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Posted: Tuesday May 25th, 2004 23:05 |
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Got myself a new toy last week. A Ipaq, bargin at £180 brand new:-
I didn't realise at the time, how many cool things it does. As well as all the basic PDA things, it can play games (anybody remember Quake1???), I have also purchased the Sat Nav addon which is so cool, since it navigates with a 3D map and warns of speed cameras. Also, while it is in the car, I can listern to all my music and it displays the play list of the songs on the screen, which is so so cool.
But the biggest cool factor of all, is that it can play DVD's (well once compressed down and copied across). Heres a shot of 50cents P.I.M.P video:-
The quality of that picture doesn't really do it any justice, in real life the picture is nearly perfect. I seem to be getting a lot of people leaning over my shoulder at the moment on the train 
Also I have got hold of the software development kit, I hope to make some games for it. I have ported across a old version of my game I made in the past http://www.theoutpost.tk, but if anybody has any good ideas for a handheld game(something I am bad at) then I would be intrested in hearing them.
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Posted: Saturday June 12th, 2004 00:25 |
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| i must say i do like this. i am considering getting one for myself but may be slighlty cheaper. my friend bought his in the states for $50 but his is not colour screen. any advise for whn i am looking for one to buy?
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Posted: Saturday June 12th, 2004 09:22 |
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Well, Brand new you might be able to get cheaper models, maybe £20-£30 cheaper if you look around. The are pretty similar in functionality as well as long as you don't want to do Sat Nav and stuff like that.
Else you could try looking on Ebay, you could probably pick up some cheap ones for near a £100 I reckon. It all depends what you want to do with it. If you want to just store phone numbers, etc, get a really cheap one. Or if you want to play movies and stuff then it will cost you more.
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Posted: Saturday June 12th, 2004 10:32 |
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| hmmmmmmm like the sound of that toy I was going to get an ipod but seems like this toy does more. hmmmmmmmmmmm I gonna look on dealtime I never take chances with stuff like that buying second hand I am sure I can get a good deal on the net somewhere.
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Posted: Saturday June 12th, 2004 10:39 |
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| Yeah, it does much more, if you get a 4gb Microdisk Compact flash card, you have all the storage you really need. I doubt people really fill up there Ipods with 20gig of music.
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Posted: Saturday June 12th, 2004 13:03 |
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Been thinking about getting one of these for a while...what additions (if any) do they need to handle email (pick up and reply) on the move? Also what about handling files in Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint as attachments to messages?
Also have to admit I'm not on the iPod thing...I have a Creative Nomad jukebox (20GB) which is excellent for sound (so long as you buy decent headphones - those supplied are crap!) and portability...I have and listen to a lot of music so it's usually about three-quarters full...plus I have SoundBlaster Live/Audigy soundcards in my PCs at home so it seemed to make sense...
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Posted: Saturday June 12th, 2004 13:07 |
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| It has outlook built into it. To pick up mail on the move, you would either need a GPRS card, or a mobile phone with bluetooth and GPRS. I haven't tried attachments, but I believe they would work, since it does have a full(but basic) office suite.
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Posted: Saturday June 12th, 2004 13:14 |
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| Thanx for info. Will definitely look into this...
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Posted: Saturday June 12th, 2004 18:14 |
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| can they play music. if so it will make better sense me getting one than an ipod indeed
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Posted: Saturday June 12th, 2004 18:24 |
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Yep, here's 2 pictures, each with a different skin, 1 with a playlist and small fiddly buttons and another with huge buttons and text:-
Quality is a bit dodge, but you get the idea.
Also anybody remember the Lucas Arts games Sam n Max, Day of the tentacle, Monkey island...etc they all work on it to 
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Posted: Saturday June 12th, 2004 19:05 |
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i am defenitly getting one. hopefully before winter. plus than i can get route finder gsm etc for when i can drive
which is the best brand? do compaq do any?
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Posted: Saturday June 12th, 2004 19:07 |
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| Yep, I use TomTom, seems pretty good to me so far, hasn't got me lost
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Posted: Saturday June 12th, 2004 19:38 |
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| what make or brands do your reccomend ?
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Posted: Saturday June 12th, 2004 20:01 |
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The HP Ipaq 2210 (which is what I have) is pretty good. Its well priced, has bluetooth, and 2 memory expansion slots (most only have 1).
