Ha, that intro. The world of TH-cam retro tech coverage is amusingly small indeed. Oh well, hooray for more PocketPC coverage! Looking forward to seeing more of that camera in action :)
My grandpa gave me a couple of those to mess around with when I was in middle school ~6 years ago. Great fun. Also helped me type some last-minute school assignments before I had my own laptop.
6 years ago? Why didnt you just type your last minute school assignments with smartphone or something? 6 years ago everyone had touchscreen smartphone already lol
My mom had one as a supplement to her flip phone that the Oakland County, Michigan sheriff’s office gave her. Her patrol car had an XP laptop, which upon her first patrol car’s retirement, she kept. They gave her a work-provided Pocket PC.
@Ronnie Roo Well, this was a decade ago by now, when the Pocket PC was obsolete but had little collectible value. I think my grandpa used them when he was a traveling businessman and just gave them to me when he had no need for them anymore.
Opera literally runs on everything, it runs on vista, xp, windows phone, Mac, Linux, iOS Android, Blackberry Java ME, Sony Ericsson, Nintendo DS, even on Nokia brick phones... (and that’s just naming a few) well, pretty much as cross platform as it can get If you have a device and it can connect to the internet, chances are, you can probably download opera on it
fun fact it can also run the famous Viola-Jones face detection algorithm at 2 fps, as reported by "Rapid object detection using a boosted cascade of simple features" (Viola, P.; Jones, M., 2001)
Wow when he shows the video on the ipaq. Me looking on my screen looking at the screen of the ipaq, looking at a screen in the video looking at a screen. Screen inception!
I’ve got a Pocket PC from 2003 or so. I wish it ran DOS and Sierra games. It seems like such an elementary thing for a 2003 computer, even a pocket computer, to be able to do.
Ahh I had two of these (an older one in grayscale and one in color) and thought it was the best thing ever. I loved being able to sit in bed and browse the internet. I even wrote journals and essays in it - with the stylus. Yes, tapping out one letter at a time.
I had that exact HP! I used it to emulate NES and listen to music and it was so cool. There was an Opera browser for it that gave it better website functionality. Edit: yeah you mentioned it later in the video :)
I think the screen is decently sized, there are JUST enough buttons but they are arranged in a weird way, also maybe the processor and RAM is good enough. It adds up.
@@bmhater1283 It could even run SNES depending on the device. My hp hx4700 could run most games, including donkey kong. The fact it had buttons including a Dpad makes it better to play than a smartphone nowadays.
Can't remember if I had this particular model, but I definitely had a pocket PC that ran this OS when I was a kid. Loved it to pieces. I remember loading low bitrate music files on it and drawing things with it during long car rides. I vividly remember playing that jawbreaker game in sunday school when I got really bored(The teacher assumed I was taking notes(????) and didn't mind me using it). One day, the kid next to me narc'd on me and I got in trouble. I have no regrets. Thanks for dredging these memories back into my conscious mind, great video as always, Elf.
I had exactly that iPAQ and I loved it. I did a lot of work with it and I loved Windows for Pocket PC. I also loved the design of the iPAQ and all it's gadgets.
I had exactly that model back in the early 2000's. Remember it very fondly. If you get one program for it - get Age of Empires. Surprisingly well produced version. Basically the same as the desktop version
I've still got my HP Ipaq, I used it so much back in the day, it is now in the box in my wardrobe and that's where it stayed for the last 14 years! I bought it for about £450 when it was brand new and it also had space for an SD and Compact Flash memory cards. Luckily I bought an extended warranty. I wore the screen out twice so that needed to be replaced and I got that done under the warranty!
I had an NEC p300, thing was amazing. It used the CF port for a wifi card. I could connect to any wifi with it and browse through whatever computers connected to the wifi. Warwalker/wardriver’s dream.
I remember when I started working at a supermarket only a few years ago, my department used PDAs kind of like these, running Windows Mobile. They were painfully slow and typing was a nightmare if there wasn't a stylus with a unit. Luckily we soon upgraded to Motorola PDAs that ran on Android and felt more like a modern smartphone.
Back when I was a teenager and mobile computing was an unobtainable luxury to gawk at, I thought PDAs were the coolest thing ever. Now in the age of ubiquitous smartphones I'm more cynical about the whole thing. Guess I'm getting old now. (Ironically I am writing this on a tablet.)
