Guest Drift3r Posted July 17, 2003 Report Posted July 17, 2003 If you have an SPV Smartphone, do you think it's worth buying an iPaq as well? What extra benefits does it give you? Are the apps better? I don't really need one, its more of a gadget thing :)
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted July 17, 2003 Report Posted July 17, 2003 I have a DELL Axim as well, I use it mainly for Excel and Word. Appart from that the SPV does everything else I need :)
Guest vijay555 Posted July 17, 2003 Report Posted July 17, 2003 Although you can do a fair bit with the IPAQ, i found that the SPV fits in my pocket, holds my Pocket Outlook, good number of games, films at a push, keyboard if desparate, and it doesn't >really:( IPAQ for movies is great tho, bigger screen. Good games, emulators, nice Today screen.. really up to you what you're going to use each device for, o' course... V
Guest morpheus2702 Posted July 17, 2003 Report Posted July 17, 2003 Purely depends on what your needs are and how deep your pockets are. Put it this way... when I had a Clie I really, REALLY missed my old Ipaq. Now I have the SPV, I hardly ever miss it.
Guest xanadu Posted July 17, 2003 Report Posted July 17, 2003 I have Ipaq and SPV. I use Ipaq for making notes and excel spreadsheets. Also I use Ipaq for GPS navigation and route planning.
Guest @ngel Posted July 17, 2003 Report Posted July 17, 2003 :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: I have not an Ipaq nor a SPV... :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
Guest jenneth Posted July 18, 2003 Report Posted July 18, 2003 I have an SPV and iPAQ (and also a Palm Zire 71). I use my SPV for phone calls and text messages (obviously) email, MSN Messenger and occasional surfing on PIE. I use my iPAQ for: reading eBooks, playing videos, viewing pictures, listening to music, viewing and editing Word documents and html pages, looking up words in a dictionary and/or thesaurus, reading AvantGo, heavy PIM usage, keeping track of my usernames, passwords, registration codes and bank accounts, taking quick handwritten notes with reminders and keeping track of my finances (or lack thereof). These are things I do regularly, there is other stuff on my iPAQ that I don't use as regularly, such as Pocket Bible, TreNotes, WorldMate, TomeRaider etc. I know most of that stuff can be done on an SPV, but some of it is cumbersome on the smaller non-touch screen - and since I have an iPAQ, why not make things easier on myself and do those activities on it?
Guest vijay555 Posted July 18, 2003 Report Posted July 18, 2003 I wish i was "vj on a shoestring", with a plasma tv, audi tt and some blingin rocks. Jenneth, why exactly are you on a shoestring, with all that "brightware", as my bentley dealer calls it!? :) Yeah, i forgot about reading books. Loved my ipaq for reading books, using starbook or something. Thunderhawk was/is a great browser. We could do with a landscape view book reader on smartphone, but i don't think even that would be as comfortable as ipaq. Re GPS: is it possible for the phone to somehow be programmed to display what Mobile Transmitter/Cell it's using, so that we could do something like MapAMobile, and map our location on a map stored locally on the phone? Something like this used to be available for the Nokia's i think (when connected to pc thru data cable) V
Guest jenneth Posted July 19, 2003 Report Posted July 19, 2003 brightware? i'm on a shoestring because i'm a struggling uni student/freelance writer who spends entirely too much on gadgets i can't afford.
Guest vijay555 Posted July 19, 2003 Report Posted July 19, 2003 :) keep it up jenneth! love the commentary on your website btw... Drift3r: if you want ipaq+spv, why not just get xda? V
Guest dinoalbert Posted July 19, 2003 Report Posted July 19, 2003 I use my PocketPC for editing Excel and Word documents, read e-books and do other tasks which are easier and more comfortable to do on a bigger, touch-screen. Some games are even better to play on a PocketPC than on a phone's screen. Also, when on budget, instead of using my phone's GPRS, I use my PocketPC, using dial-up CF modem, to surf the net, download stuffs for my Smartphone, save it in the SD card to be used by my Smartphone later (My Smarphone and PocketPC share SD cards from time to time). And since PocketPCs have larger memory, I download my mails with its Pocket Inbox. I never use my Smartphone's Pocket Inbox for my pop3 mails. cheers...
Guest doyle_am Posted July 19, 2003 Report Posted July 19, 2003 I've got an Ipaq as well - used to use it loads until I got an SPV but now it sits in a drawer gathering dust. Another of my top investments!
Guest Lifestream Posted July 20, 2003 Report Posted July 20, 2003 I always got my Ipaq with me. Mostly for games, music, video, surfing the web and showing pictures to family and friends with. So now I got an T610 with bluetooth instead that is the perfect ipaq partner :) Now I´m waiting for a phone with Smartphone 2003 and bluetooth so I can use my ipaq and HBH-60 with it. Also hape to see 3G in it... I´m aiming at buying one early next year.
Guest davidhorn Posted July 20, 2003 Report Posted July 20, 2003 Realistically, you might be better off with a Pocket PC phone edition. Personally, I have an SPV and an iPAQ 1910. (Most beautiful screen, ever.) Visit www.pocketgamer.org plug>
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