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Summary: Love It
Review: I bought the IPAQ 3955 and was in love with it from the beginning. The price was kinda high, but for the features that you get on it, the price could be worth it. I love the memory capacity, the screen is very bright, there are a lot of accessories for it and there is plenty of software out there for it. The salesman in the store said the battery would last about a year and a half. That could be the only downfall of it. The microphone on it works wonderfully. Have not used the built-in blue tooth yet. I highly recommend this. It's hard to find on the Compaq website, so I would study every review on here.
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Summary: This BABY can do it all!
Review: I got this last week at Best Buy and am really thrilled. It holds my entire address book and its handwriting recoginition is absolutely wonderful. It is very accurate. It is a lot of fun. Download games from various sites for a game machine. It is simply a POCKET PC with many features found on windows XP. It has Word, Excel, IE, EReader and much more. The 21st century is simply amazing and we are living in it!
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Summary: Power issues
Review: I have had my 3955 for only 16 months of relatively light usage (I do not even use it every day, as I quickly learned how rapidly the unit burns through a charge). Now, for no apparent reason, the internal battery will not hold a charge . . . fully charged off the docking station, the unit is fully discharged (and all my data and settings gone!) less than 24 hours later after the unit has not been used at all! For this kind of money, I would expect better battery life and the ability to self-install a new battery, rather than having to send the unit in for service. I will probably not purchase another iPaq unless these issues are addressed by HP.
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Summary: COMPAQ IPAQ GOOD TILL IT LAST
Review: i have had my share of POCKET PCs, PDA and even the CE devices. My very first PDA is the Casio Pocket Viewer, next is the Casio BE-300, after that i had my very first COMPAQ 3850 and now its the COMPAQ 3970.I kinda like my COMPAQ 3970, it has all the good features youre looking for a pocket PC, bluetooth, picture viewer, calendar, notes, contacts, tasks... but maybe thats all there is. I enjoyed it for almost a year, im just weary about how COMPAQ will adress this issue, "WHAT IF MY COMPAQ WOULD BE DEAD AFTER A YEAR", this problem keeps buggin me, any problems with my compaq would be a disater, its a timebomb waiting to explode and shatter all your informations into dirt. THe problem is the battery it works well now, but what will happen in the future. Its expensive the time i bought it, but now newer models are coming in with more features. SO if i were you, buy the newer models, they're more reliable.
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Summary: Good product, always back up
Review: I have had this since it first came out and I have been very happy with it. I use my ipaq for everything now: contacts, schedule patients, music when I workout, email, games, and as an alarm clock. I have it in a wallet case, so it is also my wallet with my ids and credit card. It took awhile to get used to using this instead of pieces of paper and for anyone interested in investing in one should really consider this...it takes time and patience to learn how to use the ipaq in your everyday life. Being in the medical field it has become an invaluable resource for information I need to get my hands on quickly.
For those who buy this, I give two recommendations:
1) back up! You can lose much data through freeze ups. It is the nature of the technology and it is going to have some problems now and then.
2) get an extended warranty program. If you use it alot, like I do, it will probably break within a year. After all it is a small machine with alot of technology and it is bouncing around with you all day long. Other than that, enjoy it! It is amazing that we can have all this technology in our hands! I can't wait till they come out with a car starter/door opener options. As I think it about it, it will be the next thing to patient charting. We will just speak into it and it will chart patient information. Maybe it will turn on our house lights, computer, oven, cars,etc. one day.... I look forward to that!
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Summary: What a piece of icrap
Review: I have never been so disapointed after using my IPAQ. Do not purchase one of these icraps. They are a porqueria. The OS crashes on a daily basis. Please purchase a handheld that is running the Palm OS. My son is still running my old palm 3x (5 years strong). Out of 30 days out of a month, the icrap would work properly for 25 days. Do not buy one. I am the only person that has had these issues. I work in the IT industry and I have run into many people with the same issues. Buy a real PDA not a self tortured system. If you want to hone in on your troubleshooting skills without resolution, then this is the product for you. May the force be with you...
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Summary: What a piece of icrap
Review: I have never been so disapointed after using my IPAQ. Do not purchase one of these icraps. They are a porqueria. The OS crashes on a daily basis. Please purchase a handheld that is running the Palm OS. My son is still running my old palm 3x (5 years strong). Out of 30 days out of a month, the icrap would work properly for 25 days. Do not buy one. I am the only person that has had these issues. I work in the IT industry and I have run into many people with the same issues. Buy a real PDA not a self tortured system. If you want to hone in on your troubleshooting skills without resolution, then this is the product for you. May the force be with you...
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Summary: Very Impressive
Review: I just purchased the 3955 and it is absolutely amazing. First of all, the screen just blew me away. The screen on my old 3835 just isn't in the same league. You may hear people complaining about the short battery life, but pay no attention to them; they have never owned a 3955 and are stereotyping all PDAs with fast processors and color screens. Thanks to the energy-conserving screen, the battery life is quite impressive and I have never even come close to completely discharging the battery. Just about the only complaint I have is that the 400 MHz XScale processor is a little bit slower than the 206 MHz StrongARM processor in the 3835, but the difference in the screen quality makes the 3955 better by far.
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Summary: The BEST SCREEN out there
Review: I like PDA's and had several. Let me tell you something: compared SIDE by SIDE with all the other PDA's screens out there and you'll decide in less than 1 minute: this is the BEST screen I've ever seen.
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Summary: Elegant & Functional
Review: I recently replaced my 3600 Series iPaq with the 3955. What a difference! This iPaq is truly a joy. Easy setup. Clear instructions. Solid construction. Excellent sound quality. And a screen that makes the vivid color display on my old iPaq look like mud in comparison. True, the iPaq is a bit pricey and the learning curve - as with all Pocket PC's - is a little steeper than with a Palm, but once you get familiar with it (and it doesn't take long) there's nothing like it. Highly recommended.
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