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Summary: Great PDA
Review: HP makes a PDA, this is my first PDA and I am very happy with it. The only problem I see is that accessories are harder to come by compared to the Palm products.
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Summary: Great Product but Poor Audio
Review: I love my Jornada but I wanted to use it as an MP3 player. There is a problem with the audio drivers/hardware. When playing MP3's you often hear pops and clicks. This is unacceptable in a product this pricey. The firmware upgrade from HP improves the sound, but does not fully resolve the problem.I highly recommend the Jornada as a PDA, but am disappointed at its poor performance as an MP3 player.
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Summary: Swappable batteries win the PDA race for HP!
Review: I had my first PDA, a Psion Series II, in March 1988. Like the early mobile telephones, the Series II was better known as 'a brick with a battery'. I progressed through the Psion range with a Series 3, a Series 3a, and my Psion experience culminated in a Series 5. With the demise of my Series 5, and the imminent demise of all Psion handheld computers, I was forced to widen my horizons. I considered the Palm m515 - nice screen, easy user interface, but ultimately limited in its potential. I considered the Compaq Ipaq range - nice screen, good interface, good expansion potential, but large, heavy, and unwieldy. So to HP: I have to confess that I am already an HP fan having used HP printers since about 1981. I have owned HP printers since 1992 - I am now using a G85 (one of the first to be released in the UK) and I have owned a HP CD-RW 9210e since about 1998. I have found all my purchases to be reliable and economical to own. However, in choosing a HP Jornada 568, the killer blow to the opposition was the ability to swap batteries. The main benefit of the old Psion range was that the computers ran on two 'AA' batteries. As long as you carried a spare pair of batteries, you could access your information. Until the Jornada 56x appeared on the scene, with other PDAs if your batteries ran dry - tough! No names, no addresses, no telephone numbers, no agenda, no MP3 to while away hours spent in airport lounges! Until the Jornada 56x I would not have considered buying a new handheld computer because they only ran on non-swappable rechargeable batteries. As far as I could see this was a recipe for disaster. Imagine being stranded in a foreign country without the correct mains adapter and a depleted battery and not being able to remember the telephone number of your contact who hasn't arrived to collect you. What are you going to do? Probably panic - unless you had the foresight to write the critical information down on paper, which rather defeats the idea of having a handheld computer!
As well as having swappable batteries, the Jornada 56x range runs the standard Pocket PC 2002 software and comes with a good range of additional software. The ability to save a system backup to the 'HP Safe Store' is a particularly good idea. The quality of the design and construction is high and the built-in flip cover is appealing (I like clamshells - I have a Motorola V50!) The screen is bright and clear and the ambient light detector helps battery conservation. I have not experienced any of the problems with dust that have been mentioned by other owners, but I am alert to this possibility.
In summary: well done HP - the master stroke of swappable batteries has converted me and I can heartily recommend the Jornada Series 56x to anyone.
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Summary: For now, the 568 is King
Review: My new Jornada 568 is useful. The built-in software allows me to create Word and Excel documents, sync with Outlook for planning and task management, read e-books, surf sync'd web content using free Avant-Go connectivity on the web (very cool). It installed in minutes and hasn't failed to perform yet. The battery life is much better than I expected--mine goes days between recharges, since I frequently shut off the power and pocket it between uses. Quality construction--yes, I have dropped it a time (or two) and it seems durable. The reminders are cool too! There's one now, gotta go.
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Summary: Watch Out for the Backlight!
Review: It is my understanding that HP improved the backlight function after the initial release. The model I saw at Staples was very bright and I didn't have it on the max. brightness setting. The one I received was very dim, even at the maximum setting. I'd recommend buying locally to ease any potential returns.
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Summary: The best available
Review: Between Compaq's and Palm devices, this is the best I had, I bought mine the very next day it came to the market to replace a jornada 548 that was stolen, and never had a problem with it, fast, reliable and with great memory. With the use of a CF-VGA adapter I bought a couple of weeks ago, now my laptop stays at the office because I give my presentations with this little marvel, traveling light and with all my information at hand.
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Summary: Top Ten Things that make Jornada the Ultimate eBook Reader
Review: ...
Here are the top ten things I love about this machine:
10. It has dusts inside the screen (just a little) to add the realistic feeling of reading the real books (well this number ten actually is the thing I hate about this Jornada).
9. Flip up cover (compare to iPAQ horizontal cover)
8. Using my thumb to flip the ebook from the side.
7. This machine also has organizer, games, build-in CF card for xtra memory, light and light (built-in lightning and not heavy).
6. Reading emails
5. Reading electronic newspaper via Mazingo and Avantgo
4. Watching video too
3. Listening to the music while reading your ebook
2. More ebooks format: Microsoft Reader, Adobe eBook, Palm eBook, Tomeraider,...
1. Battery that last longer
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Summary: Great When They Work
Review: The Jornada fantastic, but I have not found it reliable. HP have had to replace it four times in four months
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Summary: Disappointed with HP's Jornada 568
Review: To be clear, I am a big HP fan, (I own their laptops both at work and home) and I've used the Jornada 547 before I upgraded to the 568. But I'm VERY disappointed with the performance of the new 568. I've had it one week and let me tell you the glitches. First, I've had to reset the device at least once per day. Second, sometimes it turns off/sometimes it doesn't after pushing the power button. (that is simply unacceptable) Third, sometimes the backlight works when it's supposed to, sometimes it doesn't. The Activesync w/ Avantgo has been highly unreliable, perhaps 1 out of 3 times (max) does it sync successfully. The last time it synced up, it erased the settings/channels that were set-up w/ Avantgo. I AM SO DISAPPOINTED, because I had really high hopes and expectations. Sure, the chip is faster, but you know, it's still croaking under the weight of the software. HP has really let a long-time customer down.
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Summary: Everything I want, Looks Good Too
Review: I can justify this purchase for business use because of its integration with Outlook etc., but it also works as a movie player, view for digital camera pictures, mp3 player and so on (plan on buying a large compact flash card). But one application turns this into a killer machine (and you would never guess): MS Reader. I am a hardcore reader, and when palm readers and units like the Franklin reader came out, I thought the idea of giving up paper was not for me. When I ran Reader on the 568, it was GORGEOUS! The unit is easier to hold than a paperback (trying holding a book and turning pages with one hand), has an inbuilt booklight, can play mp3's while you read, and frankly the screen fonts on Reader are outstanding. I read up on it and it has something to do with the layout of color pixels on the LCD; and quite frankly iPaq's don't come close and Palm, Handspring's etc aren't even in the same ballpark. ... Most who read this undoubtably think I'm nuts reading books on this, but nuts to you. Also I've had no trouble finding books thanks to this and other eBook sites.
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