Honestly, I feel the exact same. I gawked at all the pocket PCs in magazines, but being young, I was never going to either afford one or talk my parents into one either xD now that I'm much older, I've got a nice smartphone, but it still doesn't catch the same feeling somehow. Maybe it's because it's missing WM2003! XD
Loved the intro to this video, and if anyone complains about you doing similar content to LGR don't pay them any attention, as I think more good content on this kind of stuff is awesome, and I can't wait to see that camera module in action, as one of my first digital cameras was a stand alone 1MP HP with a 64MB Compact Flash card. :-)
I remember hacking my PSP to run the Java version of Opera Mini with PSPKVM. The difference was night and day vs. the stock browser. Sadly, it couldn't play videos in the browser for whatever reason. Anyways; thanks for unlocking that memory because the Pocket PC version looked very similar. I haven't tried it yet, but, supposedly you can emulate Java very well on Android by installing the PPSSPP emulator and then running PSPKVM like you would a game. Sorry for going off topic.
Wow you took me back some years... Both me and my father used to own a HP pocket pc and they were the best at the time... I can really remember my father playing jawbreaker all the time and he had actually almost destroyed the screen at the bottom left corner where the bubble would gather at the end of the game... Ahh memories...
I remember having one of these with a CF WiFi card, and a foldable keyboard that the it docked into. How cool was I, taking notes during lectures on my PDA :-D
I recently bought a Dell Axim x41v for a presentation about PDAs, I too installed Opera Mini (the way it works is that the page is rendered and the JavaScript executed on the Opera servers and then gets sent to your device, that's probably why most current websites still look fine on it). I still haven't found a universal remote control app like the one you showed, because with that it would at least be partially useful to me.
Do the Opera Mini 5 / Opera Mobile 9 compression servers even still work? Last time I used it was in 2013. I thought they had shut down the old servers recently, so Opera 5 would not work anymore.
I'll have to buy one of these one day, they look so fun to mess around with. I'm glad you made a video on Pocket PCs, there don't seem to be too many of decent quality on TH-cam. Small portable devices fascinate me for some reason, it's interesting to see little computers with not much memory run cool programs that do tasks that normally require a regular PC.
Aw, man, time to dig out my HP IPAQ HX4700 for Pocket PC Month! I had no clue about the existence of Opera Mini on Pocket PCs, looks so smooth! I didn't know about Nevo, either. I recall looking for a program for my pocket PC years ago that did the same job as Nevo does. Nice video, and no, we don't think you're copying Clint. ;)
From what I've read, Nevo appears to be a special bundle with my model. I think I might give it a closer look with my next video. I tested it after filming this video, and it works surprisingly well.
When I see some devices like these I think how could this be existed in a time where that it was not usual as noawadays. I remember watching some movie like Charlie's Angels (2000) and Little Black Book (2004), for instance. This devices were restricted for a specific public, and I got really impressive that somethings had already existed before this "boom" of smartphones have become so usual and necessary in present days.
Very cool trip down memory lane. I had a very cool Sprint compact flash CF2031 3G data/voice card that I was able to add to my plan as $10 add-a-phone and with VPN software was able to remote into work and make network changes via telnet. This 2004 era device was the forefather to smartphones and tablets.
I remember when I bought the original Compaq iPaq Pocket PC 3650 from Sears back in August or September of 2000. In my last year of highschool, I remember using it to take notes and had a couple other programs through 2001 and up till early 2002 I remember that I had it.
Why when I was young I never heard of this thing and I was out of highschool in 2003 but still was more into video games back then. This reminds me of the iPhone a lot with its docking and the name iPaq.
I HAD an HP, pocket PC. I remember loving it. One day, I set itdown, forgot all about it, until right now!!! Forgot about it, for 20 years!!! I have zero recollection of what hgappened to that thing.... Man, I want one back...
I used one of these for a few years round 2004 and I really found it very useful for many of things I would use a smart phone for now. I do remember buying that camera which was kinda fun.
My dad had a similar PDA looking device that probably ran the same operating system at the time. He also had the iGPS-CF adaptor for aviation applications. I remember connecting it to the internet from the docking connector.
Ah, those (fond) memories... Never read as many (e)books as back when I had a little PocketPC from Asus, with that Microsoft Reader. Which eventually led me to buy a couple of e-readers later on. Quite a capable little machine , that was indeed. Cheers to more videos on that subject!
I remember well getting the original Compaq Ipaq for Christmas. Before she wrapped it, my partner at the time said I should check it out as it was quite expensive at launch. I'd explored practically everything it could do under half an hour, never did find a practical use for it in the end, although I was obviously a gluton for punishment as I also had a PocketPC phone a couple of years later, a Palm Treo phone (which I actually loved and really miss) and a Palm Tungsten T3. I still have the PocketPC phone, it'll start up but the batteries are dead and it bootloops a lot, and the Palm Tungsten T3 which actually still works perfectly to this day, which I mostly used with an early TomTom release before they made their own systems, this was great locally in the UK but hopeless further afield, getting lost in deepest darkest France was not my idea of fun.
