HP iPAQ RX1955: The 2005 Windows Pocket PC Experience
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Date: 2022-04-14
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9aracna
I had the HTC 8125 from through Cingular. Never really knew if it was a PDA or smartphone to be honest, but I personally always considered it a smartphone for everything it did.
It may have been the same operating system, and I think was the same year? But could also make calls and had best of all, had a slide-out keyboard, making Microsoft Office very usable and I did all of my assignments in middle and high school on it, since it had wireless printing and I could just show up to class and print it.
Plus, this was the age that phones could only hold 20 to 60 texts before making you manually delete them or auto-deleting if you were lucky. So in this case, you could hold 10s of thousands of texts as long as you had the storage space.
My only issue with it was that it used SD Mini instead of standard SD, not a big issue, was just harder to get after a couple years. I used it as my main phone until 2014. Would still love to go back to it to be honest
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I had the HTC 8125 from through Cingular. Never really knew if it was a PDA or smartphone to be honest, but I personally always considered it a smartphone for everything it did.
It may have been the same operating system, and I think was the same year? But could also make calls and had best of all, had a slide-out keyboard, making Microsoft Office very usable and I did all of my assignments in middle and high school on it, since it had wireless printing and I could just show up to class and print it.
Plus, this was the age that phones could only hold 20 to 60 texts before making you manually delete them or auto-deleting if you were lucky. So in this case, you could hold 10s of thousands of texts as long as you had the storage space.
My only issue with it was that it used SD Mini instead of standard SD, not a big issue, was just harder to get after a couple years. I used it as my main phone until 2014. Would still love to go back to it to be honest
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Alexandre
That was an HP PDA that introduced me into programming. And I think that i owe it the fact that it's still my passion and became my job.
In my case, it was an HP Jornada 545 in 2000. I was around 13/14yo and i wanted really hard my own laptop computer.
But these things were really expensive, especially for a teenager. So after saving years of Christmas and birthday gifts money, I bought that PDA.
At first, i used it mostly for MP3 and games (pocket Doom. Pocket Quake. Leo's Flight simulator.
After some time, i accidentally found that opening an html page with -Pocket Word- displayed a funny looking text known as HTML. and that I could edit it.
That made me learn HTML then JavaScript, PHP. then C/C++.
I still have the PDA, and I occasionally play with it. Just to remind me where it started. and the fact that it's already been 20yrs.
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That was an HP PDA that introduced me into programming. And I think that i owe it the fact that it's still my passion and became my job.
In my case, it was an HP Jornada 545 in 2000. I was around 13/14yo and i wanted really hard my own laptop computer.
But these things were really expensive, especially for a teenager. So after saving years of Christmas and birthday gifts money, I bought that PDA.
At first, i used it mostly for MP3 and games (pocket Doom. Pocket Quake. Leo's Flight simulator.
After some time, i accidentally found that opening an html page with -Pocket Word- displayed a funny looking text known as HTML. and that I could edit it.
That made me learn HTML then JavaScript, PHP. then C/C++.
I still have the PDA, and I occasionally play with it. Just to remind me where it started. and the fact that it's already been 20yrs.
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Dmitrii
Thanks for the review of the Windows Mobile. I was working 5 years as a Windows Mobile developer. This device is really not a gaming console, true, but as a book reader, it was nice, and the screen is a sort of TFT, that is visible even in direct sunlight, as I remember. Working with files was good, much better than on Palm PDAs, and still better than now on iPhones, he-he. But my dream that time was Psion 5MX, by the way, maybe it's time to buy it now for a review as well, I will check eBay; )
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Thanks for the review of the Windows Mobile. I was working 5 years as a Windows Mobile developer. This device is really not a gaming console, true, but as a book reader, it was nice, and the screen is a sort of TFT, that is visible even in direct sunlight, as I remember. Working with files was good, much better than on Palm PDAs, and still better than now on iPhones, he-he. But my dream that time was Psion 5MX, by the way, maybe it's time to buy it now for a review as well, I will check eBay; )
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PointLineBox
This takes me back! I switched from a Palm OS Sony Clie to a Dell PPC around the same time. It was definitely a promising bit of hardware but ultimately fell short because it wasn't as mature a productivity tool as the other platforms and didn't make up for it with its wider range of functions like game emulation (at least for me. I would have been better off just upgrading to one of the new color palms until I got my first BlackBerry Perl in 2008. Now that was an awesome mobile device.
