Hewlett Packard iPAQ h2210 Pocket PC

Pros: valuable addition to my personal inventory. powerful, enduring, useful, adaptable, lightweight.
Cons: rubber side grips do not last, need to find a high quality case.

Product Update October 2006 I have now decided to sell my iPAQ as it has had a problem with memory cards. It has had difficulties with SD cards, where the SD cards cannot be read by the iPAQ, and after inserting the SD card into the iPAQ, the SD ...

Pros: Compact, expandable, affordable
Cons: Wish it had 128MB program memory.

I've been an Ipaq user almost from Day One when the first StrongARM processor machines rolled out. The advantages then were much faster performance with the 206MHz StrongARM than other offerings. Along the way I upgraded to a newer model, basically identi ...

Pros: Small, fast, dual expansion slot, lightweight, great for professionals, affordable
Cons: Battery life

What's in the box ? Ordered my h2210 from the HP online store. Had to wait for ages (2 weeks pda-less to be exact, and that felt like ages) for the unit to arrive from Singapore. The parcel finally arrived at my office and I quickly tore the box apart ...

Pros: Reliable easy to use and lots of features
Cons: No Wi-Fi

Introduction. In a world where size or lack of size is important, consumers are always demanding smaller more versatile products. The ipaq is a combination of compact size and powerful computing power allowing you to remain connected to the digital ...

Pros: Smart, stylish and small: a pleasure to use Superb screen: bright and rich colours
Cons: Bundled software somewhat stingy Low capacity (900mAh)

My previous PDA (also an HP) was giving problems with screen reading and I needed to upgrade to something faster and brighter. Reading both online and magazine reviews pointed me to the H2210 as being in the right price bracket and offering the sort of performance I sought.

Comparing the H2210 with other possibilities in the local store showed this PDA matched up to everything the reviewers stated. It sits very neatly in one's hand and the pointer is also well-designed (odd to say that for a prodder, but it's true!)

In terms of function, no problems: it was very fast indeed. The screen refresh is fast, background processing is fast - everything (including getting on working terms with the machine) was fast.

I'd recommend this as amongst the best of the crop.

My only criticism was that the battery was of limited capacity - I've not been embarrassed by it yet, but there's always that feeling that 9--mAh isn't brilliant on a long train trip or air flight.

HP were a bit mean on software compared to my previous package, too!

Pros: small,has everything you need on it, plays mp3s, secure digital and compact flash card slots
Cons: battery life could be better

it has a great design everything great i have one nothing bad goes wrong on it great little machine! the battery life is different because there is a setting that you can change to how many hours you want the machine to operate before charging. so for example you set it for 24 hours you have to charge it every 24 hours