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Summary: ITS A MUST!!!!
Review: This was one of the best PDAs that I ever had and I have had more than enough of them. Two Jornadas (54-568)and a Toshiba e740. The Jornadas were really good but they had become outdated. The Toshiba was a good idea with too many problems. Battery life was horrible. The buttons were made for a 4 year old. I recomend it to anyone who wants their PDA to be challenging because that is how I describe the Toshiba. The iPAQ was a message from heaven, figuratively speaking. Its one of the best PDAs that I have had. Battery life is awesome. It works specifically well with Plus! Sync & Go, a program to watch video content offline. It is a good PDA. The screen. Too much to say. WAY too much to say. Go to a demo and look at it yourself. Its beautifull. The bad parts: Case. Should be better. Slots: Needs a CF slot built in. Battery: replaceable like the 5455. The rest is good. The processor is OK. Look at other sites for more info. Pocketnow.com has a great review.
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Summary: If you can be organized without it, then you don't need it.
Review: Unless you are someone who sruggles to keep track of appointments and phone numbers, then iPaqs, or even PDAs in general, are not for you. While the Compaq iPaq has a good color screen (easily readable when lit up), decent battery life, and a slew of useful programs, a buyer should remember that this is definately not a portable PC. It is only a portable organizer, and a digital one at that.
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Summary: If you want a pocketpc, choose this one.
Review: Well, for those wondering between a 3800 and a 3900... get the 3900. If for nothing else, battery life. Granted, my comparison is from the 3600 series, my first, but all I have heard is this thing even blows the 38xx in terms of battery life. I know that I found the battery life *PITIFUL* for the 3600... I couldn't even use it all i wanted to in one day without it warning me it was running out. This thing I have on for like 3 days and it's still got like 73% battery life left (or more if I have used it less).The accuracy of where you tap the screen also does seem to be better. And it synchronizes with the computer better, or rather less problems getting the two to recognize they are connected (I've only once had the problem with this one, after I disconnected it while it was trying to connect, and I've actually done that a few times and it has no problems, just one time too many this time). The 3600 I had all the time would have problems recognizing it was attached. Also, this one seems a whole lot more durable too (durability is very good in a handheld device). Haven't given it too many major falls but it has had some falls and it still works fine. The other one had a foot fall out of my purse (I didn't notice it was open) and stopped working (at which point I never bothered to get the 3600 working again... battery life itself made it kinda pointless except as a toy. This one's battery life is so good I've come to really rely on it). Another really nice feature is the fact that you can set the battery conservation time. That means you can set it to turn off and stay off til it is recharged anywhere from a 24 hour safe period (meaning that for 24 hours after it hits that point it won't lose your data) to like three days or something like that. This way you can squeeze more power out of the battery if you want to use it longer (but know you are going to be able to get to a recharger relatively soon), or make sure there is plenty of time left to get to a recharger but have less time to use it. It's a very important feature when you realize that once the battery runs out of charge your data goes kaput (and the fact that the min they allow you to run still keeps your data for 24 hours is nice, and that still gives you a whole lot of usage time out of the PDA). One of the few bad things I can think about it is it doesn't seem that much faster than the 3600 that I can remember. But personally give me same speed and much better battery life over faster and "bad" battery life. A large minus to the 3900 (and any Ipaq so far) is the fact you still cannot replace the battery without sending it to Compaq (well, I know that will change, they have kits now you can buy to replace the battery in the 36xx, even one that has a much longer battery life battery). But the point is having a battery that you supposedly have to get Compaq to replace when it dies is a *large* minus. I mean come on, you pay 600 dollars for it, and they treat it like something that is disposable once the battery dies. This is something I thought Compaq should be slapped for when I got the 3600 and I am very disappointed they are still doing it this way. Oh, and I'm not sure if the 3800 had one, but the 36 series didn't, and I'm glad Compaq finally got the sense to put in some sort of "floppy drive" so to speak (the SD slot). Would have rather had flash but better than nothing. I once heard some one say that the whole point of not having a slot was so that you could pick whether you wanted it to be thick or not.. but the ones that had it integrated didn't seem all that thicker and having a sleeve on the ipaq did make it *much* thicker. Nice to have an integrated removable data slot (and hardly noticeably thicker).
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Summary: Pocket PC - Amazing
Review: While most of the reviewers have done a great job of examining the various technical advantages of this amazing little device, I'd like to take a moment just to describe the incomparable beauty of the operating system itself. Long gone are the days when the Pocket PC Operating System was home to a handful of difficult-to-use, technical software hash-togethers; today, a Pocket PC can do everything and anything. Microsoft's original marketing ploy for the device - "Can your Palm do this?" (answer: not unless its holding a Pocket PC) - rings truer than ever. Some of the things you can do with a Pocket PC: 1) Using a connection to the internet (purchase a Secure Digital wi-fi card and stick it into the iPaq) you can transfer money and check your bank balance, if you bank support online banking. Do it anywhere in the house, or even at Starbucks, using their wi-fi hotspots.
