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

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.

...This is a mobile e-mail experience which many of us have only ever dreamt of. Forget using your fiddly little mobile phone keypad the iPAQ 914c has a full "QWERTY" keyboard that obviously makes text entry extremely fast and efficient. Scrolling through e-mails is made easy with a "3-way" track wheel which has a versatility rivaling the trackpad on many laptops. The iPAQ 914c is compatible with a variety of applications on/offline and when you're driving (especially helpful in a country where holding a phone whilst driving is illegal) you can have your email read aloud and reply without typing a word. It is possible to make calls and surf the web in a variety of countries around the world using 3G and Quad-band wireless technology. The iPAQ 914c performs assisted GPS and even hap Google Maps built in for easy route planning. Using...

666Nemesis666 13.03.2008 (12.03.2008) · Read review
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Review of HP iPAQ 914c Business 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 DUDE'S JOURNEY TO THE WORLD OF THE MESSENGER

Advantages: See Review
Disadvantages: lots of stuff

...Welcome to my review about windows live messenger, I will talk about the versions of the windows live messenger. Windows live messenger was called msn messenger, and lots of people passed on the name as MSN. msn is an instant messaging consumer made by Microsoft and is made to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows internet explorer 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Mobile. The customer has been part of Microsoft's Windows Live set has been a costumer since 2005. It connects to Microsoft's .NET Messenger Service. The customer was first free as MSN Messenger was made on July 22, 1999, the windows live messenger was made on December 13, 2005. Messenger 4.7 In windows live messenger you can chat to people if they are online, you can make yourself busy, be right back, away, on the phone, out to...

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Review of Microsoft MSN 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

Yahoo! Messenger - The epic messenger client

Advantages: Free, easy communication with family or friends, lots of enjoyment, really professional features
Disadvantages: Sending unexpected spam messages etc, Hacking, Adding bots on the chatroom, Slow connection

..."Yahoo! Messenger is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!" - Wikipedia.org Yahoo! Messenger is a great messenger with tons of features. It's really popular all over the planet. It has a lot of features and the best part of it IT'S FREE! Let's start with the features. The YM skins, it has tons of skins out there. It may suit your style as well. Next, freedom of making status message. Unlike other messenger clients, it doesn?t allow to make your own status message. Third one, you can make your very own avatar starting from being a fashionista up to a so called rocker. Then, you can also send tons of emoticons to your buddies, and if you?re not satisfied with the built in emoticons on YM. You can find on WWW the hidden emoticons. And if you?re not fan of emoticons you can also use...

ToxicDoll 04.07.2009 · Read review
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MSN Messenger

Advantages: Keep in touch with the large minority of internet users
Disadvantages: Prone to crashing and bugs. Spread of viruses over MSN

...Maybe you've heard of it, maybe you haven't, but MSN Messenger is definitely worth a look. It allows you to keep in touch with people from all around the world, and claims that all you need is a Hotmail email address. You don't even need that much - I'm on MSN Messenger with my ntlworld email address. All you have to do is register your email address for MSN compatability at Passport.com - this takes a few seconds, and allows you to use your email address for a whole range of different sites and services including the Microsoft Network, MSN Messenger, and eBay. MSN can be downloaded from the Microsoft website (sorry, I'm not allowed to post links on here...against Ciao rules!). MSN Messenger consists of a small window that pops up on your command when you're connected to the internet. Click the mouse to log-in, and your contact list...

scumfrogs 25.08.2002 · Read review
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Yahoo Messenger

Advantages: Enables you to talk to your friends in real-time, allows 'phone-like' conversations
Disadvantages: Very easy to hack

...I have been using Yahoo messenger for about 4/5 years now, I also use MSN, Windows and AOL messengers but have always preferred Yahoo. To use Yahoo messenger you need a Yahoo ID and password which if you dont have already you can easily get from yahoo's homepage (www.yahoo.co.uk). After you've got a yahoo ID you need to download the messenger programme, also available from the yahoo homepage. After the programmes downloaded you open the messenger and type in your yahoo ID and password, there's a box that you can check to set the programme to remember them so you dont have to type it in every time, you then connect to the internet and Yahoo messenger connects automatically. If you have the messenger set to remember your ID and password it will automatically connect everytme you connect to the internet. After you have connected to...

angel530 22.01.2006 · Read review
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Review of Yahoo! - Yahoo Messenger

IPAQ SchmIPAQ

Advantages: big enough too see off a serious mugger
Disadvantages: heavy enough to prevent escape from a serious mugger

...OK ? here goes... I have, arrayed in front of me, a Palm V and a Compaq IPAQ 3850. I am crying quietly. Why? Because having been quite content with my Palm V for several years I recently convinced myself that I needed an IPAQ. What a prat. To exacerbate matters, I didn't just settle for a basic unit. Oh no, I had to go the whole hog and get the SatNav jacket and all the full nine yards didn't I? After a brief (and I MEAN brief) honeymoon with the thing I have come to the conclusion that the IPAQ is twice the price, twice the size, twice the weight, twice as bug-ridden and has half the battery life of the Palm. As if that wasn't enough, it has an operating system which, like its big brother Windows, needs to have a lie down every now and again. To accuse it of being underdeveloped would be to do an injustice to underdeveloped...

tagheur 22.11.2002 (05.12.2002) · Read review
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The Messenger

Advantages: Good movie that is well done all the way around
Disadvantages: Joan looked pretty nuts.

...I saw this movie last night. I remember when this first came out in the theaters, there was a television miniseries about Joan of Arc about the same time with LeeLee Sobricki (I may have spelled this wrong). It was pretty good, especially LeeLee, she had done a fantastic job. I heard that “The Messenger” in the theaters was a disappointment. I wasn’t disappointed at all. I only saw two differences between the two movies. The first was that Milla Jovavich was playing Joan of Arc. The second is that this movie, ‘The Messenger”, is pretty graphic. Naturally I don’t think it totally did justice to Joan of Arc. It tended to make her look a little bit nuts. But I think it did her justice on a few other facts though. When she was imprisoned, she had been tortured, raped, and forced into wearing men...

Terrie 08.01.2001 · Read review
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Review of The Messenger - The Story of Joan Of Arc (DVD)