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Summary: Just a couple of complaints. . .
Review: ***THIS REVIEW CONTAIN QUALITY INFORMATION***Some complaints: (1) Battery life is POOR (only last in terms of hours instead of days for other PDAs), especially if one uses a CF device with the included sleeve. Problem is CF memory is a MUST if you want to listen to MP3s. (2) Apparently Compaq still has not corrected the problem with dust getting into the screen. The dust reflect light from the backlit apparatus and is quite visible. A minor annoyance but one nevertheless. I recommend keeping the stylus silo occupied so there is less of a chance that dust will creep in. (You get 2 styli with the package so you can keep one in the silo at all time.) (3) The high-gloss silver finish of the iPaq is very bad with fingerprints, but if you keep the CF sleeve on all the time this problem would be minimized. Productive recommendations: (1) Don't get coerced into shelling out [the $] getting a CF modem; they are completely unnecessary. The only thing that modems are good for is emailing in real-time. Browsing regular html paged with the iPaq is neither practical or productive. (2) Make sure you get an AvantGo account. This makes an iPaq really worthwhile. (3) Make sure you install ActiveSync 3.3 and set up a relationship between your PC and your iPaq so that you can do email and access the internet (in conjunction with AvantGo). (4) Make sure you find MS Transcriber on the ActiveSync CD and install that puppy. This writing recognition program is AMAZING! (Transcriber is an different program from the writing recognition program in th iPaq, so you need to install it separately.) (5) Finally DO look through the iPaq Tour CD, there are some VALUABLE applications hidden in there that you can install. Enjoy this wonderful lil machine!
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Summary: The best PDA yet (replaces MP3 Player/Cell Phone/etc.)
Review: The Compaq iPAQ 3600 series (specially 3630, 3650 and 3635) are really great units. I use my iPAQ as a replacement for several devices. As I usually have a 1GB IBM Microdrive in the iPAQ it works as the best MP3 Player yet (I have some 700MB of MP3 files continuously available) and still plenty of room in the MD and RAM. I also use a Lucent Orinoco for wireless connection, which allows me to chek my emails wherever I am at my place. The comprehensive software package (Inbox/PocketIE, PocketWord, PocketExcel, etc.) allows gerat functionality out of the box (you can add many shareware/freeware to increase that further (I recommend Resco's Utility PAckage for Zip compression/Decompression, etc.). For travelling I am about to get a stowaway keyboard which will allow me to conveniently leave my notebook at home and conveniently check emails and eventual webpages. My iPAQ was one of the very best purchases I made last year. As one of the very few PocketPCs to allow the use of cheap & standard PCMCIA cards such as:
- Any NE2000 compliant Networking Card, which usually costs as little as $20
- Some PCMCIA Modems (including the 3Com Cell Modem, which may be used along with your cell phone or landline)
- Wireless NIC, such as the pretty standard Lucent/Agere Wavelan/Orinoco
- IBM Microdrive up to 1GB (using this CF card with the PCMCIA adapter allows for better battery usage)
- Kingston 2GB PCMCIA drive.
- Much more... I am anxiously awaiting the time I manage to get a CyNET Inc. CyPAQ (which is a dual PCMCIA slot for the iPAQ, along with their Wireless Cell/Modem, which allows one to use the iPAQ as a cell phone!). I already got rid of my former MP3 Player and in the future I'll get rid of my Cell Phone too. All will converge into a single unit - my iPAQ! We recently installed Linux in one iPAQ and using teh very same PCMCIA cards we could run applications such as vic for video streaming, etc. It was quite impressive! Last but not least I installed a PersonalJava JVM in my iPAQ and I can run any PersonalJava compliant code, such as my own H263 Video Decoder called jStreaming (http://jStreaming.com). That runs smoothly in my iPAQ. I am conficent that if you are thinking about getting this unit you'll not be disapointed. Do think about getting a Microdrive to go along with it tough.
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Summary: Satisfied consumer
Review: After doing some research, I felt the iPAQ 3135 offered the most bang for the buck. I enjoyed using my Palm, but made the leap to iPAQ. I wasn't sure if it was the correct choice. But after recieving the iPAQ 3135, I found that it surpassed my expectations. Installation of the syn software was a breeze. Exchanging MS Excel and Word files from my desktop computer posed no difficulties. My only regret is that I can't find another 3135 for my wife!
