HP Ipaq - a mixed bag.

Advantages: Battery life quite good, well built
Disadvantages: small screen, poor phone reception

...Background: The company I work for distributes my jobs to the field via a PDA phone. This system was introduced last February when we started out using the disastrously poor quality O2 XDA IIi pda phone, which suffers badly from poor battery life and an overwhelming aptitude to crash several times a day. In an attempt to improve the situation the company is trialling a couple of new handsets, one of which is the HP IPaq. It arrived on Friday so I charged it up to put it through its paces. I was a bit disappointed in the screen size, it is about two thirds of the size of the XDA and it is hard enough to work on that one. The overall feel of the PDA is good, it feels solid but I can't yet tell you how it responds to being bounced off the floor. The Wireless function works well enough but it was a let down to...

JeffFromPoole 28.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of HP iPAQ Hw6910 Mobile Messenger

HP Ipaq 514 - dont leave home without it

Advantages: Email downloads, handy windows mobile features
Disadvantages: Not all networks support the handset

...HPs first attempt at a mobile phone with mobile PC features, rather than their usual iPaq handhelds, with he phone as an afterthought. This phone is extremely useful and comes with lots of useful features. Running windows mobile, it has all the things you'd come to expect, MS word, excel, powerpoint etc, Wireless, bluetooth, IR, etc. Classic iPaq games like bubblebreaker are included. You can set it to use VOIP (e.g. skype) when using the wireless network to cut communications costs. I find this particulary useful when travelling to download my business emails using IMAP setup. The camera is fairly standard and voice activation is fairly difficult to get to work, unless you have a monotone voice!! There were some problems with battery time and the phone switching off but updates from HP seem to have fixed those. Overall a very...

geordieg00 14.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP iPAQ 514 Voice Messenger

The Compact iPAQ

Advantages: Lots and lots of features, light, durable, easy to use (once you know how).
Disadvantages: Can be fiddly, menu's are not always easy to use.

...the HP GPS Navigation Kit you can even turn your iPAQ 914 into a Smart Travel Companion with Turn-by-Turn Navigation (no need to buy a TomTom then). And obviously no PDA would be complete without those familiar Windows Mobile® applications for organising your daily life. Something which you may not have thought possible was the inbuilt 3 Mega pixel camera - which can capture pictures or even take videos. Full specs for 900 series HP iPAQ 910/914 include: * Integrated Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and Tri-Band HSDPA up to 7.2 M bps with: Integrated WiFi 802.11 b/g with WPA2 security Integrated Bluetooth v2.0 with EDR Integrated GPS navigation (Assisted GPS); * Windows Mobile 6 Professional, Mobile Microsoft programs included: Office Mobile, Office Outlook Mobile, Internet Explorer Mobile; * Marvell PXA...

666Nemesis666 13.03.2008 (12.03.2008) · Read review
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Review of HP iPAQ 914c Business Messenger

HP iPaq Enterprise Handheld

Advantages: Easy to use.
Disadvantages: None yet. Will update.

...I have just joined Ciao community to put the record straight on this PDA. A previous Ciao reviewer has given a negative review. I have only owned the PDA (HP iPaq 214 Enterprise Handheld) for two days. I believe I was one of the first in the UK to receive this machine as it became available from 25th January 2008. I was almost put off buying the iPaq by the other review here, but decided to give it a try. I am glad, as the PDA does everything a PDA should and at a very good speed and price. The other review here is definitely not for the iPaq 214. How did he get it some months before anyone else? The description bears no resemblance to my iPaq 214. The reviewer says the camera is appalling and defunct - it does not have a camera at all, so that clears that up. It does have 128 MB SDRAM and 256MB flash ROM, mine also came with 1GB SD card...

John369 30.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP iPAQ 214 Enterprise Handheld

HP iPAQ 114 - A fine 'basic' PDA

Advantages: Value for money, fast processor, stylus
Disadvantages: Weight (too light!), lots of pressure needed to use touch screen

...HP iPaq 114 Classic Background HP's iPAQ 114 Classic is amongst one of the newest models released by HP in its completely overhauled range. This new series of PDAs consists of; the 100 & 200 series which are basic PDAs running on Windows Mobile 6.0, the 300 series (which has built in GPS) and the 600 & 900 series which have built in cellular phones and GPS system. I am reviewing a model which sits in the 100 series. What's in the box The list below shows the contents of a HP iPAQ 114 Classic box as bought in the UK; - HP iPAQ 114 PDA - Stylus - USB Sync cable which also doubles up as a mains charger (with the supplied adapter) - Leather Carry Case - Drivers containing software for Windows XP users (Windows Vista has native support in the means of Windows Mobile Device Center') - Various literature including user...