You should do one on the Palm TX. Palm's last (or close to it) and most powerful PDA. Wifi, Bluetooth, Optional Tom Tom GPS Navigation, great little device. Also did full screen video, web, mp3 ect... The best thing about it was the strong third party and home brew software. Media players for more exotic file formats (back then exotic anyway), total UI overhauls, game emulators and more. The calendar and scheduling (especially with 3rd party apps but even without) offered fantastic customization.
Oh wow. Nostalgia. I bought an IPaq (with the modem) when i was completing my masters degree back in early 2000's. I remember playing Age of Empires on it all night (while plugged to a wall outlet). Those where the days. 😄
Actually, Windows tablet PCs in those days had a better handwriting recognition than f.i. the Note series from Samsung. I had an Acer Tablet PC, which did not only do handwriting recognition very well, but also speech to text. Way better than what we have on Google Assistant today. Don't know why they can't get this resolved much better on Android 15 years later.
Dad found one of these on a college campus and we had a great deal of fun with it before finding the original owner and returning it. Unlike the model in your video, ours used a tiny hard disk drive. Also, at the time there was a website just for mobile computers that had low-resolution versions of popular videos. We put that HD to good use. Years later, I would get my first smartphone, the T-mobile Dash (HTC Excalibur), which had Windows Mobile 5. Windows Mobile/CE was very flexible, just like PC Windows. For instance, I could get free (slow) Internet by calling the school's aging dail-up gateway instead of paying T-mobile for data - likely a legacy feature from WinMo's palm computing days. The only thing it lacked was an app store - finding apps that worked was a challenge, but I had fun with it. If you want to find more apps, be on the lookout for mobile software collection discs. I found one for Palm OS, so I bet there's some out there for Windows Mobile.
I have an unlocked copy of the 6945 iPaq which still works just fine and I am considering having as my primary phone since I didn't use it much when it was new due to not being able to take it to work due to the rules of my employer. My current phone is having charging problems which is giving me the blues and I am tired of the brand of phone I have anyway. I also have a Dell pocket PC which was just a PC and was able to take photos with it, but could not get online without a special cable which connected to the computer.
I remember using my pocket PC with a SNES emulator. It was funky to control, and I think I tried connecting something over bluetooth like a keyboard or controller but it wouldn't work. So I played SNES games with the funky controls of the dell axim and got over it. Also i'm not sure how many people did this but I remember buying games that came with windows mobile versions.
There even was a youtube app and google maps app for windows mobile. I used that youtube app so often and would like to experience it again for nostalgia, but it doesn't work anymore unfortunately.
This may be due to certificate issues and codec support, as TH-cam, for example, no longer supports VP8. VP9 and MPEG4 are still supported. The TH-cam mobile website no longer supports Android 2.3, so any older devices are unlikely to support that either.
Compaq also had a desktop line of Windows PCs called 'iPaqs.' I was a PC tech a long time ago (2000-2001) and I unboxed about 200 of them (and heavy 19" Samsung CRTs), and put Windows 98 images on them via Ghost one summer. Good times. You're lucky that iPaq has USB. Most of our PDAs back then were DB9 serial, including my Palm IIIc. :-)
I had such a HP thing bought 2004. I mainly used it for car navigation with some version of Navigon running on it. You had to copy your planned route to the SD- or CF-Card (mine had both), because they had capacities measured in KB instead of GB.
2:40 At least on the rx3700 series (I had a rx3715 back in the day), the same left indicator that lights up for Bluetooth, also flashes green when programs told Windows Mobile to "vibrate" the device. 3:34 I remembered that ActiveSync would automatically open and sync when I docked my rx3715 to the NEC PC I had at the time. 3:45 I just remembered, there was a program called "MyMobiler" which allowed the PDA display to be viewed and interacted with on the PC. That came in pretty handy as I didn't need to take my hands off of the keyboard and mouse. 3:49 There was a program called "eXPerience" that was a custom launcher for WM2003SE that provided a WinXP style screen, though it didn't replace the Today screen like with the HP launcher on the rx series, but instead provided a Today item to access it from there. 6:45 I *very much* remember using that on mine. 7:44 I remember having a cracked copy of Opera Mobile (I think it was version 8, and Opera wasn't selling any more licences for that version at the time) installed.
