs spend more time as paper weights than PDAs. My friends joked endlessly about how unreliable their iPaqs have been. Upgrading is what my friends are doing. Most to a palm device. Well, I had heard enough to know it wasn't just me having the same experience with three different units. I returned my iPaq for the last time and am now the proud owner of a Sony Clie. God have mercy on iPaq users in their trials. I will pray for you.
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Summary: GREAT HIGH-END CHOICE
Review: I've been dying to get a palmtop for the last year to replace my old bulky HP Jourdana. I convinced myself that I would not get one until I could get the perfect package, phone and pocket pc integrated together with high-speed wireless internet, MP3 capability, infrared remote control, all of it. I waited and waited. Unfortunately the first generation of phone/PDAs is out and they all .... I want pocket PC not palm, so I checked out the Verizon Thera, and I actually physically laughed at the Verizon guy when he was showing it to me. For over [$$$] you get a PDA that can be a speakerphone, or you can carry a headset. The screen is awful. Their "high speed" wireless internet is [$$$] a month and no one can seem to get it to go faster than 14.4K. So I decided I definately was not waiting for the next set to come out. I got this Ipaq and kept my cell phone.I don't like the palms, primarily becuase the graffiti pad is built into the screen; on a pocket pc you can choose between keyboard or a graffiti type recognition system or have the option to use the FULL screen. My girlfriend wanted one so I bought her a color palm m130(she mostly wanted the removable faceplates) and that one is really nice. Palms are definately the better option if you want an organizer, you would like some cool games and programs, and you want to pay less than [$$$} for one. She loves it, but I wanted more. This Ipaq has the BEST screen. They made it thinner so there is not that annoying gap between the actual screen and where the stylus touches the pad. Makes it easier to use. The audio is very good; use one of those cassette adapters for a car cd player, plug it into this and you have awesome skip free digital quality music to pump. The screen is nice and big and VERY bright. I have the brightness turned about halfway down, and it is still plenty bright enough in all environments. The Battery life is the best of any pocket PC, one of the main advantages to having a palm. This can go all weekend without a charge and I use it constantly. Turning the screen brightness down really helps. The feature I love the MOST is the consumer infrared port. It RULES. I have a lot of electronics, all the audio goes through a 5.1 reciever, and the video mostly goes directly to my TV (to take advantage of s-video and colorstream). Comcast has a motorola cable box that it is IMPOSSIBLE to get to work with regular universal remotes. This Ipaq can control EVERYTHING. It actually learns the infrared signal from any remote you have, and then you program it yourself to a device, room, and person. You can program MACROS too. I walk in the door, and with one touch this thing turns on my reciever, vcr, cable box, dvd player, and TV, sets the TV to the correct input mode, sets the reciever to the correct input and sound mode, and brings up the cable guide for me, PLUS turns on my air conditioner, sets it on high cool, and turns on my ceiling fan. With another touch it switches both the reciever and TV to DVD mode, changes to digital sound, turns down the brigtness of my TV and I'm ready to watch a movie, with ONE TOUCH. I also have a macro that turns everything off with one touch. My buddes are SO jealous of my home theater now hehe. The writing recognition is WAY better than Graffiti. It can work with whole sentenes at a time instead of individual letters. It lets me go way faster, and actually makes a decent substitute for jotting notes down on paper. You have to try it to believe it. It's the 'transcriber' option, not the letter recognition. It recognizes printing, cursive, or a mixture of both; and you write across the whole screen instead of a little pad like Palm. All in all I love this thing and I don't regret buying it at all. It is expensive, so if you are looking to save some money, go to maybe a Toshiba or a Palm. My stragegy is to own this for a year or so, by that time hopefully someone will create a viable phone/PDA hybrid, and then sell this one to buy the hybrid. Either that or just keep it as my universal remote control haha. Here's what I DON'T like about it. Mostly the physical shape of the thing. My gf's palm is more contoured to the hand and lighter, it is much easier to hold. The main thing is that on hers, you detach the faceplate and fit a screen protector right there; if you want a screen protector for this Ipaq you have to get a special bulky case and increase the weight and size. I'm finding that hard to live with. My gf's palm also has a built in black plastic screen cover (cover, not stick on-protector like I was talking about) that flips UP. That is important because you hold it on one side with your hand. This comes with a really ... plastic case that opens to the side, and it is very inconvenient. I'm going to shop for cases, but with the palm you don't need one at all. Another thing I don't like is that to get wireless internet or add more memory than the one slot, you need those bulky sleeves. However, since I kept my phone I use the internet on that and I will not need any of those sleeves unless I choose to go ahead and get a GPS add on (which I am going to do) In that case, the GPS will just stay in the car. ALl in all, this thing is the best buy if you are willing to spend the money to have the BEST palmtop pc. I could not be more happy with it.
