My name is Frank, and I live in Bristol, UK, as a junior photographer and trainee aircraft pilot.
My name is Frank, and I live in Bristol, UK, as a junior photographer and trainee aircraft pilot.
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Compaq's iPAQ H3970 is by far one of the most commonly used PDAs on the market, and for a reason too.
The H3970 has all the gadgets. Bluetooth, an SD expansion slot, Infrared, a 64mb internal memory. It may not seem much, but the SD expansion slot can hold up to 4GB on a card! Bluetooth's range is around 5-10 meters, and can be used to sync your PDA with a computer, transfer data, or do any number of other things. The PDA features a normal headphone jack that can be plugged into any standard speaker, headphone or audio cable.
One thing I did notice, is that the pre-loaded operating system, Windows Mobile 2002, isn't the best in the World. It is slow, and can have loads of errors at times. When upgraded to Windows Mobile 2003, the H3970 peforms extremely well, playing videos with no stutter, lag and yet it improves battery power as well.
The amount of accessories for the H3970 isn't terrific, I'll give you that. However, you can still buy a Compact Flash expansion sleeve, GPS recievers that communicate over Bluetooth, and even an SD clip-on camera that allows you to take pictures at up to a resolution of 5 megapixels in some cases.
Battery power can be up to 4 hours constantly on and playing music, if you upgrade to Windows Mobile 2003 and download a battery-overclocking application, available from Handango. 3 hours is the default brand-new, which is more than acceptable while blaring out music.
If you are interested in buying this iPAQ, then you might as well get hold of an upgrade CD for it at the same time, to take advantage of the hardware it boasts. By all means, stick with WM2002, but Bluetooth, video playback, sound, and battery life will almost definately become compromised if you do so.
Overall, it has brought me years of happiness, and even though there are smaller, more powerfull models of HP's iPAQ out there, I won't be upgrading for a good long while.
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