Wow, blast from the past. I worked in Microsoft's Windows CE group from 1997 through 2005 or so. I was on the documentation team, and wrote the device driver documentation for the platform. We (Microsoft) didn't have anything to do with the hardware that Compaq, HP, and the rest of the OEMs released. We, as was Microsoft's way at the time, just made the OS. Nevertheless, there was always a fair amount of communication with those OEMs, such that every new mobile device that hit the market pretty much constituted a new release/revision of the OS. Still, it was always exciting when a new device would finally hit the market, as the OEM would send us hardware so everybody in the group got a free one as a "ship gift". As the team expanded, that got more expensive so eventually the freebies stopped. Time passed. The team and the OS got rebranded a few times, and everything in mobile technology converged into phones. The end of time time there was just at the start of the Windows Phone era, before I moved on to other opportunities. Still, we had a lot of fun in Windows CE, and doing device driver documentation was about as close to working on the "bare metal" as anything at Microsoft was going to get, which I enjoyed. Good times!
I had the iPAQ 2210... Think it's identical and maybe just a localised version. Man... I had Age of Empires on it. You would be amazed at how well that plays on it!!!
The Science Elf - just a note, those PDAs started becoming smartphones when microsoft added "phone edition" to the PDAs. like "Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition" - I had one in 2006, called audiovox 6600, it was one year before the first iphone was launched -- and it was a lot better "on average" than the iphone (and to its(iphone) credit, it was the first one to popularize a "touch UI")
I liked my pocket pc's running various windows operating systems, but preferred my Palm OS devices. I still carry a Treo along with my Android smartphone. There are too many databases and apps for the Palm that I wouldn't want to do without. Like the Treo, I liked the ability on the Pocket PC's to let you easily swap the battery.
Opera Mini actually takes the website, converts and optimizes it for the browser, that's why it did pass the assets test. It also saves mobile data that way v:
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Ha, that intro. The world of TH-cam retro tech coverage is amusingly small indeed.
Oh well, hooray for more PocketPC coverage! Looking forward to seeing more of that camera in action :)
LGR i was waiting for you.
And yeah true.
You guys should collab!
C O L L A B ????
please do a collab!
There’s a packing peanuts stuck in my iMac g3 XD
Man, this thing back in 2003 must have been amazing
yes it was !
Evie Launcher im sorry but iphone changed everything there touch was insane it was the best and still is
Kamak Mama lol "and still is."
Dude i have windows sever 2003.
...ly expensive haha
When I saw bonzi buddy in the thumbnail I knew this was my video
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@@recyclechannel1556 he/she means he/she knew this was his/her kind of video
My grandpa gave me a couple of those to mess around with when I was in middle school ~6 years ago. Great fun. Also helped me type some last-minute school assignments before I had my own laptop.
6 years ago? Why didnt you just type your last minute school assignments with smartphone or something? 6 years ago everyone had touchscreen smartphone already lol
@@Leijona321 Erik Nilsen said that he didn't have any laptop why would you want to type on an iPhone 4 or Samsung galaxy s3 or s2 exactly
My mom had one as a supplement to her flip phone that the Oakland County, Michigan sheriff’s office gave her. Her patrol car had an XP laptop, which upon her first patrol car’s retirement, she kept. They gave her a work-provided Pocket PC.
@@Leijona321 *16 y typo maybe lol
@Ronnie Roo Well, this was a decade ago by now, when the Pocket PC was obsolete but had little collectible value. I think my grandpa used them when he was a traveling businessman and just gave them to me when he had no need for them anymore.
Opera literally runs on everything, it runs on vista, xp, windows phone, Mac, Linux, iOS Android, Blackberry Java ME, Sony Ericsson, Nintendo DS, even on Nokia brick phones... (and that’s just naming a few)
well, pretty much as cross platform as it can get
If you have a device and it can connect to the internet, chances are, you can probably download opera on it
I can remember using it on my DS years ago
If you wanna talk Cross Platform, talk DOOM.
Robin MGP there is literally a Wikipedia page only about that...
Lol
Maybe I can get Opera running on my Keurig
fun fact
it can also run the famous Viola-Jones face detection algorithm at 2 fps, as reported by "Rapid object detection using a boosted cascade of simple features" (Viola, P.; Jones, M., 2001)
*expand dong*
_notices buldge_
"Game Theory: Is Uncle Joel secretly the SCIENCE ELF??!"
C'mon who doesn't want to see that...
e x p a n d d o n g
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As you wish, my master
Wow when he shows the video on the ipaq. Me looking on my screen looking at the screen of the ipaq, looking at a screen in the video looking at a screen. Screen inception!
It only took 4 layers for someone to finally notice what I've been doing since last year! :)
I did, It was trippy and funny
I’ve got a Pocket PC from 2003 or so. I wish it ran DOS and Sierra games. It seems like such an elementary thing for a 2003 computer, even a pocket computer, to be able to do.
Ahh I had two of these (an older one in grayscale and one in color) and thought it was the best thing ever. I loved being able to sit in bed and browse the internet. I even wrote journals and essays in it - with the stylus. Yes, tapping out one letter at a time.
