Hewlett-Packard Rz1710

* Microsoft Windows Mobile, includes microsoft office: Pocket Outlook, Word, Excel, and Internet Explorer.
* Wide range of accessories and Third-party applications enjoy your favorite multimedia when you want
* Dazzling display provides incredible viewing both indoors and out
* Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery -- Rechargeable and replaceable long-life battery and easy recharge.
* Portrait and Landscape viewing modes
* Media Player: Supports Windows Media Player, MP3
* Voice recorder with additional add-on microphone
* Stereo Headphone Jack -- Listen to your favorite music or movie clips anytime, anywhere.

At 203 mhz this is a great item!

Thi salso has an expansion slot to increase capacity!!

Nothing about this iPAQ was worth any money spent on it. It was corrupted and I was able to download some things to fix the problem but the problem reoccured and has gotten worse. When I checked with another Tech thinking that I was missing something, I was informed that the iPAQ was junk and was probably tossed out by a company that had it previously. The hardware is corrupt and the battery does not hold a charge longer than 20 minutes. A serious virus had been downloaded sometime and was never cleaned out. He recommended a total drive and memory replacement which of course renders this iPAQ absolutely useless and a piece of junk. When I looked at the sellers feedback going way back I see that this seller, greatestauctions4u has a history of selling worthless items and then blaming the buyer for not reading or understanding or not knowing what they were buying. This seller should be banned from selling as he is selling worthless junk. of course he refuses to answer any of my emails and will not reimburse me for this piece of junk.
I bought the thing for my wife who really wanted one. But now I guess I will go buy her a brand new one and will not trust any more sellers on eBay that are selling computer related material.

I have found the display colors to be vivid. The ease of use to be remarkable. It takes a sd memory card, the same as a digital camera, they are very easy to locate. The only downside i have is that the battery life is less than i would like, it is useable for a few hours and than must be recharged. It is lightweight and fits nicely into my hand. The speakers are good, i use them for games as well as music. I would recommend an Ipaq Rz 1710.

I love having the ability to carry a book with me and it doesn't take up my whole purse. I also like being able to keep pictures on SDCards to share with my children. I have a 5yr old who likes to look at pictures of family and this is very convient. Not to mention I can keep my schedule all in one place!

* Microsoft Windows Mobile, includes microsoft office: Pocket Outlook, Word, Excel, and Internet Explorer.
* Wide range of accessories and Third-party applications enjoy your favorite multimedia when you want
* Dazzling display provides incredible viewing both indoors and out
* Rechargeable Lithium-Ion Battery -- Rechargeable and replaceable long-life battery and easy recharge.
* Portrait and Landscape viewing modes
* Media Player: Supports Windows Media Player, MP3
* Voice recorder with additional add-on microphone
* Stereo Headphone Jack -- Listen to your favorite music or movie clips anytime, anywhere.

At 203 mhz this is a great item!

Thi salso has an expansion slot to increase capacity!!

I bought this as a way to keep a day keeper and spread sheets at the ready. In my down time I planed on reading PDF or Ebooks on it.
1. If you have VISTA on you computer and you are just an average computer user, do not bother with this item. You will get frustrated and toss it. You have to download a different sync program because this items normal sync program does not work with VISTA.
2. Unless you have a full version of ADOBE ACROBAT you will not be able to read PDFs, You have to reset the TAGs in order to read them.
3. Not enough built in memory...but I knew that when I bought it. I planned on getting a 2 gig sd card. Which I did, and it works fine.
4. Battery life is horrible. If you do not use it much, it will last for a while, but during the day, I refer to my tasks list and set appointments often.
5. Little to no support from HP. They stop making it. the only support I could find on HP is a couple of manuals (Useless because of VISTA.) and 1 software download.
Overall: It is a great looking piece of electronics. If I were to purchase this back when it first came out, around 2002, it would have been awesome and I probably would have had more support. Unfortunately, because of the Vista operating system, new connection software and no support, I would walk away from this one, unless you know what you are doing. I will still keep it, and try to reprogram it to do something else. Oh yeah, If you are going to use this as a portable internet device, I connected it to the internet through my usp connection in my laptop and had no problems with that at all. Thinking about getting a wifi card and using it at local hot spots. Also, you can get a GPS card too. The Problem is finding them. I found a wifi card for 35 dollars. Still can't find the GPS card.

