I am not happy with my hp rx1950 pocketpc. Its lack of memory makes it flaky running multiple applications, some suddenly terminate without saving their data. They also randomly terminate when I turn it on from standby. This means that to be safe I have to exit the applications before powering down which makes continuing work tedious as I have to reopen the application in the right document. When memory is running short it can get very sluggish and it will often lock up and I have to press the reset button and wait a minute or so for it to reboot (it runs a version windows remember).
The upshot of all this is that I don't do any notetaking on it, which is the main reason I bought it.
It is fine for slingbox, surfing, rss etc, although slingbox player locks up if I try to use the remote control in landscape mode: could be slingbox but more likely the O/S and it's appetite for memory (needs 20M or so of RAM out of 32M: how much? What is it doing with it? How much of this could/should have been fixed in ROM?).
Options:
- Buy Dell axim X51 or HP hx2490
- Give rx1950 to wife/sell on ebay/use for satnav (it's too gutless for skype which would be the main use the wife could make of it)
- Live with it
Decisions.
Update: Bought a new Dell Axim x51v via ebay for £80 off Dell price, currently in the post. This is one of the fastest WM5 PDA's there is so it should have the horsepower for skype and it has twice as much ram so hopefully apps won't randomly terminate. Incidentally, I tried Minimo, a port of firefox to pocketpc, and it was hopeless, barely managed to show google.com. I think this was down to memory demands, given that firefox is pretty gluttonous in this regard.
x51v features compared to rx1950:
- cpu more than twice as fast
- 256M flash
- 64M RAM
- bluetooth
- 640x480 screen vs 320*240
- 3d graphics accelerator
- compact flash slot as well as SD which rx1950 has.
- an actual button to turn wifi on and off
I think the decider in making me buy this was the prospect that daynotez might be usable on it.
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Did you give the Orange M600 a try? It runs Skype without a problem (although I think the screen is smaller than the rx1950).