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HP iPAQ HX4705 Pocket PC |  | Brand: Hewlett-Packard
Category: CE
List Price: $599.99
Buy Used: $229.95
as of 7/31/2010 16:01 EDT details
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Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 46870
Platform: Windows
Media: Electronics
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Mobile for Pocket PC 2003 Second Edition
CPU Speed: 624
System Memory: 64
Memory Type: SDRAM
Native Resolution: 480x640
Modem: None
Display Size: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 3.8 x 2.6
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: FA304A#ABA
Model: HX-4705
UPC: 829160486277
EAN: 0829160486277
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | WLAN 802.11b, Bluetooth 1.2, IrDA (FIR), USB and Serial | | • | Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition software for Pocket PC | | • | 624 MHz Intel Bulverde technology-based processor | | • | 192 MB total memory (128 MB ROM and 64 MB SDRAM) | | • | 4” Transflective type VGA TFT color, 64K colors, LED backlight |
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Product Description
Includes: Windows Mobile 2003 2nd Edition, Pocket Outlook, Pocket Word, Pocket Excel, Pocket Informant 5.0, 1,800 mAh lithium-ion battery, AC adapter, desktop cradle, plastic flip cover, stylus, & more. hp iPaq hx4705 Pocket PC - This versatile Pocket PC is a reliable go-anywhere business tool for your hectic lifestyle. Be more productive when you utilize the hx4705's fast Intel 624MHz processor and bundled applications. Stay connected to the world around you with integrated 802.11b Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support. No matter where you are, the world is at your fingertips with the hx4705 Pocket PC. 480 x 640 Pixels Magnesium-alloy body Integrated SD Slot (supports SD/MMC and SDIO) Integrated CF Slot (CompactFlash Type II) Integrated Microphone & Speaker (both on the front of the iPaq) 3.5mm Stereo Headphone Jack MP3 Stereo Playback 4 Shortcut programmable buttons Navigation touchpad with mouse-like cursor Buttons - power, voice record, soft reset, contacts, inbox, mail, & iTask Connects to a PC via USB 2.0 Unit Dimensions - 5.17 (h) x 3.03 (w) x. 59 (d) Unit Weight - 6.6 oz.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 48
 Nice PDA, Annoying Trackpad, Poor selection of Vital Accessories January 14, 2010
C. Critchfield
PDA's and Smartphones are in that medival phase of their life much the way PC's were in the Windows 3.11 & Win95 days, where you find something really cool then suffer from lack of drivers and other annoying road-blocks.
My basic goal when I started to delve into PDA's was to get something I could team with a portable keyboard to use for taking notes in class. I have a netbook, but even with as small as the netbook is, it's annoying lugging it around in the backpack. Plus, the netbook was a bit pricey compared to getting a used PDA (or so I thought).
I started my adventure, in hind-sight, completely a**-backwards. You see, I thought, like any reasonable person, that I could pick out a PDA that I really liked, and would be able to easily snatch up a keyboard for it form a slew of options out there. I was so wrong. I got the hx4605 used from a guy for $100, and it seemed like a really awesome deal (and it was). I went for it since it had the really awesome screen, with crystal-clear resolution and beautiful clear type text. When you get this thing into portrait mode, it's very wonderful. It would make the perfect, portable word processing solution.
But then my nightmare started. The availability of portable keyboards for this (and for Pocket PC's in general), is severly lacking. Basically, your options are ...
The ThinkOutside Stowaway Bluetooth Keyboard. It's the best on the market, unfortunately it has very limited driver / pda support, and iGo, the company that bought the intellectual property, isn't very supportive with it anymore. There is no driver for the hx4705, but if you're lucky you can dig one up from xda-developers forums or such to get it to work on your hx4705.
The HP bluetooth keyboard, which basically sucks. Folks say it breaks easily, the batteries are constantly worn down since (unlike the others) it doesn't turn off the bluetooth when not in use. It appals me that HP can make such good PDA's, then totally fail in the accesories department.
The FreedomInput Bluetooth. Supports a huge range of devices, but people complain about laggy input and are generally not satisfied.
