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HP's rumored touchscreen handset has showed up in the for of the iPaq Data Communicator, a pop-out QWERTY Windows Mobile handset, with a solid but predictable spec sheet. You'll find a full range of 3G capabilities, Wi-Fi, a-GPS, a 3.1MP camera with autofocus and flash all behind a 2.8in, 320 x 240 screen, controlled with a 5-way "optical navigation" key. It measures in at the same respectable 1.7cm thickness as the T-Mobile G1 — a little thinner than its clear competitor, the HTC Touch Pro. For the old-fashioned types, you can find most of the same guts in the Voice Communicator, a sleek, half-QWERTY candybar phone More »
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From rumor to fact, we've watched as HP has revived their iPaq line. The first two units will be coming out in just two days, on October 8th. Featuring Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, identical 624mHz processors and WM6 Pro, the cheaper 110 will run $299 while its older brother the 210 will cost $399. More »
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Those leaked pics and specs for a new line of HP iPAQs turned out to be spot on, U.S. model numbers aside. Led by the formidably spec'd iPAQ 900 Business Messenger smartphone, the lineup consists of another smartphone (600 Business Navigator, the 900's QWERTY-less little bro), two "classic handhelds," (the 100 and 200, "classic" meaning Wi-Fi, no cellular) and a jazzed-up GPS unit (300 Travel Companion). Press release laying it all out after the jump. More »
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Rumblings of HP's return to the hand held world are looking more solid with a complete lineup of very legitimate looking iPAQs. We'll run you through it wham-bam-thank-you-ma'm style. Hit the jump and let's do this thing. More »
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HP's IPAQ brand is back from the dead with this slim phone that looks nothing like the whale-ish IPAQ PDAs of yesteryear. The Windows mobile 6 phone has additions by HP that let it read emails and other text sources, and let you do your best Piccard impressions to open apps ("Computer! Make it SO".) The phone has EDGE data, and WiFi. Laptopmag's Sarah Anderson, got an early look, and had mixed reactions. More »
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Along with its shiny new HP iPAQ hw6920 it launched today, Cingular also rolled out its version of the TeleNav GPS navigation service, barking out turn-by-turn directions without requiring you to buy a separate receiver. Yep, these phones have a satellite receiver built-in. More »
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HP pals up with Tom Tom, and the result is the iPAQ rx5900 Travel Companion ($599), bringing together well-designed hardware with a friendly user interface. Laptop Magazine liked the way it feels like a full-fledged GPS device and a first-rate pocket PC, too, with neither seeming to be an afterthought. More »
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HP, we've always loved you for your brains. But we're glad you've gone ahead and made a mobile gadget that doesn't look like its meant for the corporate goon-squad. What we have here is a design-y Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC device, with WiFi and Bluetooth for net-and-more connectivity. Like most full featured Windows Mobile devices, you can use it with VOIP apps like Skype. I didn't sight much more info out in the wild, so I'm not sure about availability. But unless there's a cult of HP brewing up fark'd iPAQs, we doubt this is a fake photo or a false rumor.–Brian Lam More »
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Looks like the HTC Star Trek launch date for Cingular was pretty much on target. The $100 rebate available for the phone seems to be there as well. More »
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Stop the presses, a non-iPod music player dock is on the loose. Designed for the HP iPAQ rw6818/6828, this dock does most everything you'd expect a dock to do, like charge your player and play back your tunes with a set of stereo speakers. Even though it's designed with the iPAQ in mind, a line-in lets you connect other music players as well; if you still own a CD player, you're in luck. More »
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HP vice president Chi-Teik See said HP won't support 3G in its smartphones until at least next year. Despite 3G's comparitively fast 384kbps bandwidth and the numerous 3G handsets already available, Chin-Teik noted that 3G occupies just 3% of the cellphone space, calling it a nascent market. He also mentioned that 3G s subscription and hardware costs are prohibitively high. Because of these market conditions, HP's iPAQ rw6800 and iPAQ hw6900 don't include 3G support. More »
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HP just announced their latest iPAQ series for the Asian market, the HP rw6800 Multimedia Messenger, running Windows Mobile 5.0. More »
