HP iPAQ RX1955: The 2005 Windows Pocket PC Experience
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ค. 2018
- Revisiting my first PDA that I bought in my college days! Word processing, MP3 and WMV playback, and internet access over wi-fi all in one handheld device, wooow. And hey, it's not a bad gaming device either.
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If anyone needs the RX1950-series software disc, here's an archive for ya:
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You shown the Windowws key , its clearly readable!
But,can it run CRYSIS?
LGR, you're talking so much of this. This video is too annoying. You're chao of sonic, dislike and -1 subscrise.
Fu
The “WiFi certified b”on the box, is because I certified this device personally working for the WiFi alliance in 2003 at Agilent Technology in Santa Clara!! Good times!!
Pete S. The Wi-Fi Alliance has a whole test plan , that’s based on each type of WiFi, from 802.11b on up. Most of these tests are automated now but back when I did them, they were still done by hand. Basically an engineer from the company for the device would spend the day with me, and we’d go through, testing throughout, using different security types, and testing against “reference” products in the test bed. We’d test ad how mode, we checked, with traces, to make sure the packets were showing all the right stuff, like data rates available.. just a bunch of different things. It was a cool gig, and I met a lot of people that way. I was actually able to jump over to a
Start up, called Airgo Networks, and they were doing MIMO, which ended up being the basis for 802.11N, and I was able to ride that ship all the way until we got bought up by Qualcomm in 2006, and I was able to be an engineer at Qualcomm for a few years. Pretty awesome
Man I'm Jealous, I used to play space invaders, Astroids and Atari's first Console 🤗
I can show off also 😂
Seeing people directly involved with the history of my industry brings me so much joy. We are truly lucky that computing is such a young discipline.
shut up nerd
@@Smokingonthatmeanasweed We built the internet you're using to post this ridiculous comment. Face it, nerd. We won.
The PDA craze never died out, we simply replaced them with smart phones and tablets.
I thought the same at the time too. It’s almost like you don’t even need a desktop/laptop. Almost.
Indeed, PDA succeed when combining with a phone, then become the smartphone
@William S I have high end laptop and desktop, definitely tablets can't hold a candle to them. Still, many people I know use PCs for basic purposes; browsing, media consumption, communications, etc., and probably would be just fine with a tablet and/or smartphone.
@@dondonMMD I agree.
They are upgrades PDAs
I was in 4th grade in 2005 and actually won a PDA from a raffle. I used the shit out of that thing. My dad taught me how to do everything for it. I used it mainly for mp3s, games, and e-mailing my parents when I got home from school. My dad also would record little messages on it for me periodically. It was lovely
4th grade??? LOL I WAS ALREADY 18 by then!
Sounds likemyou have an excellent fwmily
@@iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS i have an excellent Dad, at the very least lol
@@SupremeLeader966ok
its crazy how advanced technology has become in less than 15 years
we'll have time travel in the next.
A Dedicated Solitaire button? Now that's something we need back in our devices. Far more useful than a dedicated Bixby button.
what the fuck is a bixby? is that bilbo's snazzy cousin?
That would be awesome but no. Yet another digital assistant from Samsung, with a dedicated button on the Note 8 and a couple other Samsung phones. The button is not easily reprogrammed, so if you prefer Google, good luck...
The button can be reprogrammed using bxActions, which has improved considerably since it first came out. I have mine set to open up Google Assistant (hold), ringer/mute switch (press), last app (double-press when unlocked), and play-pause (double-press when locked). It even lets you remap the volume buttons though I haven't felt like doing that.
With a solitaire app and bxActions you can actually have a dedicated solitaire key on your Samsung if you wanted haha
Bixby can BURN IN HELL!
I have Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and I HATE, HATE with PASSION that... thing.
On top of that, Samsung goes out of their way to patch it, so that apps that try to remap that cancerous feature into something the USER WANTS, will not work. Why is it that, when I buy something, it is such a novel concept to NOT add features that make me want to trash the damn thing?
Today's smartphone should be called pocket PC. Phone is only a minor function nowdays.