apestyler 02.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP iPAQ 114 Classic Handheld

HP iPAQ RX3118 Pocket PC

Advantages: Very small and compact, huge amount of software available
Disadvantages: Might be too small for people with big fingers

...My review is based on the HP Ipaq RX3118 Deciding to buy A couple of years ago, I decided that I needed a PDA to help me organise things and also wanted to buy a satnav but at the time the "TomToms" were quite expensive. I decided the rough specification that I wanted out of the PDA and that I needed WIFI and Bluetooth, as well as it being Windows based. After much searching through the internet I stumbled across the HP IPAQ RX3115 on the handtec website. It had exactly what I wanted, WIFI, Bluetooth, Pocket Windows 2003, enough ram and a fairly quick processor, the unit also appeared quite compact and had decent battery life. So there it was £179.99, after a few moments of umming and arring I ordered it. The unit arrives Surprisingly it arrived the very next day, I couldn't wait to open it! I got the unit out...

almarsden 17.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP IPAQ RX3115

HP IPAQ 5550

Advantages: Multi functions with WIFI and Bluetooth
Disadvantages: Tell me if you find any

...I recently bought an IPaq PDA from Hewlett Packard, the H5550 model If there was a king of PDAs, this would be it. Where other Pocket PCs compromise in the name of hitting the right price, HP includes everything in the iPAQ H5550's neat chassis. Not content with 802.11b WLAN, this PDA features Bluetooth and fingerprint recognition. But most important of all - and the key difference between it and the iPAQ H5450 - the H5550 is the first PDA Ive spotted to include Pocket PC 2003." The H5550 was very easy to set up a connection with my desktop PC which allows you to synchronise your information between both PCand PDA . useing the latest version of ActiveSync software. The H5550 is a beautiful little gadget, measuring 5.23" (not including antenna nub) x 3.3" x .63" and weighing about 71/2 ounces it has onboard thefollowing...

johnny760 17.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of HP iPAQ Pocket PC H5550

HP iPAQ hx2490 Review by Stevengw

Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: Speaker isn't loud (Not that it matters)

...of software and games available - From audio players to system cleaners, strategie games to action. I have read a review from another user saying that it doesn't support iTunes - YES IT CAN!! As i mentioned earlier, i tend to use TCPMP for my audio & video. It is freeware and supports just about anything thrown at it. (Note, you can download seperate codecs for it by doing a little search in google - e.g. AAC Codecs for TCPMP) - It can also play flv once you have found the right codec. 8th is "how long it'll last" - Well a long time. I will never get bored of using this, and it is extremly durable - Some pda's once dropped can actually delete everything on its device storage - This one wont (Tried and tested) 9th is its connectivity. I had a hp ipaq h2210 (and loved that too) and that was great. HP have fixed the error of connecting to...

Stevengw 23.11.2007 (22.11.2007) · Read review
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Review of HP iPAQ Pocket PC Hx2490

HP's RW6815 - simple and smart

Advantages: speed, usage, flip screen, bluetooth, good battery life
Disadvantages: missing keypad, bit stocky in size

...I think HP's RW6815 feels more like a basic smartphone with its silver plastic finish. My only worry with the colour is any marks and scratches will not stand out that much as they would if it was black in colour. Below are my views/experiences with this gadget. Speed: I this its pitty fast. In technical jargon, 416MHz processor that means Windows Mobile 5 speeds along, and whatever task we were performing we couldn't complain about the iPAQ's responsiveness. Another plus point I think with it is its flip-flop cover that protects the screen from scratches. Battery/size I think handset is quite thick (I think about 19mm it said on the packing).It reckon it has a decent size battery which makes it look big but believe me it does not really feel that heavy in your hand and pocket. Now to carry on with the battery I read the HP...

sharmasonkool 20.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of HP iPAQ Rw6815 Personal Messenger

IPAQ is a dinosaur

Advantages: Good screen and processor for a small thing, connects to PC easily
Disadvantages: No phone, so limited connectivity

...I have had several Ipaqs which I primarily used as a portable diary so it would sync my diary with the one on my desktop which my secretary organised. It meant that if I was out of the office I could make an appointment knowing what was already in the diary and when I get back I would just plug it in to its docking system on the desk, the diary would update and she would immediately see the appointment I had put in. It uses active sync. Great. And the idea of having Windows functionality in a palm top was once a real advance. But then the blackberry appeared. Same functionality as the IPAQ, but with internet access, email etc, so they surely do so much more? Things have moved on. Mobiles phones such as the Apple iphone, and all sorts of other gismos now have the Wi-Fi, high speed mobile data connections and GPS that I used to...

sadoldbag 27.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of HP iPAQ 114 Classic Handheld