Hewlett-Packard HP iPAQ 910 Business Messenger Unlocked Phone with U.S. 3G, 3 MP Camera, Media Player, and MicroSD Slot--U.S. Version with Warranty

good

1/7/2009

a love it, but I hope that the alarms could choose an MP3 file , but only have simples bored ringtones.
The sound of the ringtine is too low I can't listen it.
BUT ALL THE FUNTIONS ARE GREAT

Misses the mark! What good is a phone you can't hear?

1/3/2009

I have owned and used the folowing to compare this to: 8525/Hermes, t-mobile Dash, Ipaq Ultimate 8502, Samsung Blackjack, T-mobile Curve 8310, and 8320, Treo 680, AT&T Tilt, Motorola q9h (my current favorite), Audiovox SMT5600, and a couple others I don't recall all the model names on some of the rest, but you get the idea. I have quite a bit of experience with smartphones, primarily Windows Mobile.

This phone has the potential to be nice, but is pretty weak when you consider the price. Because these do not have a carrier agreement, they are never available discounted, the cheapest you can get one right now is $350 for a used one, maybe $390 for almost new, $450 plus for brand new. Now I realize that is inline with other phone of this caliber, but this phone is just too QUIET. You can barely hear it ring, can't hear the notifications at all really. There is an app inside it to boost the volume, but anytime the phone reboots, it resets back to too quiet.

It's just a waste of time and money for them to make a phone like this that you can't hear.

For $150 you can get a tre 750, motorola q9h, t-mobile dash, 8525, tilt, etc. THey all have better volume then this.

Besides that, the battery life is poor, and the processor even though is not real slow is not real zippy considering the battery useage and the price.

For corporate use only, it's probably ok, but just barely. I mean if the company was paying for my phone, I might use this one.

wifi works fine.

Has a nice form-factor, a little cheap feeling build quality (but not too bad).

I have found the q9h to be the best overall smartphone for me. Durable, LOUD enough. Nice rugged feel and good form factor. No touch screen though.

If you want a Windows Mobile Phone with touch screen and qwerty on top, you have a few choices: ipaq 910, treo 750, imate 8502. The 8502 keyboard was a little too tight for me. The treo does not have wifi and alittle older, but a good choice because it has a carrier discount, which means the second-hand market you can find them for $100! It has everything this has but GPS and Wifi.

It all depends on what is important to the user. For personal use, not that good because too quiet. Hard to justify spending $400 hard cash on a phone you can't hear!

Nice features, but too many glitches

1/3/2009

I like this phone mainly because It is the only phone I know of that allows you to edit and read office 2007 files. I like the touch screen. The handwriting function works well. The voice quality sounds good to me. The volume is not as loud as other phones, but I never have trouble hearing, even in noisy environments (I keep the volume turned all the way up).

When it's working properly, it's a great phone. But it never seems to work for very long before it locks up and I have to reset it. I have to reset it 1 to 3 times a day.

I also have bluetooth problems. My plantronics bluetooth headset that worked perfectly with my ipaq 510 does not work well with the 910. It works fine for making calls, but for some reason it does not work at all with the voice command feature and files played on the windows media player will not play through the headset.

Another problem is the battery life. I had read complaints about the battery before I bought the phone, but I did not think it would be a problem for me because I do not use the phone much during the day. I use it for one or two personal calls a day and I briefly use ms word or excel. The battery does not make it through the day without recharging. I don't know how business users who make frequent calls, send/recieve emails etc. can get by with this phone. Another battery is available for this phone on the hp website that provides 60% longer life, but it is twice as thick and makes the phone bulky.

One great way to save battery power is to turn off the power when you are not using it. It will still receive calls and messages. The problem I'm having is that every third or fourth time I turn off the power, the phone locks up (this is in addition to other lock ups). It has to be reset to make it work again. Unfortunately, the phone will not recieve calls or messages if it locks. This is not a problem for me because I don't receive many calls. For someone who cannot afford to miss a call, this would be a big problem.

This phone reminds me of my old ipaq hx2495 pocket pc. It used to lock up all the time and I was always resetting it. After using an ipaq 510 for about a year, I became accustomed to having a reliable device that almost never had to be reset. Now I'm back to resetting my device all the time. I'm very disappionted.

I do not recommend buying this phone.

HP iPAQ 910

12/12/2008

Nice phone except for battery life. It needs to be charged everyday if actively used (i.e. occasional surfing, music etc.) It could last 2 days if just used to make calls. If playing music a lot it will last less than 12 hrs. Wifi and bluetooth are both enabled for me.

Satellite information needs to be downloaded before the GPS will work but it works well.
In all other aspects performs reasonable well (camera, responsiveness, sound etc)

I used it like a laptop, battery life is too poor to really use it as a mobile device.

Regarding the battery & GPS

12/11/2008

This phone is a nice phone.
The screen could be bigger, but otherwise it is allright.
Most people complain about short battery life - yes, but this depends on two things: the 3G/HDSPA burns energy like a semi the gas. Raise the timeframe to check for emails.

But that is not the worst battery killer: it is the screen! Make sure, the screend turns off and not just dimms. This is not turned on by factory default.

I am beyond the 2nd day, and it still shows 57% battery power available.
That is more than the weak 1 day you have withpout the screen-turn-off-option turned on.
With just GSM/EDGE the phone was running out of power after half a day.

You will find the option under settings- system- power:there it says backlight on the bottom- now activate the "Turn off backlight if device is not used for x minutes"!


The GPS:
well Google Maps doesn't work! Ha, epic fail HP!
I am using iGo8 anyways. Works!
Make sure to let it search for the GP with these settings:
Baudrate 57600
Port 6