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Summary: How did I ever get along without this?
Review: I've had this a week and it blows all Palm OS devices away. I only use my small Treo 90 when weight and size are a major factor. This is not to say that this is huge and heavy. It is however a loaded machine that does everything well, including the ability to still be viewable on a sunny day, most useful since much of my work takes me outside. I wouldn't recommend this unit for the teen gamers or those needing only a calendar and note pad as it is a full featured business machine that does it all. Imagine Window XP Pro in the palm of your hand. If a PDA has become a primary fixture in your life then this one is a must have.
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Summary: COMPAQ IPAQ 3955 (ROCKS)
Review: K I KNOW YOU HERD ABOUT IT IT IS VERY COOL AND IT HAS ITERNET WEB AND YOU CAN TALK TO OTHER PEOPLE LIKE A WALKI TALKI! OR YOU CAN TYPE WORDS TO OTHER PEOPLE. NOW TO ME THERE ARE NO DOWN FALLS BUT THINK SO DONT PAY ATTENTION TO THEM NOW WERE WAS I OH YEAH IT HAS COLOR AND IS VOICE COMMANDED THAT MEAN TALK IN TO THE SPEAKER AND SET THE TIME AND WHEN THAT TIME HITS ON YOUR Compaq IPAQ 3955 IT WILL PLAY THE MESSAGE LIKE (((YOUR OWN VOICE LIKE YOU HAVE 5:30 MEETING WITH DR.quack K THIS PDA IS SO COOL PLZ buy it it is a big A MUST!NOW THE SCREEN IS GREAT AND ALSO COLOR AND IT HAS SOME STUNNING DESKSTOPS!GRAPHICS IS SO COOL AND IT HAS 16 BIT COLOR GRAPHAIC AND I HERD IT PLAY MOVIES! AND SHAP AND CLEAR! SOUND ITS GREAT ALSO YOU CAN CONTROL THE VOLUME CONTROLL SO WHEN YOU IN PUBIC IT DOESENT YELL!!.BATTERY IS AWSOME COOL BECAUSE YOU CAN RECHARGE IT AND IT COMES WITH A CRADLE I THINK THE Compaq IPAQ 3955 HAS A COOL SHARP DESIGHN NOW THE MEMORY IS 64 MB IF YOU DONT KNOW THAT THAT IS LIKE A PEMIUM 4 COMPUTER BUT ITS FITS RIGHT IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND!!!NOW I HERD OF AND KNOW YOU CAN PLAY GAMES COOL!! NOW THINKS COMES WITHS THOSE PEN THINGS WELL LAST ONE EMAIL YES INDEED ITS DOES HAS E MAIL SO IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS YOU CAN EMAIL ! SO I HOPED I HELPED YOU ENOUTH TO GET STARTED AND PLZ BUY IT IS WORTH THE MONEY.ALL IN ALL I SAY FOR MY SELF IT (ROCKS!
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Summary: Terrific
Review: Last year I got the Palm Vx for a holiday gift and I was very happy with it. It didn't come stocked with many feature but it did what I needed it to do and then some. I kept it for a year but this year, with the falling price of Compaqs in my area, I decided to grab my dream PDA. Let me tell you the iPAQ is the epitomy of PDA, there's nothing like it. When you first see it, what catches your eye is the sleek design of it. Once the screen turns on and see the 65,000 color screen, you'll know what seperates a Palm from a Pocket PC. The features that come with this Pocket PC: expandibility, 64MB ROM, Handwriting Recognition, Speakers, Mic/Voice Recorder are just obscene. Its hard getting past all of the great things it allows you to do and getting to work. The best part about this Pocket PC would be multitasking however. On PDAs that run on Palm OS (Palms....Clies....Visors....) there is only one task at a time. With the iPAQ I can listen to music, synchronize with my desktop and do work simultaneously. And the sound quality on the Pocket PC is actually quite good and there's a headphone jack if you need it anyway. The iPAQ is hard-pressed to be outdated because Compaq included an expansion slot. With this you can turn your Pocket PC into a digital camera, a cell phone, a GPS system, etc. And the screen, is among the largest on any Pocket PC (save for the newer Clies) and what it lacks in size, it makes up for in style. The iPAQ is a gorgeous PDA, no doubt about it
It fits comfortably into your pocket. So if you own a PDA and you're looking to updgrade or you want to purchase a very nice, reliable one, grab the iPAQ.
P.S.) Last year the Compaq iPAQ was the same price as a Palm m500, the difference is laughable... Check the features on amazon.com yourself...
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