Anas Takiyudin it's closer to a smart pocket watch
Try edit a word file without seeing 10 ads or being conned into buying cloud storage on today’s smart phone.
your right any more kids use there phone for all there gaming and or watching tv ... the cell is just a glorfied pc
Joseph C Bugajski Most mobile games, not ALL.
@@kospencer1 i can. people just don't know how to get the most out of their devices.
duke voice :
*"Network: Balls."*
Omg I had one of these in high school. got it at comp usa for my bday. Overclocked it (yes you could do this). and ran super nintendo emu on it.
and yes, it ran doom. heck even quake
Heffboom Konijn did you use a keyboard to game? Dead curious how well that would actually work.
@Pew Maya What??
Pew Maya tru
**E1M1 music starts playing**
You absolute madman
A 19 year old Clint wearing a Mr Rodgers shirt is all I’ve ever wanted apparently.
All good in the hood ;) lol
Such a gangster
this whole fucking thread hahahahaha
Same, dat face tho
486 likes, Nice!!
I had an older iPAQ, back before the merger and they were still a Compaq product... I didn't want one, somebody acquired my credit card information and ordered like eight of them at $400 each. So I called the bank and said "hold up!!" ... thankfully the bank was pretty cool about the situation and reversed the charges within two weeks or so and everything was fine... Then about a week or so after that, an iPaq 3765 arrives on my doorstep. Apparently the guy that ordered it somehow used my "billing address" for one of the shipments... and I ended up with one of them. I fully intended to call the bank and tell them... but then I got high or drunk or whatever... I was in my mid-20s at the time... and I promptly forgot about it... it sat on the corner of my desk piled under various papers and shit for a good year or so... never even used it. Eventually sold it to a co-worker for $250... So, the moral of the story is that being the victim of identity theft sometimes has a silver lining.
Jason me too, I also had the Compaq ipaq pocket PC 3650 that I remember buying in August of 2000. I used it some during my last year of highschool in 2001 to 2002. I think by mid 2002, I sold it and got a new hp laptop.
Haha, same here
Oh yeah sorry about that, mid 2000s me was a bit less scrupulous with strangers credit card info than I maybe should've been I guess. Eh, we can laugh about it now though right? ❤
Had someone hack my Microsoft account and purchase a bunch of games with my Visa on the account itself, Visa reversed the charges and all the games were kept. Yep definitely some silver linings.
This story was wild from start to finish
Wow, young LGR must have been listening to Staind Break The Cycle too much by the grudge look on his face. LGR nowadays looks happy and wonderful.
2005 : Hey wow, that was a pretty cool gadget. . .
2019 : Hey, look at my fancy TV remote that i got right now.
That nokia .amr...
2037 : My Phone can morph into a Car, and into a PC
@@Emu- 2122:. Check out my new PC. It is connected to my brain, and I can think of things to do, and it'll happen in a cinch.
1:01 A young man, full of dreams and hopes~
hehehe
I mean, id settle for a succesful youtube chanel about my passion(s) that also paid the bills. Millenials mightve gotten fucked, but us zoomers will swallow
keplerk Yes this exactly model
Looking 13 years back into the past this is a funny little gadget which filled a hole when there wasn’t any midrange device that could fit camera, MP3/media player and phone under the same screen. As LGR stated this was just a stepping stone towards more advanced technology but nevertheless showed how capable mobile devices were at that point.
I don't know if you could call it a mid-range device exactly but such things absolutely existed back then such as this: phonedb.net/index.php?m=device&id=285&c=samsung_sch-i730
The SCH-i730 which was a business class PDAphone/smartphone also made back in 2005, it has considerably better specs than this pda and the only reason it didn't have a camera as well is because businesses at the time didn't like the idea of people wandering around everywhere with cameras, some preproduction i730s were even shown with a built-in 1.3-megapixel camera, so they fully intended to put one in it but at some point late in the design phase decided to just put a cover over that spot instead.
Seeing MSN always makes me feel old.
That feeling/moment when you’ve been watching a TH-camr for years thinking you’ve been subscribed but you never was but indeed do subscribe. Shocked that you realized how you always thought you were subscribed to begin with!!