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So, my options are to go with a really great keyboard (Stowaway), that might not work with this device, or a crappy one from HP which I'll regret, or a crappy one from FreedomInput which I'll regret.
This is really absurd. Bottomline, if you get this PDA, don't go in expecting it to replace a mobile computer. Accesories are hard to find, and by the time you dig up ones to team with it (EG: like a bluetooth keyboard), you might as well just get a netbook if you're more into word-processing, or a smartphone if you're more for mobile office/business/on-the-go/need-a-personal-baby-sitter day planner type of stuff. In total, you would pay ~$100+ for the PDA + ~$100+ for a decent bluetooth keyboard to expand your functionality. You can get a decent, used netbook for the same price ... a netbook that won't run the annoying quirky Windows Mobile OS. A netbook that has far more free applications out there for it than a PDA has available. A netbook you can use as an actual computer, either by itself, or plugged into a wireless keyboard/mouse & monitor to use in docking-station fashion. A netbook that you can plug other stuff into, like flash sticks and things.
However, a netbook is too bulky to shove in a pants pocket. This PDA, however, is too bulky to do that, too. It's more of a purse / backpack PDA. While the 4" screen is truly beautiful, it makes the device a bit too big to be super portable.
Ok, ragging on this aside, let me state the Positives...
* The wifi on this thing has an absolutely ridiculous range, and is very easy to setup with nearby wireless stations. It's only a "b" wireless chip, but where I live the wifi router is some 100'+ away through several walls, and this thing can hook up and surf the net easily. (However, don't get too impressed, ... so can my rx1950).
* The screen on this is definitely worth the price of admission if you can find it for under $150. Even without a keyboard to use as a mobile word processing solution, you can easily get some pocket PDF software and use it as a mobile reader.
* You can flash the ROM on PDA's quite easily these days to upgrade to better "cooked" versions of Windows Mobile. Mine came with the woefully craptacular Win Mo 2003. It also had issues with battery and other things that HP had supplied ROM updates for. Flashing the ROM may seem daunting to some (you hook the device, and folks worry that if you bork it up you brick the device). But it's actually quite simple if you go to places like xda-developers and follow the instructions for the ROM's made specifically for your device. I flashed the ROM on my device with the WinMo 6.1 Alkor, and it practically flies now. The various dev's kit-bashing ROM's together trim some of the cruft programs from it so it has more memory and works faster, plus it's upgraded to the latest OS. (Which still isn't saying much, since it's Win Mo/CE, but still). Unfortunately, you're sort of left on your own for this. Folks like HP, Dell, etc .. they sell you these expensinve PDA's, but they still think of them like toys, not taking their updates seriously. If it was up to HP, the hx4705 would never be updateable to WinMo 6+ ... they'd rather you pop money on a new device. I find this very sad.
* If you manage multiple computers and use VNC to any extent, then you can get a PDA version of VNC client and use this thing to check in on your boxes. It's actually pretty useful at times, especially since the PDA has enough horsepower to handle it.
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And now the Negatives...
* I find the trackpad to be about as annoying as a tick on a dog's ass. This is a PDA, not a laptop. The trackpad basically neuters non-stylus gaming capability on this thing. Then again, if you were looking to mostly play games on a portable device, you'd be looking at some other device, not a PDA.
* The choice of applications is pretty limited. The default apps loaded are pretty good, and will cover most generic swiss-army situations you'd use a PDA for (tasks, calendar, mobile office, internet, etc). But to get more you're going to have to dig and dig and dig online. Most of the really good apps are ridiculously over-priced by third-party vendors. You can find freeware for PDA's, but a lot of it is meant to overcome deficiencies in the PDA, like clearing out crap registry entries, bad installs, and other junk; stuff to keep your PDA up and running, not expand it's capability.
