HP iPAQ 111 Classic Handheld (FA979AA#ABA) (110 Series) by HP
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Digital camera reviews of HP iPAQ 111 Classic Handheld (FA979AA#ABA) (110 Series)
Digital camera Review: Best PDA I've tried
Summary: 5 Stars
I received the iPAQ 111 two weeks ago. I will be leading a team of engineering students on a humanitarian trip to rural Africa next month. Students will be performing a variety of tasks, and the Task and Calendar features are exactly what I need. We will be spending thousands of dollars in cash (no credit card accessibility) and we can keep a running account and projection of expenses vs. budget using Excel. Each purchase can be entered at the time it occurs. The final report can be written in sections during the trip using Word. Best of all, the Transcriber feature is fantastic. It recognizes my handwriting very accurately, and I can enter information almost as fast on the iPAQ as on my PC keyboard. I did turn off button 4 so that I wouldn't activate it with my little finger when I'm transcribing. The Wi-Fi works well. My contacts synchronized seamlessly once I downloaded WMDC from Microsoft (I have Vista on my PC). So far battery life is very good, but I'm not playing music. I have tried Palm devices in stores and they do not come close to matching the iPAQ for convenience and the features that I need.Digital camera Review: Best PDA ever
Summary: 5 Stars
Stand-alone PDAs aren't so popular these days, but this is exactly what I was looking for when I lost my old iPaq 2495. I've had a number of PDAs from different companies -- Palm, Dell, and HP (both Jornada and iPaq). The iPaq 110 is in every way the best PDA yet.
I expected the unit to be better -- smaller, brighter display, better back light, more memory, faster processor -- and I was not disappointed in any respect. This is the first iPaq stand-alone PDA with WM6 (Microsoft Windows Mobile 6), which is a nice upgrade. The mapping of the four main buttons is more logical. WiFi works better. HP adds to WM6 a very nice implementation of Bluetooth, which works very well.
I was surprised at how much the unit is improved ergonomically. The power switch is perfectly placed for easy, one-hand operation and a minimum chance of accidentally turning the unit on. I was concerned that the iPaq 111 doesn't have a cover like the 2495 does. I needed the 2495's cover because without it, I was always accidentally turning the unit on. But with the power switch on the side, I have never accidentally turned my iPaq 111 on. The record button is the easiest to use of any of the PDAs I have ever owned. All the buttons, including the D-pad, work very well, with a good tactile feedback and easy operation.
All my previous PDAs have been a pain to charge. They all had special connectors for charging. Sometimes they required special charging voltages. The iPaq 111 charges through the USB port, which uses a standard USB - miniUSB cable. The charger is a wall-wart unit that provides 5V. AC charging is faster than charging through a USB port. I suppose that's because the AC charger can deliver more power. Battery life is excellent. I generally charge the unit every day. But I can easily go 2 or 3 days between charging; for example if I travel and forget my USB cable.
The iPaq 111 also takes good advantage of the new high-speed SD memory cards. I got an 8-Gig 6x speed card. It has worked flawlessly in the iPaq. It used to be that moving files from my PC to my PDA was painfully slow. Now it is so fast that I stopped using my USB thumb drive. If I have a few files to copy, I just copy them through ActiveSynch. If I have a lot of files, I plug the SD card into my computer's SD reader.
If you want a stand-alone PDA and you don't want to pay for a large VGA (640 x 480) screen, this is the best unit out there.
Digital camera Review: Better than 110
Summary: 5 Stars
In every sense of the word, this is much better. My 110 broke so I ordered another one but ended up with a 111 and I couldn't be happier. It's more responsive and the bluetooth works so much better, I can easily get my files off my mac with bluetooth alone. The only cons I can think of is that the battery has to be charged a lot and 111 doesn't go well with Adobe pdf reader. But to me those are minor problems compared to how much better the 111 works as compared to the 110.Digital camera Review: Better than the previous IPAQ model
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the few PDAs without integrated cellphone. The new model is slimer, lighter and Windows Mobile 6.0 is much better in terms of apps and sync.Digital camera Review: Big fan of the unit, not a fan of WM 6.0
Summary: 5 Stars
Likes:
The unit in itself is great. Very reliable, has great battery life, powerful wireless capabilities, miniusb to usb 2.0 connection, a sharp and bright screen (even in high brightness environments) and a decent microphone and rear speaker, and a 3.5 standard headphone jack to listen to music or whatever you want. Takes a bit of know-how to set up to sync via cable or wirelesly on a windows network environment (email on exchange server 2003 and 2005 works nicely) but as i said, if you know how, you can have fun with it. Its bluetooth capabilities are also very good, for example if not within WLAN coverage, you can connect to your bluetooth enabled cellphone's UMTS (with whatever you can get, from GPRS to the upcoming 4G) and get the net that way. Hopefully you can do better than EDGE with your cellphone because otherwise it's very slow. It's also nice to share pictures, ringtones and files with your cellphone or other bluetooth devices. I was able to hook it up to my new imac to browse files, so that's always a bonus.
Should'ves:
Could've had more ROM and internal disk space, but that can be solved with a simple SD or SDHC upgrade. I got a class 6 8gb sdhc card and it's fine. The headphone situation also lacks a little power in the volume department but i guess it's fine if caring for your eardrums is something you look forward to.
The on-screen keyboard is small, you must type with the stylus on key at a time, and it takes some getting used to if you want to type on it. If you're looking to work a lot on this, consider getting a compact bluetooth keyboard.
Dislikes:
The windows mobile still leaves much to be desired from. Not much of an improvement over the previous versions of WM. The notes application disappeared after 2 days of use, had to hard boot the whole thing. It crashes sometimes (shouldn't crash at all) and it takes a massive amount of memory to run, leaving little space for applications. Still, WM 6.0 has a decent wireless manager and it's very adaptable and fast, so it's not a complete loss. There's already tons of WM 6.0 native apps you can get off the web for free, and lots more that are relatively inexpensive. To mention a few of the more popular ones Google maps works like a charm on it, skype is a little unstable and the yahoo platform is lousy.
If you have the skill, there's nothing stopping you from getting a linux system running on this thing.