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I've had several Pocket PCs with the Del x50v & 51v being the most recent. However, other roms are becoming available which pull out it's potential. This is a solid device in that it has an incredible screen and about much ram memory as you could use plus it's one of the few devices out that offers SD & CF card slots (may seem unimportant but you can upgrade this to over 40GB of memory for a little over $100 and soon over 70GB). The only two draw back I have is that one of the buttons can't be reconfigured and the ROM is a bit weak. The battery life is very good. Without the new rom, I'd give it a four star, with it five.
I bought my iPAQ in May 2008. I will never buy another HP product and I intend to tell all of my friends about what has happened to me. Finally, HP escalated the issue to a higher priority and promised to have a Customer Service Agent contact me to resolve this problem.
I noticed that the touch screen was not very sensitive. I have never been contacted. I was excited when I bought this product, however things soon changed.
I gave them three phone numbers so they could reach me at any time. I contacted HP Customer Service and they said they would send a box to me that I could return the iPAQ for repairs; it never came. I contacted HP Customer Service two more times with the same result.
HP's CUSTOMER SERVICE IS NON EXISTANT. If you buy an HP product, you better hope that nothing is wrong with it.
Since the iPAQ 210 doesn't have an internal camera, attaching an external one to the SDIO port seems like a good idea. The convenience of this function was that if you wanted to make a quick voice memo, you'd pull out your iPAQ, push the voice record button, and the iPAQ would power on and start recording. I was disappointed to discover upon using the iPAQ 210 that the voice record button on the side of the device does not power on the unit as this button has on previous iPAQ models. But when the drivers and software are installed for the HP Photosmart Mobile Camera and the camera is inserted into the SDIO slot, instead of the camera application launching, I get the error message "a problem has occured with device.exe". This convenient feature is not available on the iPAQ 210. I hope this isn't a trend amongst Windows Mobile devices and I hope HP bring this feature back in their future iPAQ handheld releases.Another disappointment with the HP iPAQ 210 is that it doesn't work with the HP Photosmart Mobile Camera. That these two HP products, an iPAQ and an iPAQ accessory, cannot work together is a baffling situation. HP Tech Support's response was "we don't have newer drivers for that camera." They don't offer a newer camera either, so what choice is there.
I have been pleased with it so far. I recently purchased the IPAQ 210 and switched over from my Palm TX that I had been using for several years. The 210 has the latest Windows Mobile 6 operating system, which seems to be pretty stable and also very wifi aware. The available apps are good and it is very fast and responsive with an incredible 4" display. I would recommend it highly.
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