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Other highlights of the Compaq iPAQ include a microphone and a speaker as well as an audio-in jack. It features an infrared port for wireless data transfer. The Compaq iPAQ uses five buttons plus a five-way joystick. The iPAQ connects to either USB or serial ports. The iPAQ allows you to input data in your own handwriting, by soft keyboard, by voice recorder, or through inking. Both audible and visual alarms alert you when you have a scheduled event.
What sets this Pocket PC apart from similar devices on the market is its sleevelike expansion-pack system. The expansion-pack system allows you add functionality to suit your particular needs. Expansion-pack options currently include a CompactFlash pack, the ability to attach a CompactFlash card slot to your iPAQ, an executive leather and PC Card expansion pack, and a water-resistant sports pack. In the future, Compaq plans to release a global positioning system pack, so you can turn your iPAQ pocket PC into a GPS unit.
The Compaq iPAQ is sporty and small. At 5.11 by 3.28 by 0.62 inches and 6 ounces, it fits in your hand or slides into your pocket with ease. Don't let the size fool you into thinking you don't get many applications with your iPAQ. You receive a great deal of Microsoft software, such as Pocket versions of Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, and Outlook as well as the full desktop version of Outlook 2000. Compaq also has built-in utilities so that frequent actions--such as switching between tasks, adjusting volume, or changing backlighting--are only a click away.
Compaq offers a one-year warranty on parts and labor for the iPAQ.
What's in the box
The brilliant and well-lighted TFT display is easily read under any cirmcumstances (even bright daylight), and the touch screen and stylus pen make standard (short) input hassle-free. Handwriting recognition is very good, can be adapted to your personal hand. For more significant amounts of text, a fold-up keyboard should be used (but for serious word-processing, better use a full-fledged notebook instead).
Not only windows can be run on this little machine, it is also LINUX compatible and can be used for serious UNIX Systems Administration using wireless add-ons.
Special Linux version available: best of them, LISA Systems' iPAQ that comes pre-installed with mLinux 1.0 for advanced users. A highly interesting special for System Developers and IT pros. ... The free Open Source LINUX Operating System is now available to palmtop computers!
iPAQ with Windows integrates easily with MS-Outlook. The LINUX version supports synchronisation with appropriate LINUX applications. Either way, you get a highly professional palmtop computer connecting to your desktop and existing infrastructure.
Both casio and ipaq have are powerful unites, here are a little differences, other then those ipaq bugs:
1. Display. Casio displayes over 65,000 colors and ipaq has 4,086. For those of you who cares of color and picture quality, you know the difference. The casio delivers better picture quality indoors. Because ipaq uses different display technology, it has much better display out doors. You can hardly see casio's screen when out door an under the sun. So you have to thing if you use your PDA out doors more or if you mostly use it in indoor environment.
2. Ipaq have a faster CPU speed according to the tech feature. I didn't acutally test them side by side for the speed. But after one month of using my em-500, I thing the casio em-500's speed is very fast, it runs all my applications very quick and smooth. So I think the ipaq should be ever faster too.
Bottom line, read both ipaq and casio e-125(orem-500)'s users review and go to the shop to compare both before you spend your money. They are not cheep.
for example:
1. many times (almost every time I switch the machine on) the screen is "back to front" and you must restart the machine until it comes back.
2. the screen is not sealed properly so dust can come in from the stylus hole and get between the screen and the plastic cover.
3.the joystick works in a special signal to the processor which makes it impossible to move to an angle or to use two buttons at once which takes all the fun out of games.
I heard Microsoft is working on solving this problem.
after checking out about these problems I was told that Compaq knows all about them all over the world and working to fix them and that most of them are caused from putting the ipaq in the pocket and sitting on it (which I did)..
I contacted Compaq in Israel and got great support and was told to bring the ipaq in and they will take care of all the problems, I know that in the U.S. Compaq sends you home a special box to send it in to be fixed or replaced.
My recommendation is WAIT, I heard a new model is about to come out soon with 400 and 500 mhz, and with more built in memory, and you should wait for these problems to be fixed.
If not of these problems I would have given it 5 stars...
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
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
I would strongly recommend this product.
I like having Excel and Word available. The screen is very readable and the unit has good performance. Compaq has just done a very poor job of implementing the concept.
Buy something else!
I spent enough money on this unit and was happier using my Motorola True Sync program and hardware (startac) rather then the Compaq, Ipaq.
Sorry to disappoint some of you, I love the concept but it does not work properly perhaps with certain computers.
Meaning - the hardware is reliable, packaging and setup is easy (albeit a bit disjointed between setting up add-ons and optional software), and help documentation is useful. The USB operates flawlessly, but don't expect the same if you are trying to Sync using the infra-red.
The biggest issues I've found are with Microsoft's ActiveSync utility and Microsoft Money. Even with the latest patches and updates these programs exhibit consistent problems. Money will generally corrupt its database and find your file unreadable, which in turn usually causes a critical error in Money. Reinstalling only helps for a short while (30days tops).