That is such a cool portable PC! I love this vintage tech. I wish Microsoft would make a modern refresh of this portable PC.
I had that exact HP! I used it to emulate NES and listen to music and it was so cool. There was an Opera browser for it that gave it better website functionality.
Edit: yeah you mentioned it later in the video :)
Hold the fuck up, how the ass can you emulate NES games on the ipaq?
I think the screen is decently sized, there are JUST enough buttons but they are arranged in a weird way, also maybe the processor and RAM is good enough.
It adds up.
@@bmhater1283 It could even run SNES depending on the device. My hp hx4700 could run most games, including donkey kong. The fact it had buttons including a Dpad makes it better to play than a smartphone nowadays.
@BMHater12 The CPU is more than fast enough. You could emulate the NES on far slower or less powerful devices like the Nintendo DS and GBA.
Worm world party and age of empires was fun on these as well
This device was my first introduction to smart devices this video brings a lot of good old memories
Can't remember if I had this particular model, but I definitely had a pocket PC that ran this OS when I was a kid. Loved it to pieces. I remember loading low bitrate music files on it and drawing things with it during long car rides. I vividly remember playing that jawbreaker game in sunday school when I got really bored(The teacher assumed I was taking notes(????) and didn't mind me using it). One day, the kid next to me narc'd on me and I got in trouble. I have no regrets. Thanks for dredging these memories back into my conscious mind, great video as always, Elf.
I had exactly that iPAQ and I loved it. I did a lot of work with it and I loved Windows for Pocket PC. I also loved the design of the iPAQ and all it's gadgets.
I had exactly that model back in the early 2000's. Remember it very fondly. If you get one program for it - get Age of Empires. Surprisingly well produced version. Basically the same as the desktop version
I've still got my HP Ipaq, I used it so much back in the day, it is now in the box in my wardrobe and that's where it stayed for the last 14 years! I bought it for about £450 when it was brand new and it also had space for an SD and Compact Flash memory cards. Luckily I bought an extended warranty. I wore the screen out twice so that needed to be replaced and I got that done under the warranty!
I enjoy how you talk about the products, so much detail and its just fun to watch. Please keep making more videos(:
I had an NEC p300, thing was amazing. It used the CF port for a wifi card. I could connect to any wifi with it and browse through whatever computers connected to the wifi. Warwalker/wardriver’s dream.
Windows Phone 2003.
ShadowDark Pro lmfao best comment
@@karoliskazlauskas1213 not sure
Windows Mobile actually
@Windows Explorer // Exploring Windows same same habibi
having been a user of a hp Windows CE PDA when i was younger, i cant belive how far we come
I remember when I started working at a supermarket only a few years ago, my department used PDAs kind of like these, running Windows Mobile. They were painfully slow and typing was a nightmare if there wasn't a stylus with a unit. Luckily we soon upgraded to Motorola PDAs that ran on Android and felt more like a modern smartphone.
Back when I was a teenager and mobile computing was an unobtainable luxury to gawk at, I thought PDAs were the coolest thing ever. Now in the age of ubiquitous smartphones I'm more cynical about the whole thing. Guess I'm getting old now. (Ironically I am writing this on a tablet.)
Honestly, I feel the exact same. I gawked at all the pocket PCs in magazines, but being young, I was never going to either afford one or talk my parents into one either xD now that I'm much older, I've got a nice smartphone, but it still doesn't catch the same feeling somehow. Maybe it's because it's missing WM2003! XD
@@ShadowEO lol ikr, looking at them in the magazine was all i could do. i felt so much admiration back then, nowadays gadget all feel monotonous.
Loved the intro to this video, and if anyone complains about you doing similar content to LGR don't pay them any attention, as I think more good content on this kind of stuff is awesome, and I can't wait to see that camera module in action, as one of my first digital cameras was a stand alone 1MP HP with a 64MB Compact Flash card. :-)
I remember hacking my PSP to run the Java version of Opera Mini with PSPKVM. The difference was night and day vs. the stock browser. Sadly, it couldn't play videos in the browser for whatever reason. Anyways; thanks for unlocking that memory because the Pocket PC version looked very similar.
I haven't tried it yet, but, supposedly you can emulate Java very well on Android by installing the PPSSPP emulator and then running PSPKVM like you would a game.
Sorry for going off topic.
I still remember Bubble Pop from my Samsung Pocket PC and the updates from windows mobile 6.2 up to 6.8
I love the nostalgic of this video
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Wow you took me back some years... Both me and my father used to own a HP pocket pc and they were the best at the time... I can really remember my father playing jawbreaker all the time and he had actually almost destroyed the screen at the bottom left corner where the bubble would gather at the end of the game... Ahh memories...
