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Post by Hofmeister on Mar 20, 2017 12:55:16 GMT
I've been sorting through my old tech toy chest. Old phones, various OO date laptops and their power supplies have been going in the bin. I am loathe to dump old tech, and finger it lovingly, looking at ways to bring it up to date, "it might be useful" of course it never is. So in the bin it goes, along with old drives, obsolete memory modules, crap graphic cards and 10 NICs. BUT I found my HP IPAQ 4700 pocket pc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPAQAt some stage I had upgraded it with an unofficial and unsupported side load of the last version of Windows Mobile 2003 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile_2003I charged it up, powered it up, and it sprung into life. I cant get it to connect to my current home wifi set up, tho it will connect to next doors BT openzone. It used to sit in a cradle in my car in 2002 running Tom Tom for windows mobile. Someone somewhere on the weB claims to have Linux running on one, but its just vapourware. My hand keeps hovering with it over the bin, but I cant, I just CANT! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 13:04:47 GMT
I've still got my iPAQ somewhere, I saw it just the other day. I can't remember model numbers though - perhaps 5555??
I loved it, but it was never that satisfactory. I dallied with a QTEK Pocket PC for a while, but when I changed to one of the original Blackberries I never looked back. The blue one with the wheel on the side.
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Post by Rob on Mar 20, 2017 22:11:57 GMT
I still have an HP IPAQ too. Bought to run sat nav back in early 2004. Because the car (Mondeo) had a heated windscreen I played safe and got a Bluetooth GPS receiver so it could be sited at the rear parcel shelf if it was necessary (it wasn't). I also have a Psion Series 5 - still works as well. Someone on a website recently said a reworking of the Series 5 would be good (not sure)... and then three days later a kickstarter is linked: www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/27/the_psions_is_back_meet_gemini/ |
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Post by crankcase on Mar 21, 2017 15:09:27 GMT
Just reached three feet to the right and picked up my IPAQ h4100. Used to play some sort of bubble game thing on it, and run a satnav too. Great little gadget. Can I be bothered to try and charge it now? Hmmm...kettle on...
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Post by WDB on Mar 21, 2017 15:30:49 GMT
1. You have three feet?
2. It takes all of them to pick this thing up?
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Post by crankcase on Mar 21, 2017 15:36:13 GMT
Don't talk to me about feet. Yesterday I found an old poem I'd hacked together, and thought I check to see if it was iambic pentameter or what. I soon discovered that not only was it an octameter, it was blinking trochaic, not even iambic. Just me and Poe, then.
Feet. Pah.
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Post by WDB on Mar 21, 2017 15:46:22 GMT
Good of you to re-spondee.
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Post by crankcase on Mar 21, 2017 15:50:12 GMT
 Hmm. This could turn into spectacular thread drift, and nobody would like that. So I'll refrain. |
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Post by Humph on Mar 21, 2017 15:59:23 GMT
Oh we would like it. Drift away !
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Post by crankcase on Mar 21, 2017 16:07:16 GMT
Very clever, Mr Humph!
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Post by Humph on Mar 21, 2017 17:30:23 GMT
No, really feel absolute free, got to be infinitely preferable to all the waxing lyrical about Sinclair C5s or whatever it is they're talking about up there...
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Post by Hofmeister on Mar 23, 2017 20:35:40 GMT
Just reached three feet to the right and picked up my IPAQ h4100. Used to play some sort of bubble game thing on it, and run a satnav too. Great little gadget. Can I be bothered to try and charge it now? Hmmm...kettle on... Bubble breaker. After much fiddling I decided that was the only worthy, useful and entertaining thing on it. So I have downloaded bubble breaker for the Moto G4 and the ipaq has taken another step nearer the bin. |
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Post by Rob on Mar 23, 2017 22:49:05 GMT
So my old iPAQ was heavier than my current phone and had as smaller screen (albeit 3x2 type ratio). Also wider and thicker and poorer battery life. And no phone or wifi in it. We forget how good the most basic of phone is these days! My iPAQ cost maybe £500 with the satnav bundle. Seemed a bargain alternative in 2003/2004. Now a BT receiver is cheap as chips if you need one. Software is effectively free.
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