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Summary: Bye bye Palm
Review: After using a Palm for over two years, I was given a IPAQ to use. I never really like Windows CE much, but after using it for a few days, I LOVE IT! I can't wait till I can upgrade the OS to 2002 next month.
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Summary: Best Mobile Storage
Review: Best value for the money. With CF Jacket, it is my mobile office. I keep lots of office documents on CF. With Avantgo, I read latest news on go. With e-book reader, I enjoy books on go. With microsoft maps and street, I have handy pocket maps of entire city on hand. Only problem, 16 MB RAM not enough for lots of programs. Install new program on CF. Will not stream MP3 songs from CF. Donot have option to change default sound note recording to CF.
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Summary: This is the coolest gadget on the Planet!!!
Review: Can't say enought about the Ipaq. I've had it for just over a week and already I'm reading Ebooks, Surfing the web and Wireless at work. It a do-it-all/have-it-all system. remember, its not a PDA!, its a true POCKET PC!!! You Gotta get it to believe it.
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Summary: Compaq iPAQ 3135
Review: compaq ipaq 3135, monochrome little brother of it's color version - but in this case little brother has the same 206 mhz processor as it's "bigger" brother - although it's a great electronic little date book/alarm/ todo list /ebook - the 20x+ more powerful processor than the Palm brand PDA also plays a mean game of chess - the best two professional chess programs available for yhe Ipaq are chessgenius [...] and Pocket Fritz [...]... after a hard day in the office, I usually battle my Ipaq in a chess game or two on the ride home on the train... well worth the investment ....
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Summary: Not bad
Review: Eye-catching, very futuristic look. But it is too fancy. I seldomly play games or listen to mp3. The battery life is horrible....
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Summary: this is a good product
Review: first of all I encourage anyone to buy this product ive had it for a month now and its been working great. the only draw back is that the screen cant be seen at certain angles clearly. I am a student and i use this to write my papers on and take notes it keeps me organized i love it. all of the programs on here help alot and with cradle i print out my projects or finish them up at home. this has been a real time saver. i recomend this to anyone that wants a better way to be organized. especially students
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Summary: Best bang for the buck!
Review: For my purposes, this was a near perfect PDA solution. Many will say that using a monochrome PDA seems to be a bit on the 'Flintstonian' side. Color, has a couple of advantages. It *is* easier to read and you can do some extra stuff like watch movies and look at pictures. The screen on the 3135 is adequate for viewing for extended periods. It's not first class, but then again, you didn't *pay* for first class. Last I heard, first class is about 600 or so for the Ipaq 3670. :-) On the upside of things, the battery life will be at least a couple of hours more than you would usually get. It's not a HUGE difference, since they already use hi-cap Li Polymer batteries. It can easily play MP3's and read e-books, which are other reasons why I got it. Plus, it is very fast--this was just fast enough for me to consider. Since it's using an 206Mhz Intel StrongARM processor, there is hardly any wait in opening up programs. It's not perfect, however. Personally, I like the palm pilot's harder screen over the softer LCD the Ipaq 3135 uses. I helped protect the screen by using a piece of transparancy film cut to fit and slipped under the lip of the screen to protect that, so it's not much of an issue. Also, I don't like how they skimped with RAM. I'm not sure why they didn't go for the whole 32 megs, since pocket pc programs can really eat up a lot of space. I remedied that with an additional 128 meg flash card (55 bux delivered--newegg.com). However, that leads me to my NEXT problem--the size of the compact flash jacket. It will turn your svelte, slim Ipaq into a huge, lumbering ogre that you can hardly get your hands around. OK, not THAT bad, but you get the idea. What really ticks me off is that when you open it up (don't try this at home), it's a lot of wasted space. They could have safely done away with about half the plastic and had a sturdy CF jacket. (On a side note, you can get your CF jacket modified by a George Mosquera (sp?) or Whittney LuBean (sp?) to take away much of that excess plastic and modify your CF case to a MUCH smaller size, but it will cost you $70-120. I forgot the URL--you go look it up!) ANYHOO, you have to get a special case to hold your Ipaq and jacket since the one it came with is too small. Which leads me to my NEXT problem--the case ... Plus, it is really hard to find a case that is just big enough to fit the Ipaq and jacket and hook onto your belt. That, or I'm just really really picky. OK, that is my impressions of the Ipaq 3135. It is a great PDA for the price, but be prepared to pay for it with some lost functionality.
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