Trusted Reviews takes a gander at the HP iPaq rx7815, a middle-range Pocket PC that HP is positioning as a “mobile media” device, and they seem to come away somewhat impressed, although to be honest it’s sort of a hard review to read (in the ‘figure out how they feel’ sense not the ‘bad English’ sense). As for features, the rx3715 is strong enough, with integrated Bluetooth and Wi-Fi (b) and even a decent camera (which is to say, better than VGA), but I think maybe the mezzo-mezzo tone of the review – and here is where I go out a limb, perhaps – is indicative not of HP’s failings with this particular iPaq, but just a general malaise that is clouding our feelings about PDAs. We know what they do, they do it fairly well, but nobody is figuring out how to really make them any more useful.
To HP’s credit, it does look like they are really trying to develop some new software that does new, interesting things. It looks like they’re sort of succeeding.
Read – HP iPAQ rx3715 – Pocket PC [TrustedReviews]
