Hewlett-Packard H6315

The iPAQ h6315 Pocket PC from Hewlett-Packard (HP) is an all wireless and all everything PDA/phone. It is an international quad band GSM/GPRS model with built-in Wi-Fi for linking to wireless LANs and hotspots, and Bluetooth for connecting to a wireless headset or sending documents to a Bluetooth-equipped printer, and it has a built in camera, this thing is awesome.

The screen is a bright, clear 3.5-inch (240 x 320 pixels, 65,536 color) transflective LCD. That looks amazing. It is very easy to read even in the brightest conditons. The screen is also a touch screen, which makes it very easy to navigate around the menu systems.

The h6315 runs Windows Mobile 2003. It includes pocket versions of Outlook, Word, Excel and Internet Explorer and comes with 64MB SDRAM, 64MB Flash ROM and has an integrated SD card slot, so you can increase storage for your movie files, games and MP3's. The design is great. I like the well-labeled LEDs at the top of the front face beside the power button. They indicate the status of the GSM/GPRS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi radios, blinking orange when not connected, green—or in the case of Bluetooth, blue—when working properly.

With the built-in Wi-Fi connectivity you can also browse the Web at high speed on a corporate or home WLAN connected to the Web, or at a hotspot. It worked well from the first time, connecting to my home wireless network was a breeze! Accessing pages designed for small screens was very zippy indeed. Accessing pages on the wider Web is naturally slower, and of course you'll have to use scroll bars to see everything on most pages.

The H6315 can also play MP3's and movies. This is an amazing feature. It comes with Windows media player 9, and it can play back all WMA files, WMV files and MP3 files like a charm. If you buy an additonal sd memory card you can store video and mp3 files on there. It makes out to be a great personal MP3 player while you are on the run, i also have an fm transmitter that i connect to the unit and i listen to my MP3's through my car stereo system. Movie play back is also outstanding!

The camera has the usual .3 megapixel (640x480 pixel) sensor and a lens that is fixed-focal length (i.e. no optical zoom) and fixed focus (pictures are never absolutely razor sharp). It also has no flash. These specs are fairly standard for camera phones, but they reduce the camera's utility to taking shots in favorable light that are good enough to use as memory aids or, in optimum conditions, to transmit visual information, such as the condition of a piece of broken-down machinery. The camera is of course also good for taking fun shots you can e-mail or send over the carrier's MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service).

The phone is very easy to use. It has an onscreen display that looks like a phoen keypad layout. you touch the screen to select your numbers, then hit dial. Very easy to use! the sound quality is great too. You can set any of your stores WMA files as your ringtone too! Sending text messages and MMS mesaages are a breeze too!

If your looking for a PDA with built in phone the h6315 is amazing! it can do everything you want it to do and more! What an amazing piece of equipment! I will never be able to live without mine now!