OT (?) HP Ipaq / PDA / Pcket PC 2003 query

I know very little about these PDA's. Are you able to browse with IE etc
view / listen streaming video / radio etc on the PDA if you are obviously
conected wirelessly to your main pc in the same way you can with a laptop ?

How do they cope with video playback and broadand feeds with their far
smaller amount of RAM and processor power max of 400MHz ? ie I guess playing
DVD video is no go ?

Are the recon ones on ebay worth going for or should I buy new ?

"Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I know very little about these PDA's. Are you able to browse with IE etc
> view / listen streaming video / radio etc on the PDA if you are obviously
> conected wirelessly to your main pc in the same way you can with a laptop
?
>
> How do they cope with video playback and broadand feeds with their far
> smaller amount of RAM and processor power max of 400MHz ? ie I guess
playing
> DVD video is no go ?
>
> Are the recon ones on ebay worth going for or should I buy new ?
>
>
>
The screen resolution is very small, at only 320x240 on most devices except
the big HP ones.

A 400 desktop loaded with a wastefull OS can play a movie, so a PDA with a
'slim' OS can happily play it.

When you want to put movies on there, you need to convert them to a PDA
friendly format, Windows Movie Maker does this nicely. Video really eats
away at the memory though.

Finally, i would recomment that you buy new, and stay away from the iPaq's
with the button release stylus. they break after a few dozen clicks.

Hamman

"HamMan" <(E-Mail Removed) > wrote in message
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> "Dave" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I know very little about these PDA's. Are you able to browse with IE etc
> > view / listen streaming video / radio etc on the PDA if you are
obviously
> > conected wirelessly to your main pc in the same way you can with a
laptop
> ?
> >
> > How do they cope with video playback and broadand feeds with their far
> > smaller amount of RAM and processor power max of 400MHz ? ie I guess
> playing
> > DVD video is no go ?
> >
> > Are the recon ones on ebay worth going for or should I buy new ?
> >
> >
> >
> The screen resolution is very small, at only 320x240 on most devices
except
> the big HP ones.

> A 400 desktop loaded with a wastefull OS can play a movie, so a PDA with a
> 'slim' OS can happily play it.

Not sure what you mean by wastefull ?? What I mean is can you view streaming
video directly on the PDA from pkcet pc's internet explorer assuming the o/s
has a browser etc ?

> When you want to put movies on there, you need to convert them to a PDA
> friendly format, Windows Movie Maker does this nicely. Video really eats
> away at the memory though.

Hmm so you can't play avi, mpeg files you load in via a flash drive or SD
card then ? Or play files from a main pc wirelessly ??


> Finally, i would recomment that you buy new, and stay away from the iPaq's
> with the button release stylus. they break after a few dozen clicks.
>

What's the 1930 like with its slower 203 cpu ?

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:50:31 -0000, Dave wrote:

> I know very little about these PDA's. Are you able to browse with IE etc
> view / listen streaming video / radio etc on the PDA if you are obviously
> conected wirelessly to your main pc in the same way you can with a laptop ?

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