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HP introduced its iPAQ hw6900 Mobile Messenger, running Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 and claiming to be the first smartphone with four radios: quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth. Also included is a 1.3 megapixel camera. A key feature of this unit is its ability to play along with Microsoft's Messaging and Security Feature Pack included with Windows Mobile 5.0, which pushes e-mail, calendar, tasks and contacts. For that GPS receiver inside, North Americans will get Microsoft Pocket Streets 2006, while Europeans receive Tom-Tom Navigator 5 and one free city map. HP says the hw6900 will be available in North America this summer, and everywhere else this spring. HP says pricing will vary by region. More »
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Looks like HP is popping out a new iPaq, the hw6900 with Windows Mobile 5.0, Wi-Fi, and a mini SD slot. It's essentially the hw6515 sans full-sized SD card slot. All we've got so far is some sort of manual for the hw6910. More »
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So it looks like the PDA is truly and verily dead. The venerable DavesiPaq, home of all things PDA, is now MobilityToday, which is focusing on old men wearing jackets and other mobile technology. Anyway, it's interesting to see the old guard move on past the buzzwords of yore. More »
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Lots of handheld news today. The iPaq rx1950 looks like a stunted little thing but it's quite powerful and runs Windows Mobile 5.0. The 3.5-inch TFT screen is another plus but the 300Mhz processor places this firmly in the lower stratum of handheld majesty. Styling, however, is just about perfect and Windows Mobile 5.0 apparently kicks butt. More »
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I am so far out of the PDA loop that it's nice to see that, in a way, I'm not missing much. PDAs are following the same path they've always taken—shadow the laptop market as much as possible and dumb things down a bit for on-the-road apps. Amazingly, however, the hx2795 comes with a 624Mhz processor which is just about as fast as you could please. Built-in WiFi also adds a bit of sass and the design, a far cry from the iPaqs of old, is bordering on minimalist. More »
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Whoa. According to this forum poster on this Spanish PocketPC forum, there are apparently several new HP iPaq models in sight; namely, the rx1900 models: rx1950 and rx1955. My Spanish is a little rusty, but according to Mr. Google Translator, these are the specs of the rumored iPaq: More »
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We know you are sick of hearing about this thing, but this one will be quick, I promise. The lab monkeys over at PC Magazine have gotten a hold of one of these beauties and have offered up a miniature preview/review. They sum it up by saying this PDA is the cat s pajamas in GPS and e-mail, but seems to have some software compatibility issues at the moment. They also mention that the speaker, screen size and camera are all lacking. Prices are looking at $400 or so and that is even with the soul-binding contract. More »
]]> http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=117926&view=rss&microfeed=true DavesiPaq clues us in that the HP iPAQ hw6515 has made an appearance on Microsoft's Windows Mobile site, which probably means it's going to be released soon. The page lists full specifications of the hw6515, like the 64 MB SDRAM, 3-inch transflective TFT display, SD/MMC card slot, integrated quad band, EDGE support, Bluetooth, and integrated GPS. We already know it's hitting Cingular in the U.S., so now it's just a matter of time before this thing drops. More »
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Why wait fifteen to twenty-five years for Windows Vista when you can have a cool external laptop display—flogged by MS since last year as the latest in rocking UI—right now. MAKE magazine repurposed an old iPaq to become a super-ninja external display with all the color trimmings. Then, by using Konfabulator, AKA Apple Dashboard for Windows, they created a unique looking UI. Unfortunately, then they had to go ruin things by taping the thing to a Toshiba, which isn't terribly good looking. I was hoping for some proper Dremelling. More »
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The sheer amount of crap they can fit inside a little sliver of plastic is truly mind-boggling. The Spectec MiniSD card is a full-bore WiFi card in something the size of one of my dandruff flakes and those geeks at Daves iPaq have gotten it up and working. Dave writes: More »
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The buzz around the PDA community is that the Sandisk SD wifi adapter is really hit and miss and generally resulted in failure when working with iPAQs. Possibly because of this, Sandisk has decided to discontinue the adapter with another release rumored for later this year. Some guys over at the Daves iPAQ forums have confirmed that the older discontinued adapter does work and are also offering assistance and tips getting the WiFi setup. Good news for me! That kid in Starbucks watching live furry porn on the iPAQ? Yeah, it'll be me. More »
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