* Don't expect to do anything really uber-useful like you could on a netbook, laptop or desktop. Sure, you can surf for some videos, play some music, etc. But you can't plug this thing into a portable hard drive and power adapter to have it act like a torrent client while you're recharging it. (Well, you could, but it would take a lot of scrounging for accesories, some paid programs, and other headaches). Surfing the net is ok, but it's not like surfing on a real computer. Checking email is ... well, if you use Gmail or YahooMail you have to first find a mobile wifi hotspot, then hook up ... if you're going to go to that much effort, just go the extra mile and get a smartphone with 3g or something. Basically, these devices are meant primarily as personal baby-sitters, with task reminders and calender. If you're not going to use it mainly for that, then you should probably pass on it. Using it as a portable office with pocket word, excel, etc? Ridiculous without a keyboard, and if you're going to go to the trouble of gettting a keyboard you might as well just get a netbook and get on with life. PDA's, even with bluetooth and wifi, are falling into this dead zone of uselessness, where they have a lot of power to do lots of stuff, but just have not been exploited to their full potential. Most of this is because the Windows Mobile OS has been such a joke for so long, not many folks want to develop for it.
Would I get this PDA again? No.
It doesn't do mobile word processing like I'd like. I got a Stowaway IR keyboard for it thinking an IR keyboard would be universal just to find out later that ThinkOutside/iGo only support a very limited number of PDA's ... my hx4705 & rx1950 NOT being supported. So now I have a $50 keyboard I use as a paperweight.
I don't really use the calendar or task reminders. I find paper far more useful. Paper doesn't run low on batteries, or shut it's screen off to save power right when you're trying to stare at it for some important piece of info. A piece of paper isn't bulky to hold into while you're shopping for groceries. And when you're done, you can just toss the piece of paper easily instead of having to break out the stylus and remember to delete the task, etc, etc. If you need a personal baby-sitter, then get a smartphone, since they do it also, and can also call & do internet anywhere.
Since I don't use the PDA for it's main function (personal baby-sitter), and I can't use it for it's secondary function (mobile word processing) without popping another $100 on a keyboard that may or may not work very well, then what's left? I can't run it as a BOINC crunching client 24/7. I can't surf the net on it, since wifi hotspots are few and far between where I live. I can't play games I'd like to play on it since it has the insipid trackpad (I play Doom on the rx1950 since it DOES have an actual D pad.) I can't toss it off to the side and set it up as a personal file server, since it can't plug into hard drives or such. I can't use it as an offline map program, since portable Google Maps requires you to be online for it to work.
For the most part, I bought this device and it's been a $100+ paper weight sitting on my desk.
Your mileage may vary.
 Got What I Asked For September 12, 2009
mark krause (houston tx)
My old ipaq screen failed and I wanted to get a good used replacement. I got what I wanted on time and for a reasonable cost.
Thanks
IPAQ love May 13, 2008
old cat lady
The best by far. This is my second one. I wanted a back up in case there is ever a problem.
It has everything necessary for business including wi-fi.
I love this thing!
five years later, I still think of it as the best PDA available! January 8, 2008
Luis Alberto Garcia Alonso (Chicago, IL, USA)
When I bought it five years ago (or something like that), I thought it was the best PDA then... now, I can say it again.
It has one of the best screens I've ever seen, with VGA resolution.
It has bluetooth and Wi-fi. My only complain here is that from time to time, the Bluetooth refuses to turn on due to a "low memory" warning, that you can get rid of it by sof-reseting the device (or nor overhelming the main memory with too many small applications!).
With SD and CF, it has all the possibilities available!
And the magnesium case is great!! at least someone took a breath and actually tought, and found out that puting a plastic case on a PDA worth $600, intended for professional use, wasn't such a great idea (most of the new ones, worth that still have plastic cases!).
I have nothing but good words for it!!
NIce March 8, 2007
J. Ragsdale (SoCal)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This unit is great. Have had it for over a year now and it is flawless in operation. Hope they keep making it or a better updated version as time goes on. Upgraded to Windows Mob. 5 and it work fine as well. TON of memory and takes CF and SD cards. I have 1 gig ultrs in it now. Holds a TON of pictures and maps for pocketstreets, which I use often. I put a GPS card in it and and I have Navigation ability with Pocket-Streets... and yes holds and plays video and music with mob. MSplayer 10
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