ok, my opinion now
i got the intermec after the J728 and the sigmarion III and the nec 900c. and it is really on par with them in some things or better! in other things it isn't.
regarding speed it is absolutely OK, screen refresh is quite fast, whats more it is consistently fast. the same cannot be said of the sig3.
(sig3's screen refresh is also fast but not always.
)
the only situation where sig3 wins with faster screen refresh is remote desktop.
IMO the camera is of a very bad quality. i dont have the patch with which i can take pics in vga resolution, and qvga honestly isnt too good
(where's the patch?!
). sorry but i'm used to my digital camera
(thats no high quality stuff either, 3.2 MP, but it is good enough for me
). still i want to try ms portrait with it HEHE.
the screen is really cool! very bright, i'm using it at the second lowest brightness and it is good enough.
much brighter than sig3 for example... and of course TFT, i still get sometimes surprised that i see the exact same pics in IE4 as on my PC's tft monitor
(and on the sig3 but somehow the intermec is a little better
).
i love the tablet mode! only thing troubling me is lack of keyboard protection, i didnt get the original keyboard protection thingie, in search of one...
dont worry about battery life!! one of the most important things about a hpc for me is battery life. when i got the intermec it came with a battery that couldnt last more than 3-4 hrs with a lot of wifi
(screen brightness 2-3
). and always dropped to 7% from 23% suddenly... BUT then i acquired three other intermecs
(sold two
), and their batteries were much better than mine. i kept the batt that seemed to be in the best condition out of all three hehe, it lasts 5 hours with *continuous* wlan, so it should be at least 8 without.
(? i dont know, i use wifi too often
) thats the same as a jornada 720 std 1500 mAh battery! so i'm content with battery life finally. if your battery isnt as good as this, have the cells replaced with 2400's and you'll be amazed
(7 hours of wifi at least, i'm sure
). i'll do that sometime later to the first battery.
(it is 1800 mAh originally.
)
the only thing letting the 6651 down is its OS and even more so, its CPU. while the cpu is fast enough
(not kidding, this is amazing for a 129 Mhz processor!!! i agree it is on par with j72x speed wise
), but the cpu type *is* limiting for someone like me who had always been an ARM only user
(strongarm, xscale
). i had to ditch some nice ARM only programs and find MIPS alternatives... but it is OK after a night's searching for apps lol. i still cannot run a few apps i'd like to have
(hungarian map software
) but i can live with that. they are just nice to have stuff. every important stuff is available for mips.
hpc2000 is good, and will remain good for a couple more years, but i forgot what the system stability & IE4 were like
(i didnt use my j728 for a while for some reasons - repairing it etc etc
), ive been spoiled by IE 5.5 and IE 6.0 and stability of cenet. still i'm OK with IE4 but of course sometimes need to use NF3.0.
and dont mind the few resets, i never lost data with them.
all in all i hope this didnt sound too bad. if someone was never a cenet & ARM user the intermec should be perfect. it is still perfect for me as i did get every *really* important apps to run on it. so i dont mind it so much.
all in all the hardware is unbeatable though not jornada sized
(my preference
) but i still get alot of use out of it.
software wise it is ok too. but i feel it is a little let down by the mips.
) here and the intermec is of better build quality
of course it is much smaller than the svga mobilepro's or many other vga / svga hpc's. and this is amazing. !!
