New Communicators from Kyocera and HP

An anonymous reader submits: "Here are two links to articles about the new HP iPaqs and Kyocera's new Communicator .... Both are pretty sweet pieces of hardware."

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400 MHz

[colmore]

I've heard that the move from 200 to 400 MHz on these devices has barely changed noticable speed, while adding a good $200 to the pricetag.

I'll wait for reviews to cement the decision, but I'll probably be going with an older, not that much slower, 200 MHz device.

Re:400 MHz

[Anonymous Coward]

The word appears to be although the Xscale chip runs at 400 MHz when running code for the previous generation Arm chip, it runs it about as fast as a 206 MHz ARM. Multimedia is said to actually perform poorer than with the previous generation of PocketPCs.

Microsoft says they will only support the Arm ver. 4 code base, Intel says you really ought to be compiling for Arm ver. 5. So we the users, will suffer.

I speculate that Microsoft is hoping that pads kill pocketPCs so they can kill PocketPC development and support a single Windows code base.

Re:other kyocera products

[mesocyclone]

I am a longtime owner of the Kyocera QCP-6035 and I find it a surprisingly lousy product compared to what it could be. The integration of the Palm PDA and the phone is almost non-existent. I want an integrated device, not just two devices in one package (although I have it because the latter is still better than the same two devices in two packages).

I would be much more careful next time, as Kyocera has not demonstrated to me the ability to create a good user interface that integrates the features properly.

Maybe I'm just missing something or didn't RTFM enough times, but just calling someone in the Palm phone book is a real pain