Ipad, ipaq sound similar =D
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Robin MGP what's that video?
CONSPIRACY!
q is d upside down
difference is the ipaq is useable
I have two pocket pcs
I did have multiple videos on one of them. and you simply cannot beat that super nostalgic jawbreaker game
I remember having one of these with a CF WiFi card, and a foldable keyboard that the it docked into. How cool was I, taking notes during lectures on my PDA :-D
I recently bought a Dell Axim x41v for a presentation about PDAs, I too installed Opera Mini (the way it works is that the page is rendered and the JavaScript executed on the Opera servers and then gets sent to your device, that's probably why most current websites still look fine on it). I still haven't found a universal remote control app like the one you showed, because with that it would at least be partially useful to me.
Do the Opera Mini 5 / Opera Mobile 9 compression servers even still work? Last time I used it was in 2013. I thought they had shut down the old servers recently, so Opera 5 would not work anymore.
mzs112000 I'm not sure what version the one for Windows Mobile PDAs is, but it does work.
HimbeersaftLP I used an Axim x51v as well. It's nice to see that after all these years, Opera still works on it.
mzs112000 Indeed, I was very surprised of that too
HimbeersaftLP Does it still play TH-cam videos okay? Or log in to Facebook, and Twitter?
My grandfather had one of these, it was the coolest thing ever
I'll have to buy one of these one day, they look so fun to mess around with. I'm glad you made a video on Pocket PCs, there don't seem to be too many of decent quality on TH-cam. Small portable devices fascinate me for some reason, it's interesting to see little computers with not much memory run cool programs that do tasks that normally require a regular PC.
Holy crap I just watched LGR's old video on this thing!
Still gonna watch this tho, your style's different
Aw, man, time to dig out my HP IPAQ HX4700 for Pocket PC Month! I had no clue about the existence of Opera Mini on Pocket PCs, looks so smooth! I didn't know about Nevo, either. I recall looking for a program for my pocket PC years ago that did the same job as Nevo does. Nice video, and no, we don't think you're copying Clint. ;)
From what I've read, Nevo appears to be a special bundle with my model. I think I might give it a closer look with my next video. I tested it after filming this video, and it works surprisingly well.
HX4700? Wasn't that one of the best PocketPC's ever?
But the HX2490 has worse CPU (520MHz vs 624MHz, both are XScale PXA270) and worse screen (240x320 vs 480x640)
When I see some devices like these I think how could this be existed in a time where that it was not usual as noawadays. I remember watching some movie like Charlie's Angels (2000) and Little Black Book (2004), for instance. This devices were restricted for a specific public, and I got really impressive that somethings had already existed before this "boom" of smartphones have become so usual and necessary in present days.
I saw lgr before I saw you and this is the first video I'm watching ever from tour channel
We found one of these while me and my dad was walking, but it wasnt really that good, so we returned it to the owner once we found him.
I remember lusting after one of these back in the day, haha. How things change.
I remember using these in middle school. Best handheld computers for their time!
Very cool trip down memory lane. I had a very cool Sprint compact flash CF2031 3G data/voice card that I was able to add to my plan as $10 add-a-phone and with VPN software was able to remote into work and make network changes via telnet. This 2004 era device was the forefather to smartphones and tablets.
I remember when I bought the original Compaq iPaq Pocket PC 3650 from Sears back in August or September of 2000. In my last year of highschool, I remember using it to take notes and had a couple other programs through 2001 and up till early 2002 I remember that I had it.
That nostalgia though! I remember playing Monopoly on mine more than I actually used any productivity apps. What a time to be alive...
I remember my PDA - gloofish m800. It runs Windows CE 6.0 and i spent many many hours playing full port of Age of Empires
Why when I was young I never heard of this thing and I was out of highschool in 2003 but still was more into video games back then. This reminds me of the iPhone a lot with its docking and the name iPaq.
I had one of these in middle school... Quite a few years after they came out. Best yard sale find ever though.
I actually did write documents on it back in the day. I had so much more patience then.
I HAD an HP, pocket PC. I remember loving it. One day, I set itdown, forgot all about it, until right now!!! Forgot about it, for 20 years!!! I have zero recollection of what hgappened to that thing.... Man, I want one back...
Impressive Tech for the age =D
=o Hi!
I used one of these for a few years round 2004 and I really found it very useful for many of things I would use a smart phone for now. I do remember buying that camera which was kinda fun.
I wanted to purchase
sometimes i use my palmtop to play older games i used to play in the past xD
I got a pda through cereal box tops it was actually pretty cool.. crazy how times have changed so quickly
My dad had a similar PDA looking device that probably ran the same operating system at the time. He also had the iGPS-CF adaptor for aviation applications. I remember connecting it to the internet from the docking connector.
