http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/
But this iPAQ 210 isn't that unique. The Dell X50v had similar specs years ago. But it is nice for someone who prefers a separate PDA and small phone.]]>Feb 18th 2008 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/
1. Bigger screen than smartphones
2. More power than smartphones
3. More storage space than smartphones
4. Cheaper price than smartphones.
5. No "just gimme yer soul fer a coupl'a years" agreement.
6. No crippling of features or design dictations by bloodsucking telecommunications companies.

This device will pair with any bluetooth phone for your bigscreen web browsing experience. For people like me, this is great, because my cell phone was a freebie and I pay a pittance for a small number of minutes per month. I have no interest in selling bodily fluids in order to pay for unlimited monthly data, since I already get that for free from wi-fi in the majority of places I go.
Compare the price of this to a smartphone with the same specs with no service agreement. Wait, there isn't one, and if there was, I guarantee you it'd be over a thousand bucks.

Besides, a lot of places, such as the military base where half my town works, don't allow any device with a cellular transceiver. Damned annoying to have to leave your appointments, email, ebooks, and bookmarks in your car every day during work.]]>Feb 18th 2008 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 19th 2008 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/
Though the 4400 optional battery is pretty amazing, though...]]>Feb 18th 2008 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEDvCklrNs0 (no, I did not make that video).]]>Feb 18th 2008 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/
It's not discontinued.]]>Feb 19th 2008 1:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Quite nice.]]>Feb 18th 2008 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/
Screw Palm. They are dead and its about damn time.]]>Feb 18th 2008 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/
I use a Palm Lifedrive every day, because it suits my needs as a long battery-lifed ebook reader and encyclopedia. I've bought two of them in fact, one of which I gave to a friend. I've owned WM devices, like my late HX4700. I can tell you right now that Palm OS 5.whocares.blahblah.7 is positively ancient, and it does what it was made to do well, but it simply isn't adequate for a desktop-level mobile experience anymore.

Palm OS garnet was released in 2002. That was six years ago. Six years a hell of a run for a mobile OS, but it's over now.]]>Feb 18th 2008 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/These kind of old fashioned PDAs & cell phones won't live in the near future... So take care of them.
Long live iPhone!]]>Feb 18th 2008 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/
Screw you people who think everything should be a cellphone :-P

I think I will get one of these when my LifeDrive dies..]]>Feb 18th 2008 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/
I see what you mean, everything is pretty much converged now, I'm converged (Mogul) & I don't see myself going back..

But actually you'd be surprised at how many are still in the market, there are still those
who aren't looking to tie down to a cellphone contract, wants something better than an iTouch & doesn't like PDA mixed with their phone...
Plus there's not a phone of that price with specs of that caliber.

HP is pretty much a savior to those still in the Standalone market.
]]>Feb 18th 2008 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.expansys.com/p.aspx?i=131918]]>Feb 18th 2008 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/ -Not for sale in the USA, which made it a slightly risky purchase
-Harder to get accessories (Boxwave was good, though)
-Discontinued
-Fujitsu-Siemens getting out of PDA business, so no updates]]>Feb 18th 2008 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Please do yourself a favor, stay clear of HP iPaqs and WM.]]>Feb 18th 2008 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/
NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH MY PREVIOUS HPS, THERE SO RELIABLE]]>Feb 18th 2008 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 18th 2008 10:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/Feb 19th 2008 12:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/
That aside, the iPaq´s are solid. Better build quality than HTC mobiles.]]>Feb 19th 2008 1:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/card that would allow any pda to be turned into a celluar phone.

after disecting my old nokia phone, the part that does all the transceivering is just a chip and i bet a chip which probably cost $1 to make.

So really why is that all pda + phone combos = very expensive or why is that there is no card expansion thingy to turn a pda into a cellphone.
]]>Feb 19th 2008 6:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/you're right. my ipaq 1930 is still good and works fine. only problem is it still runs on the old windows ce. too bad i couldn't update. and the connector on the charger is a piece of crap. but the actual unit itself is my most reliable gadget as of yet.]]>Feb 22nd 2008 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/i was thinking the same thing. hehe. much cheaper than that epson and less bulky. still a bit expensive though. i wish the ipod touch/iphone had atleast a sd slot. ]]>Feb 22nd 2008 5:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/ipaq-210-finally-ships-gets-reviewed/

BTW you can download a phone program and transfer service plan, like you would an independent phone to the pda w/o the hassle of paying for kb from bloodsuckers like sprint and verizon.]]>Mar 14th 2008 12:59AM