Buy Hewlett Packard Jornada 680 Handheld PCHewlett Packard Jornada 680 Handheld PC Product Description:
- Touch-type keyboard
- 6.5-in. 65,536-color touch screen with stylus
- 16-MB RAM (upgradable)
- 56 Kbps internal modem
- What's in the box: Jornada 680, Stylus, Rechargeable battery, AC Adapter, Docking cradle, Serial cable, Documentation guide
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95 of 95 people found the following review helpful.
Great for getting email when you travel.
By Dana D. Dlott
If you shlep a heavy laptop on trips just to get your email, do a little bit of web browsing or write some notes, this is for you. You just put the Jornada in your pocket or briefcase and attach the phone cable to its handy built in modem. The battery lasts so long (sometimes 8 hours) that you can travel for several days without even taking the power adapter. The whole system weighs only about 1 lb. The keyboard is OK but might be problematic if you have fat fingers.
Although you can download Word or PowerPoint documents from your desktop and carry them around, the graphics are not good enough for technical presentations. However if you use mainly plain text and your PowerPoint presentations are mainly big pie charts and so on, this is another great feature. I found out that HP sells a VGA adapter card for the Jornada. This little plug in card lets you download your MS PowerPoint presentation into the little travel computer and then output it to a VGA monitor or projector with graphics up to 768x1024. So not only can I carry the Jornada on trips to get my email, but I can also download my presentation (up to about 16 MB) and output it to the client's projector or monitor. Since the presentation comes from the computer's memory, it is very fast. Great!
36 of 36 people found the following review helpful.jornada does the job
By lenl
I was looking for a "micro notebook" like machine. Pda utilities were important. being a "unix" programmer, some type of terminal was also quite important. I have used a few of the "palm size" machines and found them undesirable. (im always poping up the little tap on keyboard, AND,when entering numbers, 99% accuracy (hand writing recognition) doesn't quit cut it). I also was not going to spend over $500, and not get some kind of word processor. Using Hpvx, i have a beautiful, portable, always ready,telnet machine, that does wp, excel, email, and internet... and the color is Great. The battery last. Really last. better then 8 hours, even when using the modem.... Am i Satisfied ??? Im thrilled!. it not tiny, but its always with me, and i have become quite dependent on it.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful.Beats other types of palmtops and hand-helds, hands down!
By A Customer
I have been using my HP Jordana 680 for over a month and I have say I'm delighted with it. It is by far and away the best Windows CE device yet. It beats other types of palmtops and hand-helds, hands down!
The price might seem fairly steep compared to other PDA's, but you do get an awful lot of for your money, in a very little package. I considered buying a Psion 5, but by the time you had added the PCIMA adapter and the modem the total cost was the same as the HP 680!
I have also found HP's customer service to be excellent, their website is top-notch, their software updates are easy to apply and their telephone staff are superb.
There are several other features I would like to see in Windows CE, but as the operating system can be upgraded there is no reason why they cannot be added at a later date. Some of these are:
* Conversion of files to pocket format on the device itself (this would be handy for email attachments)* The ability to create graphs in Excel* Embed objects within word files* Any chance of a copy of NetMeeting for CE?
So come on Microsoft how about these enhancements?
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