Ah, those (fond) memories... Never read as many (e)books as back when I had a little PocketPC from Asus, with that Microsoft Reader. Which eventually led me to buy a couple of e-readers later on. Quite a capable little machine , that was indeed. Cheers to more videos on that subject!
I was SO in love with my handspring visor...lol I had absolutely no use for it, but damn...I played with that thing every single day for months!
I remember well getting the original Compaq Ipaq for Christmas. Before she wrapped it, my partner at the time said I should check it out as it was quite expensive at launch. I'd explored practically everything it could do under half an hour, never did find a practical use for it in the end, although I was obviously a gluton for punishment as I also had a PocketPC phone a couple of years later, a Palm Treo phone (which I actually loved and really miss) and a Palm Tungsten T3. I still have the PocketPC phone, it'll start up but the batteries are dead and it bootloops a lot, and the Palm Tungsten T3 which actually still works perfectly to this day, which I mostly used with an early TomTom release before they made their own systems, this was great locally in the UK but hopeless further afield, getting lost in deepest darkest France was not my idea of fun.
You should do one on the Palm TX. Palm's last (or close to it) and most powerful PDA. Wifi, Bluetooth, Optional Tom Tom GPS Navigation, great little device. Also did full screen video, web, mp3 ect... The best thing about it was the strong third party and home brew software. Media players for more exotic file formats (back then exotic anyway), total UI overhauls, game emulators and more. The calendar and scheduling (especially with 3rd party apps but even without) offered fantastic customization.
Oh wow. Nostalgia. I bought an IPaq (with the modem) when i was completing my masters degree back in early 2000's. I remember playing Age of Empires on it all night (while plugged to a wall outlet). Those where the days. 😄
Actually, Windows tablet PCs in those days had a better handwriting recognition than f.i. the Note series from Samsung. I had an Acer Tablet PC, which did not only do handwriting recognition very well, but also speech to text. Way better than what we have on Google Assistant today. Don't know why they can't get this resolved much better on Android 15 years later.
Bruh that photosmart camera is worth so much on eBay
Dad found one of these on a college campus and we had a great deal of fun with it before finding the original owner and returning it. Unlike the model in your video, ours used a tiny hard disk drive. Also, at the time there was a website just for mobile computers that had low-resolution versions of popular videos. We put that HD to good use. Years later, I would get my first smartphone, the T-mobile Dash (HTC Excalibur), which had Windows Mobile 5. Windows Mobile/CE was very flexible, just like PC Windows. For instance, I could get free (slow) Internet by calling the school's aging dail-up gateway instead of paying T-mobile for data - likely a legacy feature from WinMo's palm computing days. The only thing it lacked was an app store - finding apps that worked was a challenge, but I had fun with it.
If you want to find more apps, be on the lookout for mobile software collection discs. I found one for Palm OS, so I bet there's some out there for Windows Mobile.
Ahhhh I remember a friend back than having such a device.
I loved it :) It even had the WMP Visualizer xD
Amazing video as usual, worth the wait.
5:38, vinesauce reference
Nice to meet you, Expand Dong
I would rather watch your videos than LGR's, so please never let that stop you
This is such a throwback
I have an unlocked copy of the 6945 iPaq which still works just fine and I am considering having as my primary phone since I didn't use it much when it was new due to not being able to take it to work due to the rules of my employer. My current phone is having charging problems which is giving me the blues and I am tired of the brand of phone I have anyway.
I also have a Dell pocket PC which was just a PC and was able to take photos with it, but could not get online without a special cable which connected to the computer.
Yeah but your videos are about a thousand times better than LGR'S keep up the awesome work
I remember using my pocket PC with a SNES emulator. It was funky to control, and I think I tried connecting something over bluetooth like a keyboard or controller but it wouldn't work. So I played SNES games with the funky controls of the dell axim and got over it. Also i'm not sure how many people did this but I remember buying games that came with windows mobile versions.
There even was a youtube app and google maps app for windows mobile. I used that youtube app so often and would like to experience it again for nostalgia, but it doesn't work anymore unfortunately.
This may be due to certificate issues and codec support, as TH-cam, for example, no longer supports VP8. VP9 and MPEG4 are still supported. The TH-cam mobile website no longer supports Android 2.3, so any older devices are unlikely to support that either.
My last and favorite PocketPC. I loved that thing!
Edited: Mine last model was an HP h4150. Still, Pocket Pcs were awesome.