ActiveSync has problems releasing resources, especially when using IR sync. When using IR to synch, ActiveSync will keep your iPAQs connection open, even after turning off your iPAQ. The only "clean" way I've found to let the resources go is to ENDTASK its key application WCESCOMM. ActiveSync also seems to get confused with Outlook2000, which at times is unable to read without shutting down all Outlook & ActiveSynch threads.
In Short: Yeah its neat, it plays MPG, and connects to Outlook - but if you spend you're time troubleshooting, is it worth it? I suggest waiting another year for the PocketPC platform to mature a little, and for the vendors to get the complaints to Microsoft addressed. Get a Palm for now.
One, it looks the best out of all of the PDA's. It has a sleek, futuristic, design, unlike the Jornada, for example, which is just plain black.
Two, the stylus can store inside of the body, so there is less of a chance of losing it and you don't have to carry it around separately.
Three, It has an Mp3 player, which is one of the main reasons I picked it over the Palm and Visor, in which an Mp3 expansion costs as much as the PDA itself.
Four, the writing area is retractable and there is an on-screen keyboard; the Palm and Visor don't have the keyboard, and the writing area takes up precious screen space.
Five, the processor is an Intel Strong ARM 206MHz; the other pocket PC's only have 133MHz or lower, and they're not Intel, which is the best and most reliable processor.
Six, it doubles as an E-book, you can read books on your iPaq with Microsoft Reader and download them from numerous websites, even a thesaurus and dictionary; the Palm doesn't have this feature and the Visor expansion is expensive and you can only choose from a selection of four books.
Seven, one of the most important factors in my buying the iPaq is the color screen; the resolution is the best out there, especially compared to the color Palm and Visor PDA's, which are expensive and have very low resolution. Not much of an improvement from a Game Boy.
I went through excruciating research on the other PDA's before I decided on the iPaq, visiting Casio, HP, Visor, Palm, and Compaq. The Palm and Visor I ruled out immediately after seeing the capability of the Pocket PC's. I looked at CNET, Epinions, and PDA Buzz, and went to my local Best Buy, CompUSA, and Circuit City. I saw that it got high praise from many electronics and technology magazines, such as Best of the Year from Popular Science.
It took me 2 weeks before my final decision. That was two weeks too late, into the middle of the Christmas shopping frenzy. Almost every retailer was out because of the popularity of the iPaq and on eBay, it cost around $600-$700. I finally snagged it at a Brandsmart USA, it was the last one.
A very useful feature is AvantGo, which is included. You can load your favorite web site onto your iPaq for viewing anywhere. Also, you can read the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USAToday, you can play Jeopardy from SonyStation, you can access Yahoo(with movies, news, sports, stocks, etc.), and thousands of other sites.
There are many games and lots of software that you can download for it, like Flight Simulator.
I am very happy with my iPaq, and I would suggest it to anyone. It's good for the music lover, disorganized person, businessman, etc.
The first thing that struck me was that the reset door was not closing, but rattled like a rattlesnake if you moved the unit. Research on the internet showed that this was a common flaw, but it could be fixed by bending the door with a small screwdriver.
Next I found out that dust had entered the display, and due to the construction of the backlighting, dust particles shine brightly and can only be removed by fishing them out with a long hair. Apparently this too is a common problem, since Compaq forgot to seal the display of the unit, so dust can enter between the display and the touchscreen foil. Compaq does exchange the iPAQ if there is dust in the display, but the replacement unit will have the exact same problems since this is caused by an engineering flaw. So don't bother sending it in until Compaq has a real fix.
The MP3 player proved to be pretty much unusable, because the amplifier is switched off and back on between tracks, causing a deafening popping noise on the headphones. Compaq has promised a firmware update to remedy this problem, but that keeps getting postponed every two weeks, the latest announcement is sometime next year. I won't hold my breath.
Using the unit for games is also all but impossible, because the joypad/buttons are somewhat limited by the hardware design.
Don't be fooled by the metal looking case; it's really just painted plastic, and the paint comes off easily. Just slide on one of the Expansion Packs regularly and see for yourself where the scratches develop.
By now I was subscribed to a forum and found out about a myriad of other problems, including that the symbols on the buttons rub off after a few weeks of using them. Compaq thinks this is normal, so my conclusion would be: don't use them. Great. My advice to Compaq: don't print on metal unless you're certain the paint will stick! The paint on my (plastic) Palm buttons stayed on for two years, and probably will stay on for another twenty.
Would I buy it again? Yes and no. The iPAQ was a great idea, it's currently the fastest Pocket PC around, and if it didn't have the quality problems it has, I'd buy it again. But for this price I expect a unit that works as reliably as my Palm did, that I can actually use daily and not just carry around and not use it to prevent it from becoming unusable.
Unfortunately the demand is currently so great that Compaq seems to be getting away with anything, as people don't care about the problems as long as they can get their hands on an iPAQ. Personally, if I were you, I'd wait a while until either Compaq gets things done right, or the competition comes up with a similar product which doesn't have the problems the iPAQ has.
If you're waiting for the iPAQ to become available again, stop waiting and be glad you didn't spend your money on this prototype that accidentally went into production, and spend your money on something else instead.
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