C'mon Clint, don't lie to us. We all know you didn't want that leather pouch for that Pocket PC. You wanted it to be *Wood Grain* lol
He was and stupid take it easy man. 😁✌
Lol his name is Clint?
@@LilLeanCuisine yeah. Clint Eastwood.
@@s.moorefilms3760 Clint Basinger*
Thank you. I have had a little plastic fake SD card in my cupboard for over a decade. Now I know where it came from - my iPAQ!
The latest Dell Precision laptops even have such plastic cards.
It reminds me of the fake GBA Game Pak the DS Lite included.
Unfortunately I think lost my fake sd card and cf card for my dell axim 51v (which can be seen in the video lmao) but I still have them all for both of mine ipaq hx4700 and it's disappointing brother ipaq 214. Somebody stole the dummy card from my first budget pda I bought the ipaq rz1710 because they though it was real, lmao.
Oh man. This thing bring memories. I bought one as a navigation system, with a external gps antenna. It worked so well that in my enthusiasm I threw it out of the window.🙈
I still have the one I bought for my Palm PDA. I need a Horders intervention.
Is that a sarcasm?
@@bunnydexter7178 pretty likely. They required an external GPS antenna and it took 15-20 minutes (!) to get an initial GPS fix. You would sit in your car, stare at the screen and wonder whether the app had frozen, which it sometimes did. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
In The second half of the 2000s, there really was a technology boom. Like nothing we had ever seen before
Yah, we went from World ending Y2K to major jumps in everything.
Modern smartphone are kinda cool and all but do they have a dedicated Solitaire button? Now we're talking ^_^ I found this nostalgic to watch since I was growing up in the mid 2000s and always wanted a Pocket PC device but was too young to have one. Looking back now, I'm sure this was a lot of fun to tinker around with back then. I love this!
James Rowe I know I figured that was possible but in 2005 I'm sure that would have been a pretty unique feature for the time.
Yeah can relate, my dad had one that he wrote software for and I remember playing around with it.
btw, Cute profile pic :3
PrussianKamikaze I remember using a PDA device very similar to this that my older brother owned; it featured an animation software which, when I was 8, I thought that was the best thing ever.
Thank you! ♥️
Same here! I remember lusting over these in Radio Shack. Oh, memories.
I remember having a PDA "back in the day"but for the life of me I cannot remember which one it was :(
I had a Dell pocket PC back in 2005. It was awesome. It was my mp3 player and gaming station. It had DOOM on it, a nice NES, SNES and Genesis emulator. My teacher was so impressed when he saw me playing Mike Tysons punch out he went out and bought one.
"They've never stopped giving away free months to anything that moves." That tickled me way more than it should have, lol.
You’ve always been such a stud! It’s crazy how we forget about the phones we’ve had. I remember upgrading to(and LOVING) the Palm Centro! For a pre iPhone world it was amazing! Hope you had a wonderful weekend, handsome!!
Early 2000s were lawless
Ikr? The friggin 3rd party hardware was insane with stuff like this. As a (very nerdy) kid I would flip through catalogs just to marvel at the insanity that was a mobile printer for a digital camera or a mouse for a palm pilot
Nice profile picture!
LGR taking selfies before it was cool.
i was taking photos of myself way back in 2001. lol and term sefie does my nut in! :P
I think I've just foud my favorite channel. How come this was not recommended to my sooner.
I remmber my friend in college had one of this in 2008 or something and though I was a palm os fan back then, it was the coolest PDA I had ever seen.
These videos are so chilled. Love old tech!
2005: IPAQ
Years later
IPAD
Nightcore Tuner 2001: IPOD
Years later
IPAQ
I said the same!
@@johanns7302 Actually the first iPAQ was from 2000
If it really was from 2005 then it would be right when the iPhone started production
2046: Iranoutofideas: shit
those were the days, used to go nuts for these! i owned 2 budget hp pocket pc's // an hp jornada running CE, and the dell axim - had the ipaq (h5550) years later that was 1 of the most sought after ppc's in it's day no joke - running AIM on that thing under the covers with the status lights blinking was pure handheld bliss :)))
This video took a completely different direction than expected. Great overall, I'm tempted to grab one for myself.
