HPiPAQ hx2795 Pocket PC

I bought this unit as replacement for my wife's broken/worn out unit that finally failed after five years of heavy use. This unit arrived nicely packed in a small box with the charging/USB chord; nothing else. The unit powered up quickly and her files loaded without any trouble. My wife uses this PDA continuously throughout the day for her calender, appointments and task mgr. It is indispensable as far as she is concerned. This unit appears to be even faster than her last unit, therefore so good so far. I am hoping that she gets the same type of life out of this one as she did the last; time will tell.

The iPAQ device itself had decent speed and hardware when it was new (when I purchased it). But choosing to go with Windows mobile was a huge mistake, it was supposed to sync with Outlook... it didn't. At least not properly. It also did not function with MS Office as expected. For the record I am somewhat of a techno geek, so it is not a case of user error. The bottom line is there are much better products out there.

This is not the way to goin todays smart phone world.I would not purchase this product again if given the opportunity to redo things.

IT worked great. I would still be using today if my new phone did not give me realtime activesync not just plug-in activesync.

This is a little more I say business orientated device but buyer beware if you are not computer savy to the type of habdhelds don't buyer are not user friendly like apple I recconmed used is a better price but also beware that all charge cords are included

The fingerprint reader makes this product safe and secure from prying eyes. The vendor I bought this from is the best I have ever dealt with. Toner Warehouse Direct ! !

I purchased item to replace a Sony Clie PDA. Being accustomed to the Clie, I found this PDA very confusing. It does noy have the features I expected from a PDA. I was unable to obtain an instruction manual. Up to this moment the unit is completely useless to me.

I received a Ipaq HX2795 for Christmas from my Wife. It was a very nice and unexpected present.I have an older Jornada 568 with Stow-away Keyboard, Ethernet CF card, WLAN CF Card, 56K Modem CF Card, Car DC adapter, USB Cradle, USB stand-alone cable, AC adaptor and Spare Li-Po Battery.I have Outlook 2002 installed on my XP machine as required to Sync Contacts with the 568. It was a shortcoming on the part of HP and Microsoft to require an additional duplication of services to junk up the OS with Outlook, when Outlook Express ships with the XP OS. But,I had the Hard Drive space to install it, and it wasn't a requirement that I make it my default email program and bombard my Contact list with an accumulation of nearly 15 years of email addresses.HP now further compounds this shortcoming by using the latest/greatest Active Sync Microsoft application, that not only requires you install Outlook, but now requires it to be the default email program before the Contacts can be sent to and from the IPAQ 2795.Also, the contact information MUST reside in the Contact folder; not a subfolder off of the Contact tree that would facilitate separation of Business contacts from your Email ones.Looking inside the embedded OS, there is the shortcut "poutlook.exe Contacts" which points to the application "poutlook" with the argument "Contacts". Being embedded, there is no way to edit it to point to a subfolder under Contacts that might hold a group of contacts devoted to your PDA(s). With the abundance of "picklist" structures used by Microsoft, there is no excuse to hardcode such a limitation. I am sure someone at Gates Central is still laughing about this timebomb.....So, Now, I have had to make Outlook my default Email program, import everything from Outlook Express, and still retain Outlook Express for my Newsgroup access program; as Outlook doesn't do Usenet.HP support suggest I search the Web for 3rd party software to give flexibility to the contact list to be synchronized with the Ipaq HX2795. I consider Outlook to be 3rd party in that it doesn't ship with the OS. If it won't do the job properly, why should I take the official HP Customer Service suggestion to go to a 3rd party source to correct their shortcomings in accepting the flawed Microsoft application(s).The Wireless B that is built in is almost as good as the Multimedia Sony Clie J37 that I also have with built-in wireless hardware; but no where as good as the CF WLAN card that I use in the Jornada 568. There are constant error messages that the connection has been lost, while the activity icon shows through-put from the wireless connection.I can't comment on the Bluetooth. I would think it would be a positive addition; if I only had a Bluetooth device in my stable of favored geek devices. However, Bluetooth development seems to be slow at best.Like the Jornada 568, the IPAQ 2795 has to have an external AC adaptor connected to enable "USB Charging". Why mislead customers with the promise of USB charging, when it requires a further tether to a power source? I know that the other devices that operate and charge off of the USB port don't require an additional power source to meet their claims of being USB powered.I can only see this as a carry-over from the Compaq Consumer side of the aqquisition. They muddied the water of the Compaq Deskpro fame with the Presario line of disposable PCs, just as HP seems to be using the IPAQ line to discredit the Jornada name.A real shame for the industry to allow this to happen without being litigated out of existence for misleading the public.So, Now I have a $500.00 handheld that doesn't quite live up to the usefulness of the older one that may bring $75.00 on eBay; only because I have the extra accessory items to go with it (which, by the way, won't work with the IPAQ).It may be possible to use the Ethernet CF card on the IPAQ. I haven't looked for drivers to know either way. I suppose I could be gonzo enough to disable the onboard WLAN resources on the IPAQ and try to use the WLAN CF Card. I just don't think I need to further punish myself by trying to get them to workI would recommend this to a first-time buyer who had an extra PC to devote to it as a Active Sync host. For anyone else, I would advise them to beware, and do their homework before purchasing.When you put $500.00 into a PDA, you don't want to have to invent the wheel for Microsoft, and this combo requires you to do just that.HP seems content to pass the problem resolution off on the 3rd party developers, as they and Microsoft just don't have a clue.