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This takes me back! I switched from a Palm OS Sony Clie to a Dell PPC around the same time. It was definitely a promising bit of hardware but ultimately fell short because it wasn't as mature a productivity tool as the other platforms and didn't make up for it with its wider range of functions like game emulation (at least for me. I would have been better off just upgrading to one of the new color palms until I got my first BlackBerry Perl in 2008. Now that was an awesome mobile device.
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Chiel
Microsoft and HP REALLY had NO clue what they where sitting on. A smartphone was literally just a GSM module away, but alas they got blinded by -Is only of interest to Enterprise- even though I as a teenager owned a IPAQ RX1950 and ofcourse i loaded it with Popcap titles and other PPC games. They even had TABLET styled x86 computers, but no. Only for enterprise.
And they where shocked when the public who didn't even know Palm and PPC existed thought Apple -Invented- this kind of device.
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Microsoft and HP REALLY had NO clue what they where sitting on. A smartphone was literally just a GSM module away, but alas they got blinded by -Is only of interest to Enterprise- even though I as a teenager owned a IPAQ RX1950 and ofcourse i loaded it with Popcap titles and other PPC games. They even had TABLET styled x86 computers, but no. Only for enterprise.
And they where shocked when the public who didn't even know Palm and PPC existed thought Apple -Invented- this kind of device.
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Tyr
I'm a fey years late to this party but I just found my first PDA from 2004 as new old stock on ebay. The UK's O2 XDA IIi (HTC Alpine! I used it to take all my notes at university using the handwriting recognition in Word. It worked very well and the 2003 SE features of Word were superior to that on WM5. WM5 lost the ability to draw in Word and Excel. It was a real downgrade when I got my XDA Mini (HTC Wizard. That did have longer battery life and EDGE support!
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I'm a fey years late to this party but I just found my first PDA from 2004 as new old stock on ebay. The UK's O2 XDA IIi (HTC Alpine! I used it to take all my notes at university using the handwriting recognition in Word. It worked very well and the 2003 SE features of Word were superior to that on WM5. WM5 lost the ability to draw in Word and Excel. It was a real downgrade when I got my XDA Mini (HTC Wizard. That did have longer battery life and EDGE support!
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krimson
Ahhh. good times. My dad owned one of these, I would always borrow it from him to play the colored bubble pop game and lose the stylus lol. My mind would've been blowed if it had sims city of other games. It drove me crazy since I loved miniatures and seeing the little windows interface it ran on always made me feel like I was holding the most state of the art tech, I was about 5-6 years old back then.
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Ahhh. good times. My dad owned one of these, I would always borrow it from him to play the colored bubble pop game and lose the stylus lol. My mind would've been blowed if it had sims city of other games. It drove me crazy since I loved miniatures and seeing the little windows interface it ran on always made me feel like I was holding the most state of the art tech, I was about 5-6 years old back then.
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Quinn
I was hit with a similar school situation. I had to use my Ubuntu laptop at school because I was transitioning into college level classes and they wanted me to code html5. There was no way to code any of it on the school provided laptops, so I got an IDE on Linux and promptly finished my course. I also snagged a couple of Linux games and even Minecraft (this was when Minecraft just started existing)
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I was hit with a similar school situation. I had to use my Ubuntu laptop at school because I was transitioning into college level classes and they wanted me to code html5. There was no way to code any of it on the school provided laptops, so I got an IDE on Linux and promptly finished my course. I also snagged a couple of Linux games and even Minecraft (this was when Minecraft just started existing)
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Jek
I very much dislike how smart phones never adopted the -push to toggle orientation- button. A button to lock the option to automatically rotate is overcomplicated nonsense, but what isn't these days? Sometimes humans lay on their sides, though I guess thats enough of an edge case for modern designers to safely ignore
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I very much dislike how smart phones never adopted the -push to toggle orientation- button. A button to lock the option to automatically rotate is overcomplicated nonsense, but what isn't these days? Sometimes humans lay on their sides, though I guess thats enough of an edge case for modern designers to safely ignore
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fanjoy
I had a tungsten e2. I got it on the internet, but I had an issue getting something to load. I messaged hp's chat, they said my device didn't have internet capabilities. I told them I was messaging them from the device, and how I did it. They were at a loss, then they said they had never seen my problem before.
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I had a tungsten e2. I got it on the internet, but I had an issue getting something to load. I messaged hp's chat, they said my device didn't have internet capabilities. I told them I was messaging them from the device, and how I did it. They were at a loss, then they said they had never seen my problem before.
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