That bubble breaker is like my entire childhood memory. All I remember is playing the crap out of my dad's PDA.
Audible won't stop bugging you even when you turn back over a decade and a half.
they were around even in 1997
Oh god, I still have my rx1955 and I kinda still have fond memories of it. Amazingly it still works, even the battery! And I've played games and watched tons of movies on it back in the day. Actually, I was so nostalgic about gaming on windows mobile, that I bought myself a Dell Axim x51v in 2017, which is basically the fastest PDA ever made for those old windows mobile versions.
P.S. Pretty much ALL PDAs had amazingly good microphone system as well as way overpowered output. I was able to drive small car speakers directly with my PDA (a killer feature on beach parties back in the day).
I Had a windows phone back in 2006, my last year at high school. I remember doing excel sheets as homework assignments on it en route to and from school. Everyone was sooo jealous at the time, nobody had touch screen device! Oh, and I still have Hotmail.
I remember when I was using it in the bus so many people was curious, the time when it's was a luxury device I love this time
To be fair, you'd start getting people on the bus curious again - because those have become such uncommon devices in this era.
Funny to see you being nostalgic over Windows mobile. 4 months ago I still used it daily on the m3 scanners from my company.
Seven of Jean. In Germany they are being used almost in every bar code scanner.
I love this video cause this little ipaq is what Stalkers PDA model is based on. This is just something I'd like to own for that reason alone.
Get out of here stalker
I’m as old as this thing, and thankfully I can say I’m still being supported.
I still remember the iPAQ rx3715 I used to have in the late 2000s. I couldn't do everything I wanted, as it was Windows Mobile 2003 SE, and some of the apps I really wanted required WM 5.
As part of the mobile version of "HP Image Zone" that was included on the device, there was a hidden copy of "Pocket Painter", which was paid software, and I couldn't get paid software at the time due to the lack of a debit card (I was a kid back then, otherwise I would have probably been able to afford a HTC touch diamond pro to use instead). I ended up adding a shortcut to that app into the WM main menu.
There was an app called "youtubeplay* that was the closest thing to an official TH-cam app, but it would stop getting updated after a whole, so I couldn't watch videos on it. From what I remember, the app didn't support features only available to those who were signed in, but that wasn't a problem for me as TH-cam didn't have a cojntry-specific guide for the country I lived in, at the time, so they were using the US age restrictions, so I couldn't have an account at the time.
Oh yeah, not to mention, I also had a ton of CEBeans applications in a folder on the SD card. They were so compatible, being able to run on devices running software as old as Pocket PC 2000, from what I remember.
Eventually, I ended up losing it in a plane on a flight home, and as such, I was able to convince my parents to get me something that would eventually lead me to my modern-day phone.
7:24 The rx3700 series had the IRdA transceiver on the top, and shipped with "Nevo Home Control" software preloaded.
7:56 It didn't even have Sprite Backup preloaded? It was, on the rx3700 series, but probably only because that series shipped with Windows Mobile 2003 SE, based on Windows CE 4.21, so it ran from RAM.
Also, fun fact: The Pocket PC "Bubble Breaker" (or "Jawbreaker" on PPC 2000-2003SE) was a licenced rebrand of "Bublets" by "Oopdreams Software".
Oh yeah WM 2003se was great but in late 2000s less and less programs supported it fortunately you could flash either official or unofficial rom on most popular devices, which is exactly what I did on my hx4700. I never really flashed the official wm5 which run like crap anyway on that pda because of the flash chip they used (fast at reading, but slow at writing, so os would throttle cpu every now and then to catch up after you delete bunch of files).
I just went straight for unoficial wm6 rom first in 2007 not long after I got the device and in following years I flashed lots of roms most were wm6.1 (which is the best winmo they ever made) I flashed wm6.5 too which sucks dick, as it tries to be like smartphones it was also the last version of wm before ms pulled plug on it. I even got a minimal debian work on hx4700 and I don't mean emulated one from windows mobile, the bootloader is replaced and it loads from an sd card and it freaking works I have that on my other hx4700 the original one I bought in 2007.
