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HP (Hewlett-Packard) iPAQ hx4705 Pocket PC

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• Reviewed by: rbus

  Updated: 12-10-05

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:60 Days

  Strengths: Full VGA screen, choice of portrait or landscape view, built-in wi-fi and bluetooth

  Weaknesses: Touchpad vs rocker button for navigation, 90-day warranty

  Overall Evaluation: Display really looks good and landscape photos are a lot larger and easier to view in landscape mode. Wi-fi works well even with WEP turned on and broadcast mode turned off (i.e, wi-fi system does not broadcast its name). Only drawback is the 90-day warranty, an insult to have such a short period of protection for a device this expensive.

• Reviewed by: Linda_Hemmes

  Updated: 11-20-05

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:4 Weeks

  Strengths: Screen resolution & color, memory, battery life, installed programs

  Weaknesses: Availability of accessories - not nearly as available as Palm products.

  Overall Evaluation: My first PDA was a Compaq iPAQ and I loved it. Following its demise, I moved to a competitor and was not nearly as impressed with the performance or the product quality. When it came time to replace that unit, I moved back to the iPAQ and I very happy that I did. It is a quality unit in almost every way.

• Reviewed by: zimbricd

  Updated: 11-07-05

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:30 Days

  Strengths: Fast processor and the screen is big and bright.

  Weaknesses: Internal memory is a little light, but has CF and SD slots. Accessories are not real easy to find just yet.

  Overall Evaluation: This is a great unit with great features. The CF and SD slots make storing a variety of info a snap. The screen is big and bright and can be reconfigured lanscape or portrait. Battery seems to last a long time, so far. I looked at the Dell Axiom which has a litle more base memory, but my history with HP made this an easy decesion for me.

• Reviewed by: natakho

  Updated: 04-13-05

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:2 Weeks

  Strengths: great clear image

  Weaknesses: didn't find any yet

  Overall Evaluation: Overall it is a great PDA. It was a little hard to use the touch pad, but I have gotten used to it now. I think it may be because this is my first PDA and I wasn't used to it. But I use it all the time now for both work and entertainment (have tons of music downloaded already). Love this PDA!

• Reviewed by: Funkytown

  Updated: 02-22-05

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:7 Days

  Strengths: The screen is incredibly clear, even in bright daylight...best I've seen. Both compact flash and SD memory slots built-in... no bulky add-on necessary. Both Wi-Fi AND Bluetooth wireless!!!

  Weaknesses: Just a touch on the heavy side.

  Overall Evaluation: I've had a number of pocket pc's... from the palm pilot to the HP jornada to the iPAQ, and this is by far the best one out there. I was a bit concerned over negative reviews I had read concerning the touch pad, but I have found it quite easy to use and love it. It allows you to actually be able to use it with it's protective cover on. Besides, there's always the stylus for when you prefer to use it. The wireless compatibility is great... and it makes it easy by walking you through setting it up to communicate with other devises. It is a bit heavier than other PDAs, but that's what you get for having a machine that does it all!

• Reviewed by: drbrdr

  Updated: 02-21-05

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:60 Days

  Strengths: fast processing; fast and flexible IR transmissioin (supports upto 4mbps); large screen with beautiful display; quick easy conversion from portrait (vertical) screen display to landscape (horizontal)

  Weaknesses: touch pad takes practice; cursor mode easiest to use.

  Overall Evaluation: Using the hx4705 increases the enjoyment of my work day. It is fast (most responses are instantaneous or nearly so) and reliable (at most 1 soft reset per day--and it has never crashed at a "critical" moment), and the display produces text, colors and images faithfully.) I primarily use Pocket Outlook, Pocket Word, and Pocket Excel programs to process large Task lists and Contact lists (hundreds of items of each) and complex spread sheets; manipulation of these lists and spreadsheets is almost always instantaneous. There is also plenty of memory: I currently have 6 full-size reference books installed, and I plan to install more. It's capability for fast IR (4mbps) communication makes ActiveSync'ing and backing up quick and unencumbering. (However, when I transmit to a mobile printer in Fast IR that is supposed to accept Fast IR, occasionally text is garbled--I was told that this "must be" a problem with the HP Mobile Print software, but I'm not sure exactly what the problem is). Because the device has both CF and SD slots, I can (and did) install a 1GB CF card containing a 65,000-page textbook in the CF slot, and I can install an HP camera in the SD slot simultaneously. Because the hx4705 has LEAP, WiFI, 802.11b, USB, IR and Bluetooth capability, you can connect to just about any network or device you want to. If you have a wide spreadsheet display or picture, just press a button and the display quickly rotates from the standard vertical image to a wider horizontal image. The standard battery is long-lasting for me, too: with frequent text entry, data look-up, and printing throughout a 12-hour day, I get a low-battery warning only at the very end of the day (and only on unusually busy days).Overall, I think the hx4705 is a superb (though expensive) PDA, and I would recommend it to anyone who plans to use a pda in a demanding, versatile manner.

• Reviewed by: chkuei

  Updated: 01-12-05

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:1 Days

  Strengths: Sharp LCD, Nice recording and playback

  Weaknesses: Not found yet

  Overall Evaluation: It is the nice machine and I just switch from Sony Palm OS to Windows PPC because lots of GPS map systems support PPC (My Sony Palm PDA is not supported). Also, I will use hx4705 as a voice recorder and MP3 player on its dual expansion lots, the CF card and the SD card.

• Reviewed by: pjstreng

  Updated: 11-24-04

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:30 Days

  Strengths: Build quality, display, performance

  Weaknesses: Hardware is ahead of the available software. Favorite apps (Mapopolis for example) don't function properly.

  Overall Evaluation: Much has already been written about how good this PDA is; and much has been written about how hard the touch pad is to use.Initially, I didn't like the touchpad either. However, after using the unit for a month and getting used to the touchpad, I now find it to be superior to the old style input pad.

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