HP iPAQ rx5915 Travel Companion
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Electronics : HP iPAQ rx5915 Travel Companion |
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Electronics : HP iPAQ rx5915 Travel Companion |
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Back Accessories:      see moreRelated Items:     see moreBatteries Included: 1 Battery Type: Lithium Ion Binding: Electronics Brand: Hewlett-Packard Color: GRAY EAN: 0882780587649 Includes Mp3 Player: 1 Label: Hewlett Packard Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard Memory Slots Available: SD slot Model: FA811AA#ABA Modem Description: None Native Resolution: 240 x 320 Number Of Items: 1 Platform: Windows Publisher: Hewlett Packard Release Date: 2006-11-13 Studio: Hewlett Packard Warranty: 1 year warranty Features:
Rating:  - TomTom poor with support for this deviceI purchased this product 2 months ago thinking I could solve most of the critical points I read online but I am still struggling trying to run the French map which I successfully downloaded and installed onto an SD card. I did read that the TomTom application also needs to reside on the SD card because no link can be established between the iPAQ File Store, where it lives, and the SD card. The application cannot be moved nor does it exist anywhere else that I can access to install onto the SD card. So as of now, my French maps are unuseable 1.5 weeks before my trip. TomTom does not answer its "contact us" support screen and ignores this particular device on its webpage. I think that HP owes us ... Read More Rating:  - Don't buy this -- it locks up and quits talking. The Garmin 660 is much better in almost all ways. That's what I bought after Don't buy this -- it locks up and quits talking. The Garmin 660 is much better in almost every way. That's what I bought after returning this one. Rating:  - Great Device for the PriceThe rx5915 is everthing I expected it to be. It's a great, versatile, PDA, and the addition of the Tom Tom software with the built in GPS receiver makes it a outstanding bargain!! Contrary to HP's "corporate line" claim that the 5915 will only work with a 1 GB SD card, you can sucessfully run a 2 GB card, just as long as it's not SDHC. This give you ample storage for vids, pics and MP3s. This is an all-around great little PDA. My only complaint with the unit is that it does have a tendency to "lose" a Wi-Fi signal even when it's at it's strongest. The only way you can successfully reconnect to the network is to do a soft reset and then reconnect. It's an inconvenience, but minor, in my book, ... Read More Rating:  - Leave the laptop at home!I travel by motorcycle, so space is at a premium! I'd been bringing my laptop on short trips, but ended up not using it as much as I thought I would. All I really needed was some way of finding hotel locations and phone numbers, plus some way to email or post photos when I had a wifi connection. Before leaving on a Canadian 2 week adventure last August, we decided a GPS might be helpful. After searching for a month or so, I decided on the RX5915. I'm glad I did! The iPaq paid for itself the first 2 nights we were on our trip - using Tom Tom to find hotels (and their phone numbers) in small towns, then calling ahead and securing the last hotel room in town! Read More Rating: - Awesome Little BoxI bought this when my old iPaq died recently, and I'm very, very happy with this new one. The regular Windows Mobile apps are just as solid as ever, and while the new GPS has its quirks, overall I'm very happy with that too. Quirks: sometimes streets aren't named (though I was surprised by how many little dirt roads WERE named) and on two occasions, the unit showed me driving to the side of the road rather than on it. Battery life is excellent and the buttons are well-placed. It's nice that HP has ditched their proprietary power port in favor of mini-USB, so any cable will connect to a PC. I would have preferred a different locale for the stylus, but I'm getting used to that. Read More |
Ted Shelton: "Frankly I felt that BlogOn was a waste of time and money."
I think the BlogOn conference was overproduced. In the name of professionalism the organizing firm turned off potential speakers, oversubscribed sponsors, etc.
I would have liked a debatable topic (aside from *blogging = journalism*. Two people slugging it out. Or a devil's advocate taking challenges from the floor.
I would have liked more hard numbers. Facts. Charts. Diagrams. We have the analytic tools to BS-check them; harder on vague opinions and single-points-of-observation.
I found it disturbing how much money was being commanded (from both attendees and sponsors) for a conference at a university. Maybe it was because it was at Berkeley? Maybe we should have taken over a community college or a Cal State or a DeVry. The facilities costs would have been cheaper at least. I heard an organizer apologize and say the next one would be at a hotel, like that would have been better.
Cost wasn't the whole problem. We're at a stage where early adopters are meeting folks who want to leap the chasm. Huge gaps in knowledge, experience, context, culture, vocabulary. It's the gap.
There are huge ideas to be explored, even in the world of applying blogs to media strategy and the enterprise. And most of the big ideas weren't even on the agenda at BlogOn. Probably because it was catering to those who want to commercialize, fund, and otherwise exploit (excuse me, "get in on") the emerging medium.
Let's fork these conferences so advanced topics on business and technology and culture fit the participants.
While this iPhone security hole isn't nearly as gaping as the last one we covered (which was fixed by Apple), it too exploits the emergency call feature in password-protected mode. In password-protected mode, there's an option to disable SMS preview, so if someone picks up your locked phone, they can't see incoming text messages. However, if you activate a locked phone's emergency call mode, and it receives a text message, it'll show you the full text in preview. And yes, this is with 2.1. Again, a sorta minor security oversight, but if you're super-secret about your texts (for whatever reasons), this is definitely a problem and needs to be fixed in the next update. [Karl Kraft via Daring Fireball]