On my other hx4700 I have my own wm6.1 rom that I made in 2013 and it kicks ass, it works fast and it looks really good also I removed many crappy built in programs to free space and bloat which I then used to put in the actual programs I use straight into rom, like resco explorer, pocket player, resco image viewer 6.1, pocket plus, wk task .. all of course preconfigured to the way I like it because I made registry tweaks, of course I made icons prettier too and the file type icons as well.
I remember using youtubeplay as well, it worked pretty well, until youtube decided to update codecs and they did that like a zillion times, so now not even htc hd2 (another winmo device I have) youtube player works or the special addon for TCPMP, which was one of the best video players they made for pocket pc. Btw gogole did make an official
youtube app for windows but it worked like crap unlike youtubeplay or tcpmp that played video smoothly the official app played them at choppy 10fps and it did the same on 1ghz htc hd2 which had the best youtube app I have ever seen on windows mobile. Also there was no way to make the video to fit the entire screen, I think google did this on purpose to make you want to get an android at the time when wm was still a thing supported by ms.
The windows mobile had all sorts of games in addition to some already shown, it had worms age of empires (complete ports) and as well as many own original games that were way more fun than any of smartphone free games that are popular, except maybe some more advanced paid games such as worms and prince of Persia, but the problem are controls, Clint is complaining about the dpad and buttons but these are heck alot better than using the touch screen for everything.
It was early 2000s
19 Years old Clint looks so angsty and cute. I would totally go full manther for young Clint.
This brings back memories. My dad had one that he used, I remember playing games on it as a kid with him, he had tetris, solitarie and that bubble game. it was so fun, that thing was amazing to me back then, it was like looking at the newest IPAD
Nice little thing! I had a Palm PDA at that time that could most of the things the Ipac could. I used it a lot. Nice video!
I want Microsoft to take another crack at a hand held windows...
Sadly long dead. I mean another-another crack haha
Windows phone is crap. Windows Mobile 6.1 is better even now.
I just want something new on new hardware with software support...
Scerttle no they are busy with making the xbitch scorpion but they have ported all their PowerPoint software from Windows to Android including their sexy robot.
The GPD pocket, a clamshell tablet with 8gb of ram and an intel x7-z8750 cpu, running full windows 10.
I was born in 2002, this makes me wish I was born in like 1990 or something. I just really love old devices like this and it makes me think about the stuff that I have now, such as my s10+ and how I should really be happy with it.
You are right. Technology, actually, does not give you happiness, it depends on your state of mind and level of satisfaction. There is an ancient Indian saying: "A person who is not satisfied with what he has, will not be satisfied even if given the entire universe"! The greed of human beings ...!
My first "smartphone" was an HTC with windows mobile 6. I thought I was a baller, nobody I knew had a windows phone. Then I moved over to a blackberry, then my nokia lumia which was one of my favorite smartphones. Aside from the lack of apps then, I loved windows mobile and its PC compatibility.
Same
I still have my Xda Wallaby, I changed the rom some years back. What a machine it was in 2002, f-ing loved it!
My first cell phone was an old Windows Mobile phone with a full keyboard, it was about an inch thick and never fit in my skinny jeans back in 7th grade, I remember impressing my friends with the fact that my phone could play DOOM and their's couldnt!
Berke Beidler nokia series 60 also was great smartphones, and could run doom and many emulators and soft, i miss them. Charge coulpe of batteries and you're ready to school)
Berke Beidler That's really impressive because I can play doom on my phone without some sort of Bluetooth gadget and that will alert the teacher I'm not learning.
I miss being able to change my chargeable battery
Same
I can do it with my 2016 Samsung Galaxy j3 Luna pro
I've got a LG V20 which has a swappable battery while still maintaining a premium build quality.
and I miss my wife
@@feminist098 damn
Damn, thanks for the memories. My first PDA was Casio Cassiopea BE-300 and then I had iPAQ 1940...such great memories
Dang bro, now I know why your channel is so appealing to me, we were born in the same generation with the same tastes.
I still remember lugging my Core 2 Duo laptop from 2008 to class to take notes. I always used to play games instead of doing my work.
Man, this is the kind of stuff I wanted when I was a kid... I did get a digital camera in 2006, but that was pretty much it :/
I got my first digital camera in 2005, and my first mp3 player the following year.