The HP ipaq 19xx series are cheaper but lack a few of the extra's which you probably need if you want to use Sat Nav.
Above that they start getting quite expensive, for not much more gain. They are maybe a little lighter and have a few extra gadgets such as WiFi and thumb print security, but thats about it.
As for other brands, Asus is meant to be quite good, and Dell one's are the cheapest I think, but I didn't look too much into them.
About the price, keep in mind that they only have about 20-30MB of storage space as standard, you will want to buy an extra memory card. I bought a 256 one for £40 (I will buy a bigger one in the near future), with just music, you could fit about 4 albums on the 256 card. And also a card reader for your pc, since transfering data through the Ipaq is dog slow.
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Posted: Tuesday June 15th, 2004 17:40 |
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i am definitly going to invest one,. i wonder if i could get my husband to get one as a anniversary present. i need to go buy some lingerie stuff lol
the reviews on ebuyer are all good. the only issue is with the side grips. there is even one person who said he was going to get a mp3 player and got the ipaq instead he is well impressed!
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Posted: Tuesday June 15th, 2004 18:06 |
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Yes I remember reading about the side grip issue. I don't know if this has been fixed now, but I haven't encountered it yet.
Oh and a few posts above, you asked if compaq make any. Compaq and HP merged a few years ago, so the HP Ipaq is a mixture of both company's technology's.
When you get it, let me know and I will post some links to some good software.
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Posted: Monday June 21st, 2004 19:48 |
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Yup, company i work for were generous enuf to give us Compaq Ipaqs, though to be honest only use it to schedule my appointments, make notes, give it to my 11 yr old to play with and strike up conversations with wild looking Brazilian hunnies.........
Just being serious.
Ipaq is great, seen foldaway keyboard?
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Posted: Monday June 21st, 2004 22:29 |
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| Yeah, those keyboards would sure be handy if you had to do a lot of typing. You should get some software and start watching movies etc....
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Posted: Tuesday June 22nd, 2004 07:13 |
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Hmm, but wouldnt I need to upgrade memory?
Did you know that software is available that enables the ipaq to double as a remote control ?
Also noticed @last year's Wimbledon that the umpires were using ipaqs, what for? No idea........
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Posted: Tuesday June 22nd, 2004 08:20 |
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| at this years wimbledon many peole not just empire will behanded pda's cant remember what for. but they seem useful for the event. they will be sending stuff via wi fi
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Posted: Tuesday June 22nd, 2004 21:39 |
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It depends, have you already got a media card for it, they are very cheap now days if not.
A music video takes upa bout 8-9meg, so you could fit a few on just the internal memory.
Yes, my one came with NEVO software, which is really cool, because it lets you define all the different rooms and each device that is in that room.
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Posted: Tuesday June 22nd, 2004 21:52 |
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| Wow sounds interesting i might treat myself to one. Last edited on Tuesday June 22nd, 2004 21:52 by shellyanne
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Posted: Tuesday June 22nd, 2004 21:55 |
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Cool, I think HP should reward me, for getting so many people intrested LOL.
Like I said before, anybody need any techy questions answered, let me know.
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Posted: Wednesday June 23rd, 2004 07:49 |
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| Can I get mine to do the dishes for me?
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Posted: Wednesday June 23rd, 2004 19:10 |
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| Nope afraid not. I tried to get it to comunicate with the dishwasher, but it just sat their looking at me blankly while flashing its little blue light.
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Posted: Thursday June 24th, 2004 06:21 |
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Ha!
Nuthing beats a ripe sense of humour!!
Seriously though ipaq's great cos people are always oppressed when you bring it out (the ipaq that is) on the tube and stuff, they be looking like 'what's that' and 'he's just a showoff'. Whatever, chicks just love it, one asked me 2 buy her one, we're still discussing the matter!
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Posted: Thursday June 24th, 2004 19:11 |
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Ooooh yeah, I know what you are talking about. I am sitting/standing there on the tube watching a video and I start seeing all these shadows on the screen, I look up and about 4 people suddenly jump around and try to pretend they wern't looking and are not impressed. Ha Ha.
Yeah and I'm feeling the girls are likeing them to. Nothing turns a girl more on, than a guy with more computing power in this trouser pocket than the whole apollo space mission 
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