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Summary: A Great Product...when it works
Review: This product is the best of its kind. Unfortunately, there are a lot of bugs so giving this a terrific recommendation comes with some hesitation.On the plus side, everything that you read from others about this product is true. It has great features, an incredible screen, sleek design, and a super-fast processor. In addition, its easily upgradable--... you can buy the Compact Flash expansion sleeve and an IBM 1 gigabyte microdrive, which blows away the memory storage for any other device (as a standard, it has about 32 mb). The mp3's sound terrific, and it plays them LOUD. Transferring files is pretty easy--I just drag them from my desktop library into an iPaq folder, and the software does the rest. I also like being able to write notes in my own handwriting, or when I'm really lazy, just speaking into the voice recorder. In addition, there is a lot of free software out there to support this product. I've downloaded an atlas and streetmaps to several major cities. I've also found quite a few games and eBooks online. I have 3 principle gripes about this product, though I'm sure there are more. First, the Activesync software does not always work. I try to work around this by restarting my computer and the iPaq, but its still annoying. Sometimes it takes a few tries. Based on the other reviews, I'm not the only one with this problem. The other gripe is that my iPaq sometimes locks up--especially if have several appointments that 'stack' up on each other, which occurs if you miss 'dismissing' them on your iPaq. The solution to this is to do a 'soft reset', by pushing in the button on the underside of the iPaq. I didn't know about this button, so I did a 'hard reset', which erased everything I had stored. Fortunately, it was all backed up on my desktop (the ActiveSync--when it works--works both ways), but it still took me a while to get everything sorted out. Since then I do the soft reset and everything is fine. Of course, I didn't learn about this until I called technical support. This is my third gripe....>Part of this comes from the poor documentation supplied with this product. There is no hardcopy of the instructions--just a CDROM with an Adobe Acrobat file that you can print out or read from the screen (how nice of them to pass this expense on to us). Despite having over 100 pages of documentation, its troubleshooting portion was very poor. All in all, I really like this product when it works, which is 90% of the time. But... I would expect more. My recommendation would be to wait a few months...right now demand is so strong that people are paying ... on eBay, and I think the patches will eventually come through. --JN
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Summary: Active Sync Solution
Review: When i first bought my ipaq in november, i hated the fact that my computer wouldnt recognize with active sync all the time. but i found a solution that has yet to fail. do the following: 1. when active states "connecting" and it doesnt connect. take your ipaq off the cradle. 2. when active sync now says "disconnected" click on file, then get connected 3. another screen pops up and on this click next or ok 4. now a screen that shows that your computer is searching for your ipaq on all ports shows up. 5. turn off your ipaq and set it on the cradle. 6. ipaq turns on and connects. this works all the time when i have the problem and i never have to restart the computer. email me if u have any questions: stealth123@aol.com
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Summary: Active Sync Solution
Review: When i first bought my ipaq in november, i hated the fact that my computer wouldnt recognize with active sync all the time. but i found a solution that has yet to fail. do the following: 1. when active states "connecting" and it doesnt connect. take your ipaq off the cradle. 2. when active sync now says "disconnected" click on file, then get connected 3. another screen pops up and on this click next or ok 4. now a screen that shows that your computer is searching for your ipaq on all ports shows up. 5. turn off your ipaq and set it on the cradle. 6. ipaq turns on and connects. this works all the time when i have the problem and i never have to restart the computer. email me if u have any questions: stealth123@aol.com
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