I'm hoping I can get my 1st digital camera by Christmas this year. I also already own an MP3 player and I've had it since August 2021.
@@lovelydolltime8006 no more having to wait to get film developed at the store
I want this little beauty to come back! The aesthetics of this thing are perfect. It's still quite cool in its own way. This thing should be rereleased today with more powerful internals.
Yes world!
Im so glad discovering this channel...
I would be interested in a video about the trend of umpc, those uber expensive handheld computers with the tiny full Windows Vista running on 1 GB of RAM, Celeron, and a slow 1.8 drive, all while getting only a few hours of battery life. Sony, Samsung, and new company OQO came out with these, they bombed.
I have both the OQO model 01 and model 02 and I love them, I just wish the battery life had been better. I'm still searching for a good replacement.
Paul Kostrzewa check GPD Win.
I remember they had them on the circuit city website but not in stores
Heck, I still want one lol.
Ah,a new LGR thing
This takes me back! I switched from a Palm OS Sony Clie to a Dell PPC around the same time. It was definitely a promising bit of hardware but ultimately fell short because it wasn't as mature a productivity tool as the other platforms and didn't make up for it with its wider range of functions like game emulation (at least for me). I would have been better off just upgrading to one of the new color palms until I got my first BlackBerry Perl in 2008. Now that was an awesome mobile device.
Wow. My mom had one of these around 2005 when i was in high school and used it a lot for work. I’m watching this on my iPad Pro and it really makes me nostalgic, but also really makes me appreciate how far we’ve really come with this type of tech.
I have a Lenovo tablet but every time i use my phone wifi on it, it gives me a weird wifi headache. Do you experience wifi headache with your ipad? Do you use a router for it or a phone wifi?
Woah all the pixels in HD
Long story short, as a dedicated whiskey drinker, I splurged and drank just 4 beers last night, not realizing they would dehydrate the hell out of me. So, as I lay on my couch with a very unexpected migraine ridden hangover, this video and many others from you are seriously a happy filled oasis in my rather shitty day. Thanks Clint.
drink some water mane., 1 month later. drink some water mane
Yeezy westy Ha, thanks. I drank soooo much water.
Kenneth James I sooooo did. It was wonderful at the time...
So you are a dedicated whiskey drinker? And four beers did you up? Had ypu already been hitting the whiskey? Because the cool thing about beer is that is mostly water. You really have to be hitting it hard to get dehydrated. But mixing the two can really put you down.
@@metamorphicorder I can generally enjoy a few glasses of straight whiskey and it's a very mild, mellow buzz, but the carbonation in beer is what makes the alcohol hit your blood stream quickly and messes you up off a much smaller amount. In this case however, I was in a way mixing the two because the beer of choice was "Dragon's Milk" which is a delicious yet highly potent bourbon barrel beer.
I greatly underestimated it's power lol. It was not a good day.
wonderful memories from 15 year ago! thank you!
During this era I was a huge Palm nerd. I was in middle school at the time, roughly 2005-2007. I believe I had three different models over the course of those years. A Zire 22, a Tungsten, and a TX iiirc. The iPhone wasn’t out yet. The Palm operating system was ahead of its time. Allowing for games, music playback, basic web browsing, and video playback to a degree. I had convinced other kids my age to ask for Palm Pilot’s for Christmas during that time, to the bewilderment of their parents! Hell it even had an App Store several years before Apple introduced theirs. But then in 2008 the iPhone and iPod touch were both prevalent and palm was slowly but surely history soon after that. I would like to play with one again for nostalgias sake.
Worms Armageddon for this platform was super amazing.
dedicated solitaire button... hell yeah!!!
Ahhh-man, this is bringing back fond memories! I Remember typing whole papers during my train commute to college. I had the ipaq 3630, 3800, 5550 and HX4700, and loved all of them. The only thing that I felt was missing was mobile internet access, so the moment the HTC PPCs came out I upgraded. I had noticed though, that the more popular PocketPC/WINCE became as more phones adopted the OS, the more watered-down it became as Microsoft removed previously available features.
this was a blast from the past, I remember wanting this back in the day
When you said “most of them look pretty ugly” and showed that one iPaq. I have that one, with carrying case and dock. Was a gift in like 2008/9
Stephanie Yung right?! Plus it included a compact flash slot and SD card. Here is a picture of mine: imgur.com/gallery/Cx4l2eF
I have my iPAQ somewhere. I don't remember what year it was, probably around 2004. Back then, it's capabilities were the the most amazing thing to me and I modded the hell out of the software 😁.
