Classic Tech: Compaq iPAQ H3600 in 2020
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- The late 1990s/early 2000s were an interesting time for technology. We slowly transitioned away from bulky laptops, and cell phones were paving the way to their current ubiquity. Eventually, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and cell phones merged to give us the devices we keep in our pockets, that essentially give us access to all of humanity's collective knowledge.
In this video, I take a look at Compaq's (HP) iPAQ 3600 series, which was their first color iPAQ, running Pocket PC 2002, an earlier version of Windows Mobile that we saw on phones such as the Sprint PPC 6700, and the HTC Mogul. While it's no Palm Pilot, I never personally owned one, so this was my first foray into the PDA realm.
The video is an exercise in patience as this device is on its last legs and requires me to apply pressure to parts of the screen for it to display normally. I hope to find some more old tech that I personally used and still have in storage as it's pretty fun to uncover relics of the past, without which we couldn't be where we are today!
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For the time, this was incredible. I was selling them in a computer store and they were flying off the shelf.
It’s amazing how such technology which was among the most advanced at that time looks so crude and outdated today when compared to today’s tablets and phones
I remember when I bought this in 2000, it didn't have any built in way of connecting to the internet, however I think there was an optional expansion sleeve that you could buy that would allow you to connect it to Ethernet or dialup. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth didn't really exist yet in 2000.
This was amazing technology at the time. Could do basically everything an iPhone does 10 years earlier (just not in a slick and integrated way)
That PDA, was my first exposure to mobile devices of any kind... around 20 years ago when this came out. My, from this, to my start in the iOS when i got the 32 gb iPod Touch 9-10 years ago, and now to today: iPhone XS, iPad Pro 11 in, and Apple Watch all in use. So much times have changed!!
I remember buying this same model of pda back in July of 2000. I then used it during my last couple of years in high school until I graduated in 2002. I think I then remember trading it in for a Windows XP laptop from HP in Summer of 2002.
*nostalgia seeping intensifies*
Haha... I had the same device. I used the infrared connection to connect to my Siemens phone. Damn was that slow.
I found mine in the basement now in 2021)
It was forgotten there... and i looked for videos about it, now when i found it)
And of course i am planning to trow it away...
You can also start a Tech channel. You are also a good tech reviewer like you are good Walker !
Thanks for the kind words!
I just started using my dad's H3900 to see how it works, How do you upload games and what kind of games would work?
My works great it still has about 6h-7h of battery and no lag.
My old at&t razor phone was also a modem 🤔 2005 ish
I think you need to tear it down so we can see the insides
The monochrome iPAQ H3100 series came after the color H3600 series, not before it.
Hmm I did that based on Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPAQ
What the is daignosis work
i agree
nice narration, how long did it take to prepare the script?
My first PDA was the T-mobile (HTC) wizard. That was a time when mobile data (GPRS, look it up) was charged by the MB!
Took a couple hours to write up. Wow the HTC Wizard is impressive, definitely groundbreaking! I don't recall what my data quota was back in the day but do know that my texts/call minutes were very limited... My first "smart" phone was Sprint's PPC-6700 (also HTC, I think the Apache).
Tengo uno pero nose como configurarlo al español me pueden ayudar...soy de mexico
I blew $500 on this when they first came out, I was bout 20. I thought I was gonna be high tech.
It turned out to be a $500 paperweight. Totally unusable. Did nothing. Short battery life. No wireless internet service. The stylus was inaccurate. Almost impossible to find a computer and cradle connection device that would support it because you needed to connect to a real computer to upload apps or pictures. Internet only worked if you were connected to said computer.
Anytime you turned off the main power switch, you lost all data. All of it. Total garbage unit.
That tech aged as bad as that orange on the left...
I still have my PDA. I upgraded to one that was a phone. Useless now
I still use it