2) You can watch your DVD movies on the airplane on the iPaq using Pocket TV; checkout [the website] for idiot-proof instructions on how to transfer those movies you downloaded...(legal movies, of course ;) into your Pocket PC in no time flat.
3) Play Super Nintendo and Original Nintendo - as well as Gameboy games - on your Pocket PC. Of course, ROMS are generally illegal. So in reality, you cannot do this. But if you were so inclined, various emulators - all of them, except for the SNES, are full speed (and larger than original screen size, in the Gameboy emulator's case) - are readily available on the internet. Checkout pocketgamer.org for info on Pocket PC gaming.
4) Use it as a remote control. If you've misplaced the sound system remote again, simply use the iPaq sitting in your pocket.
5) Look at (and edit) your digital camera pictures. If your digital camera uses secure digital cards, it is simply a matter of sliding the card into your iPaq. Otherwise, purchase the extra-slim Silver Slider Expansion Pack for the iPaq (about $50) and then you can insert compact flash cards (a more popular digital camera format) into the iPaq.
6) Get the latest headlines and news briefs from the Internet every morning using Microsoft Plus Sync'n Go (available in MS Plus!: Digital Media Edition, available to purchase and download over the Internet) and watch MSNBC at work or in the bus. No commercials, no advertisement, such a quick rundown of the day's news. Simply dock your Pocket PC in the morning, and you're all set.
7) Play Quake - the original, fully 3D version - on your Pocket PC. Fully legal to play the demo version on the optimized Pocket Quake engine, available to download for free at pocketmatrix.com
8) Play Tomb Raider, Simcity 2000, and, within months, the complete version of Worms World Party on your device. All are available to purchase and download from trusted online retailers like handango.com
9) Replace all your glove compartment maps with MS Pocket Streets, available for free from MS to download over the Internet. Maps are fully zoomable; streets appear just like on a real map, or just click on any street to identify it. If you are really into, purchase Pocket Copilot, a black plastic sleeve with an antenna that slides onto your iPaq and makes it a full-color, ultra-professional GPS system with audio instructions ("Next intersection, turn right"). Even comes with a suction cup holder so you can attach the GPSed iPaq to your car dashboard.
10) Experience e-Books the way they were meant to be experienced. Countless classics, from Kurt Vonnegut to George Orwell, are available...And anything published in the 1920's and earlier (Hemmingway, anyone?) is copyright-free; in other words, go to goggle and type in the book's title and "Microsoft Reader ebook" along with free, and you're bound to find something. Otherwise, check [online] to find out if your favorite book is available to purchase for MS Reader, Palm Reader, or Adobe Reader (all compatible with Pocket PC, even the second one!)
11) Edit documents with on the fly spell-checking (i.e. underlines mistakes in red as you type) along with synonyms, pictures, headers, tables, etc. using Textmaker, a third party app that is as fully functional as Word in every single way.
12) Forget the dictionary; 8 megabytes or less is enough for virtually any of the various dictionary (and translator) products available for Pocket PC.
13) Play the shareware versions (or full, if you own the originals) of Hexen, Heretic, and Doom, all for free. Open source engines for all three games are available, and easily accessible, on the Internet. Take a peak at pocketgamer.org to find out more.
14) Using Thunderhawk, a third party Internet Browser, you can view websites in 100% full "virtual" resolution. When you type in a site address, the website first goes through Thunderhawk's servers and is transformed into a virtual page that then appears on your Pocket PC. Everything...appears just as it does on your PC, with support for all cookies and proprietary standards. Palm cannot match that - it is 100% real web browsing. ...In other words, calling a Pocket PC an organizer is an understatement like no other. This is a PC, with all the advantages of portability, that fits in your pocket. Amazing little gadget - if you like technology, you will adore the iPaq.
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Summary: Great and awesome HandHeld PC
Review: Words cannot even begin to describe this handheld pc. Well, I'm over exagerating a little. If you wanted to get a pocket pc, I suggest you get an Ipaq. It has the most amazing backlight and it's amazingly easy to use. There's hardly nothing that can't be done with it since it can be expanded with different kinds of expansion slots. Buy an Ipaq. My main reason for writing this review was to actually thank the merchant that provided me her great service. Since it was too late for me to rate her using rate seller, I'll just rate her service here. I give yong2_wen2 a 5. Although I recieved the incorrect item at first, I was able to return the Ipaq and get the correct model with all shipping paid. yong2_wen2 was very responsive to every email I sent providing me with great customer service.
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Summary: Great and awesome HandHeld PC
Review: Words cannot even begin to describe this handheld pc. Well, I'm over exagerating a little. If you wanted to get a pocket pc, I suggest you get an Ipaq. It has the most amazing backlight and it's amazingly easy to use. There's hardly nothing that can't be done with it since it can be expanded with different kinds of expansion slots. Buy an Ipaq. My main reason for writing this review was to actually thank the merchant that provided me her great service. Since it was too late for me to rate her using rate seller, I'll just rate her service here. I give yong2_wen2 a 5. Although I recieved the incorrect item at first, I was able to return the Ipaq and get the correct model with all shipping paid. yong2_wen2 was very responsive to every email I sent providing me with great customer service.
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