Compaq also had a desktop line of Windows PCs called 'iPaqs.' I was a PC tech a long time ago (2000-2001) and I unboxed about 200 of them (and heavy 19" Samsung CRTs), and put Windows 98 images on them via Ghost one summer. Good times. You're lucky that iPaq has USB. Most of our PDAs back then were DB9 serial, including my Palm IIIc. :-)
Great video! I didn't even KNOW we had these in 2003!
I had such a HP thing bought 2004.
I mainly used it for car navigation with some version of Navigon running on it.
You had to copy your planned route to the SD- or CF-Card (mine had both), because they had capacities measured in KB instead of GB.
*Cant be a windows without bonzi*
I had that. Used it in high school. It was pretty awesome.
2:40 At least on the rx3700 series (I had a rx3715 back in the day), the same left indicator that lights up for Bluetooth, also flashes green when programs told Windows Mobile to "vibrate" the device.
3:34 I remembered that ActiveSync would automatically open and sync when I docked my rx3715 to the NEC PC I had at the time.
3:45 I just remembered, there was a program called "MyMobiler" which allowed the PDA display to be viewed and interacted with on the PC. That came in pretty handy as I didn't need to take my hands off of the keyboard and mouse.
3:49 There was a program called "eXPerience" that was a custom launcher for WM2003SE that provided a WinXP style screen, though it didn't replace the Today screen like with the HP launcher on the rx series, but instead provided a Today item to access it from there.
6:45 I *very much* remember using that on mine.
7:44 I remember having a cracked copy of Opera Mobile (I think it was version 8, and Opera wasn't selling any more licences for that version at the time) installed.
Damn my childhood...time really flies FAST
A whole month dedicated to pocket pcs ? Great idea since there's not a lot of videos of these things, you should get a PPC 2000 / 2002 as well !
Wow! how did I not find this channel earlier! subbed
Wow, blast from the past. I worked in Microsoft's Windows CE group from 1997 through 2005 or so. I was on the documentation team, and wrote the device driver documentation for the platform. We (Microsoft) didn't have anything to do with the hardware that Compaq, HP, and the rest of the OEMs released. We, as was Microsoft's way at the time, just made the OS. Nevertheless, there was always a fair amount of communication with those OEMs, such that every new mobile device that hit the market pretty much constituted a new release/revision of the OS. Still, it was always exciting when a new device would finally hit the market, as the OEM would send us hardware so everybody in the group got a free one as a "ship gift". As the team expanded, that got more expensive so eventually the freebies stopped. Time passed. The team and the OS got rebranded a few times, and everything in mobile technology converged into phones. The end of time time there was just at the start of the Windows Phone era, before I moved on to other opportunities. Still, we had a lot of fun in Windows CE, and doing device driver documentation was about as close to working on the "bare metal" as anything at Microsoft was going to get, which I enjoyed. Good times!
dang, still remember exactly using the same PDA at the 1st day work at that time...:)
Bonzi Buddy on the thumbnail again!
I had the iPAQ 2210... Think it's identical and maybe just a localised version.
Man... I had Age of Empires on it. You would be amazed at how well that plays on it!!!
The Science Elf - just a note, those PDAs started becoming smartphones when microsoft added "phone edition" to the PDAs. like "Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition" - I had one in 2006, called audiovox 6600, it was one year before the first iphone was launched -- and it was a lot better "on average" than the iphone (and to its(iphone) credit, it was the first one to popularize a "touch UI")
haha nothing like watching a video and discovering your own comment from 3 years ago 🙂
2:54 how can a Bluetooth signal be too strong? 🤔
Henning Gu good question on my model I can’t even get it to connect to anything
iphone can’t even share files with Bluetooth on other devices
@@therealmr.incredible3179 uP
My father handed down a Palm m515, and before that, a Palm IIIx to me a long time ago. I really liked them at the time.
I remember having one when i was 11, still got it somewhere.
I love your vids! Keep it up!!
Good stuff. I really enjoy these videos!
I liked my pocket pc's running various windows operating systems, but preferred my Palm OS devices. I still carry a Treo along with my Android smartphone. There are too many databases and apps for the Palm that I wouldn't want to do without. Like the Treo, I liked the ability on the Pocket PC's to let you easily swap the battery.
I used to have it in the 2000s, it was so cool in high school, haha.
Well, you beat Clint to the punch on the SDIO camera.
I still occasionally use my HP IPAQ from 2003. Got it 2 years ago from a car boot sale for a fiver.
Opera Mini actually takes the website, converts and optimizes it for the browser, that's why it did pass the assets test. It also saves mobile data that way v:
This thing in 2003. Wow am impressed!
I had a Dell Axim and LOVED IT!
I have these and tonnes of downloaded games and emulators . Fun back then.
I used to be absolutely obsessed with PDAs back in the day. I was hot shit with my HP hx4700.