Just how many Handheld PC devices remain in use out there? Who has the most devices? What is the most popular device? What is the most obscure?

Interesting questions, but questions that are not easy to answer through traditional means such as the forum. It got us thinking however, and as such we have decided to pilot a new site service that is designed to try and help us to answer some of those questions.

The initial version of HPC:Factor's "Handheld PC Census" is designed to test the community response to us collecting information on your devices. We are bundling the service as a member server for all registered forum members to provide us with details of their general Handheld PC hardware as per the established devices outlined in the HPC:Factor Devices & Specification system.

At the current time, registered users can add their devices via their forum control panel "your Settings", and the system will automatically generate a device list on the member profile page. This information will help us to gather initial information on device quantity; however, we are very interested in hearing your views as to whether we should seek to collect more information through this service.

For example, we could collect serial numbers to provide members with a 'security repository' in the event of theft, we could collect information on what you paid for each device so as to help generate average device prices or we could collect local information to gain a picture of the international device use of the different hardware.
Let us know what you think in the discussion, and in the mean time log-in and head to "Your Settings" in the forum to tell us about your Handheld PC collection.

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