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What is your relationship with your H/PC?Handheld PC News Posted 10 years ago | Community | 19 comments | Author: Chris Tilley  We have a new home page poll this morning. This new poll seeks to understand from you the relationship that you maintain between yourself and your H/PC. Are Handheld PC's still being used as day-to-day PDA devices or have people largely given up with PIM synchronisation functionality in light of lacklustre support for newer Windows and Outlook releases? We know that many in the community are collectors, so when answering consider your general relationship with any H/PC or Windows CE Core device taken as a whole over an average week. As always, the results are real time and are avaialble on the home page.
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I had a hard time choosing between "Everyday PDA" and "Everyday laptop alternative", because it's both for me. I finally chose PDA because I probably spend more time using those functions, but I also use HPCs to take meeting notes, prep lectures, read PDFs, etc., so it's a laptop replacement, too.
Yeah, I kinda wish I could've chosen more than one, because I also look for ways to make newer CE devices in particular more and more functional so that they can serve as notebook alternatives.
See PDA as a companion device that you use in amongst your Windows/Mac PC may be through ActiveSync. Laptop alternative would be where you don't use it as an extension of a main PC but (try to use it as) as a primary PC device.
I just use HPCs as MIDs, so I chose occasional laptop alternative. But it's only a matter of time before I find and procure a better MID, and then my HPCs will become one of the last three options.
Actually I've never used the PIM functions on my HPCs. I think of them as small laptops, even if a bit limited in scope. With my discovery of ethernet adapters, I'm still doing practical and experimental web browsing, saving pictures, and saving articles into Pocket Word. Also I save the occasional text-centric webpage when caching allows it. As unsupported as these old machines are nowadays, it's still possible to read the latest news, get the weather, and do research on them. They're also good for image viewing.
I went for occasional PDA as I find that they cannot match what I can do on a laptop, and that I am not always interested in them.
we need another poll choice. nevemind. I clued in to shelf-drawer-museum and chose that.
they are now dust collectors. selling them for their value is absurd, so I keep them. I'd use them for pim had I not bagged my LG IQ/HTC phones. (so far MS myphone is working well for pim sync.) I still use mine for PIM management. I've had every kind of "smart phone" you can think of and none of them matched my experiences with HP/C's. Mostly due to the keyboard.
Of course, there have been a couple of exceptions. Most notably the Nokia Communicator range. However, at the moment I have a "dumb phone" combined with my palmtop computer. Sometimes I'll opt to go with just my e90, but not when I have to write a lot. :) So far, I'm the sole "I've sold them all" vote. My mobilepro 900 with cmonex's great rom was simply too slow to be useful. I keep checking back to see if anyone has found a good alternative in this form factor, which I love. I would love to see a linux-based, instant-on mobile-pro-sized machine. In the meantime, I'm running crunchbang on an LG X110. It's a little larger than I'd like, but that's life, right?
I guess I should add that I'm using an Ipaq 110 for pim. I have a Psion NetPad (CE 4.2) and I use it almost all the time as note taker, or organizing some things on pocket Excel. Its not the 'latest' technology, but I know it can even survive under extreme conditions.
My 720 with its 2GB compactFlash has been my memory and archive for years and continues to be an invauable reliable unversal every day tool.
I use my 7 inch Chinese netbook even more than my laptop
7 Inch netbook ---> Work Regular Laptop ---> Play I absolutly can't concentrate on my regular laptop because of the games, videos, movies, etc. I use my HPC every day to take notes at school and schedule tests and quizzes, and it has proved an invaluable tool. I also sometimes play around with the Flight Simulator on it. My MobilePro 790 is my workhorse though. My other HPCs are just for my growing collection.
I use my Aero 8000 when I need to get some writing done - it's not connected to the internet, and can do little else, which really helps me to focus. In the vein of the Kindle, it can do one thing really well. The instant on / off is also great when I'm trying to get writing done when I'm commuting / travelling with work.
I'm a TEFL teacher in Argentina so resourses and money are limited here, so my HP Jornada 728 came in handy. I use it to look up Translations from English to Spanish and vice versa. I have HPC Translate that I downloaded from www.phatware.com (with license fee) and it's helped me alot. The program even has the capacity to add words to the dictionay. And I use the calendar function a lot too.
I have really liked my MP900 for taking notes and internet browsing in class the only problem I have with it is taht it forgets the touchscreen calibraton everytime I suspend it nothing else is lost other thn that I like it.
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