My very first phone, an O2 XDA II (HTC Himalaya), is a hand-me-down from my dad and was previously a company provided business PDA. It was given to me in 2008 but I wasn't given a SIM card until 2010. It was an interesting experience. I used it...like how I use my smartphone today minus anything internet related since it didn't have Wi-Fi. Notes, reminders, calendar, calls, texts, music--even as a camera. I still have those "amazing" 640 x 480 photos and QVGA videos saved in my PC today.
But the most interesting bit is that since it is running Windows Mobile 2003 and primarily runs on a RAMDisk system, I had to make sure the battery is kept charged or else it will go amnesia and I have to set up the device all over again. Good thing I have a 1GB SD card to store all my stuff.
Today I still have it but I need to find a replacement ActiveSync port since it broke off as well as a new battery.
This is the LGR video that got me into the channel. I used to have this device! It was kinda not terrible for its time. :D
I simply LOVE the visible track of the flow of technology/...utterly fascinating
Although, my hearing is just fine I enjoy your subtitles man! They're very descriptive.
Jonathankyle Brooks thanks for letting me know!
Ive nerver turned on subs before thats great! Didnt realise he did that so much effort!
Man this brings back warm and fuzzy feelings. I loved my Zire 31 and later my TX (although it became outdated pretty quickly with the advent of the iPhone). PDAs hold a special place in my heart
They didn't really become outdated because iPhone that appealed to typical dumb users because it's simplicity, but because everyone including MS copied the iPhone so now we are stuck with tasteless, because that's all what is on market now. Boring ass devices with no style that all look the same, both software and hardware perspective, too simplistic for me. I still use my beloved hx4700.
Suddenly my mind brought me way back to 2006. Was a young man tweaking this thing to connect to any wifi available. Thanks LGR.
My first PDA was a Cassiopeia E-100 back in 1999 with the MIPS VR4121 processor...loved that thing!! Nice Video
I almost bought one until I saw the Psion on sale, don't know if I made a mistake?
Still got my original iPAQ RX1955 =D Got mine with a GPS cradle. I still use it with TomTom from time to time. Great video =D
I was around 10 when I got a Pocket PC 1910 model, still have it, to see how touch screen portables have evolved over the years is incredible, I still sometimes pull out my Pocket PC, I had tons of game boy emulators and games on it, all the kids were jealous.
Fhanks for bringing those sweet memories 😍
I never had one of those back in the day but I think I'd have been really happy with it, specially with the music and web browsing.
13:06 - Network named "Balls"?
Ligma
@@luminumlx2604 u wut m8
Lmaooooooooooooo!! Great catch and I’m laughing 10 months after you originally posted this. Lol
@@luminumlx2604 whats ligma
@@austrinivanderfanly745 ligma balls
You missed the best game in pocket PC which was Age of Empires. Wish it was ported to Android as I'd still play it.
I had a HP iPaq H1940 back in the day along with various other pocket Pcs but I kept that one right until I got my first smartphone in 2008 with the HTC Touch diamond. I remember when the iPod touch came out and I didn't see what it did that this didn't do years before and I stuck with Windows mobile right until the HTC HD2 cause with Windows phone 7 I saw the writing on the wall and moved to Android on that same device. You should definitely do more of these reviews.
Angelito Posse Oh, the Age of Empire I, the full game. And what type of games do we get with our 100 times more powerful smartphines?
konstantin lozev micro transaction empires?
We used to have one from 2003, and with an external module it became a GPS navigation system. I was a kid back then and I only remember enjoying it for the Bubble breaker game
Still remember using this in the middle of the class for taking notes in college.....awesome & painfull at the same time lol......
-_- audible existed back them TOO? ...
