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HP iPAQ hx2750 Pocket PC Review

Posted by timothy on from the but-can-it-run-linux dept.

Lisa Gade writes "The hx2000 line replaces the successful but aging iPAQ 2215 as HP's mid-sized Pocket PC with dual slots and lots of power. We at pdabuyersguide.com take an in-depth look at the top-of-the-line hx2750, which is the fastest Pocket PC to date. It has a 624MHz processor, 128 megs of RAM, dual slots, WiFi, Bluetooth and a biometric fingerprint scanner for security. Sporting a new ergonomic design, the device comes with a transparent flip cover everyone is sure to love. If you have a need for speed and a fat wallet, this might be the PDA for you (if you can live with Windows rather than Linux)!" Speaking of Windows on small devices, there's coverage -- with screenshots -- originally from neowin.com, but now removed from that site, of the upcoming Windows Mobile 2005 at mobileread.com and also at davesipaq.com.

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  1. ROM decieving by cgoody · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Im getting tired of companies listing the ROM as if that was the number accessable. Just like your hard drive(only worse) the number indicated is not completley accessable.

  2. WTF? by SmokeHalo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sporting a new ergonomic design, the device comes with a transparent flip cover everyone is sure to love.

    This statement is not news. It's an advertisement. Editors, please edit.

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  3. Re:Boycotting Chinese Products: HP iPaq by Squatchman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If America relied on it's own industry for things like this, prices for these items would be ten times what they are now.

    Red China may not treat its workers with the most respect, but I'll be damned if they can't put out a reasonably priced product. What's wrong with that?

  4. It's all about the cash... by gandell · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I like what I've seen of this unit, but for $650, I'd expect a VGA screen.

    I'm thinking the Dell Axim X50v is a better buy. $450 right now at Dell, with VGA screen, dual wireless, dual memory (SD & CF), 624mhz, 64 RAM, 128 ROM, and 16mb vid memory a la Intel.
    Still, biometrics are awfully sweet...

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  5. Never mind the "extras", I'll take a sleeved IPAQ by sethstorm · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The reason the IPAQs took off so well was the expandability - the sleeves meant you could put anything on to them, whether it was PCMCIA or dedicated GPRS. When they took those out, you might as well have a rebranded Axim - cheap in every wrong sense. When they bring PCMCIA back via sleeves, then we can start thinking of the hp series as of the line, not the current top-of-the line sleeved 5455 (and I wont have to go to Intrinsyc to spec a pcmcia dual slot into their models).

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  6. Re:iPAQ Support by dJCL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I worked consumer support at Compaq when HP moved in... boy was that entertaining! Everything is billable, even when it's covered by the warranty!

    And then they laid us off, and did not even replace us with people in India. If you increase the hold time, people just hang up and solve it elsewhere...

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