Oh yeah, its been around for a while: th-cam.com/video/nAFIsPX3_3A/w-d-xo.html
It’s Good in the Hood... such an innocent face
Wow that battery holding charge is seriously impressive
I use to have one in the. Mid 2000s and mine was an HP Ipaq with little stereo speakers at the bottom I wish I could remember the model number. Love your videos buddy keep up the great work.
Major props for the mention of Prison Break. That's still one of my favorite shows of all time.
You know, at least it didn't come loaded with comic sans as a font.
I see that as a negative, really.
OMG, the moment you played a video, I was like... "Man, I remember converting episodes of Prison Break and watching them in school", and then you said the same thing! I guess you and I had similar experiences on this device! Not sure if you played the game "Bust 'em", but this was the best game EVER!
Thanks for the review of the Windows Mobile. I was working 5 years as a Windows Mobile developer. This device is really not a gaming console, true, but as a book reader, it was nice, and the screen is a sort of TFT, that is visible even in direct sunlight, as I remember. Working with files was good, much better than on Palm PDAs, and still better than now on iPhones, he-he. But my dream that time was Psion 5MX, by the way, maybe it's time to buy it now for a review as well, I will check eBay ;)
I still have that exact model shown at 10:43! The Think Outside (name changed to iGo) Stowaway keyboard. Procreate on iPad Pro accepts keyboard inputs and I can just place that on bluetooth somewhere on the desk and use it for keyboard input. It's pretty great.
I got the stowaway when I got the Dell Axim X30.
I remember my first PDA in the early to mid 2000s at some point. It wasn't an iPAQ but it was a Windows mobile device. I had a foldable keyboard dock thing and it made taking notes in school so much easier than with pencil and paper.
God I kind of miss that thing to be honest.
Ahhh.. good times. My dad owned one of these, I would always borrow it from him to play the colored bubble pop game and lose the stylus lol. My mind would've been blowed if it had sims city of other games. It drove me crazy since I loved miniatures and seeing the little windows interface it ran on always made me feel like I was holding the most state of the art tech, I was about 5-6 years old back then.
I used to play on one of those when I worked for Verizon. That was some pretty amazing pre-smart phone technology back then! I remember being in complete awe of it.
Mobile games without ads??, wtf!
turn wifi off?
Alterate Awful These days some games even have the ads already loaded in, so without WiFi, you’d still get ads.
@@aqua4089 if u turn the wifi before u launch the game Ads wont start
Airplane mode duh
@@aqua4089 airplane mode I guess?
Pocket PC then: this
Pocket PC now: any android device
Any smartphone these days are a pocket pc.
@@blqnky.5581 with the amount of customization you can do with an iphone, I highly doubt it.
An iPhone is more of a console than a PC
@@hokage1997 But consoles technically are PCs, especially the modern ones... I wouldn't doubt someone's already gotten Windows or Linux running on the Xbox One or PS4.
@@ephemeralViolette linux was on the ps3. Sony removed it for reasons I forgot
@@hokage1997 The Xbox 360 and PS3 had PowerPC processors. They wouldn't be able to run Windows or modern macOS, but Linux exists for nearly every ISA at this point. It might also be possible to run old versions of Mac OS X (or PPC versions of classic Mac OS) on them, especially the 360 (the Xbox 360 devkits were actually PowerMacs with the 360 OS, I believe).
This is so neat. I had a precursor to this one that was reallllly nice. I forgot the name but in 2004 I had it setup with about 10gb of music videos and movies and about 10gb of music. Me and my friend at the time would aimlessly drive around and that thing was our entertainment. We could watch movies and listen to music through her cars stereo with an aux cord. Nostalgic looking back and I got a ton of people who couldn’t believe we were watching videos on flash memory lol. It was a ton of fun but I honestly only ever used as a poor mans iPod because never used any other feature at all. Except for turning the screen on at night as a “flashlight” lol.
Great video, thanks for sharing with us!
Oh man this brought back memories. i had a couple of iPaq's including that one. i loved watching movies and playing emulated SNES and Genesis games on it too. my coworkers were like amazed. lol I'd acually have a hard time breaking the seal on one now. id just put it on a shelf XD