This great electronic gizmo is really a computor that fits in your pocket. It functions as a word processor, email reader, mp3 player, video player, book reader as well as a great contact list and task or appointment calendar. The other thing I love is that I can hand write notes on the screen or use it as an audio recorder and can download it all to my desktop at the end of the day.
It has more than paid for itself with just the free e-books that I have downloaded, kept me entertained with games while waiting for appointments and kept my many medical appointments and medications straight as I underwent cancer treatment.
I loved it so much that when my original of over 5 years was damaged beyond repair I bought 2 more so that if one ever needed to go for servicing I would have a spare.
I am over 60 years old but don't know how I managed before I had my pocket pc.

I love all of the options and the speed of this pocket PC. Its lightweight and thin profile make it easy to carry with me everywhere. it has many of the features of a laptop without the hassle of carrying one.

great product and the seller is great fast service and very accurate on the product gave good feedback and was interested in how i liked it great to deal with them

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I have wanted an IPAQ and this fits my specification and price. I like it and will recommend for those on budget.

I decide to buy it because its very usefull for me at my wrk as a hospital pharmacist because i can have all my necesary book inthat wonderfull item. I like most that for 50.00 box I got like a new ipaq, and I dont like that the battery do not keep the energy so much. But I am so happy with my item. THANK YOU EBAY FOR BEEN

everything was good , works perfect would definetly buy again from this seller thanks again , and i dont know what else to write hhehehehhe

I paid for the product on 11/24/08 through Pay Pal & didn't receive it until 12/8/08. Product held a charge for 20 - 30 minutes & shut down after an 8-hour charge. Unit did not align properly. I had to push 3 on the keyboard function to execute a 1 and that only worked occasionally. Seller told me that that it functioned properly, but finally allowed me to send back the product for another one after my third complaint. I returned it on 12/11/08, the Post Office confirmed delivery on 12/13/08, seller said they didn't receive it until 12/18/08 & would send a replacement right out & I still don't have it. I can't comment on the product because I haven't received one that works properly.

Life isn't perfect, but if a product doesn't work, a seller needs to step up and make it right and that has not happened yet. I would be happy to provide another review once this complaint is resolved

MS Visual Studio 2005 has everything needed to program the pocketPC mobile 2003SE. Great device for people who like to have access to a capable developer program. Palm pilot users have codewarrior but by the time I could afford my copy of codewarrier the IIIc I own lost all of its usefulness for lack of USB port and limited memory.

Have not found too many programming examples for the unit yet. I have an application that uses a rs232 communications port like the rz1710 has but sometimes with MS's documented interfaces pieces of the puzzle can be left out making difficult for individual programmers like myself to publish finished code.

The rz1710 has a sd memory slot not compatible with sdhc memory cards but may take a 4gb standard sd card (have not tried it yet but will work with a 2gb card).

Only problem is the lack of programs shareware/software and otherwise, seems like much more written for the palm pilot than the PPC. MS Activesync works flawlessly although can only sync with the top level contacts folder of MS Outlook. If you use subfolders like I do you have to move all your contacts to a single folder not too much of a problem, the work around I use is that I keep duplicate sets of contacts, one under their respective subfolders and one large merged folder in the default "Contacts" folder.

Should have joined in the palm pilot programming bandwagon when palm pilot came out but little hiring of programmers in area. Better late than never!

I should mention one more thing comparing it to yesterday's technology the character recognition of the rz1710 is a huge improvement over the graffiti Alphabet stuff a few years back.

purchased in Nov 2008
other PIM owned.
IIIc purchased date:unknown - still has a good battery!

I rate this excellent because it was exactly what I needed to simplify my life at work. Scheduling appointments. I didn't need to handwrite them anymore or get messed up on dates. I don't really use it for anything else. The only thing that frustrates me about it, syncing files between it and my computer. I still haven't figured it out with the software and thought I was doing it right, but can never find anthing that was backed up. I only want to back up my appointments onto my computer. Other than me still trying to figure it out, I love it. Just for future reference, there is a second way to reset/reboot your Pocket PC. you hold down the lower outer two button and poke the reset botton on the bottom at the SAME TIME and it unlocks it, if it ever gets locked up. If you do it that way, it's the same thing as setting your Pocket PC back to FACTORY SETTINGS! You will lose everything if you don't back it up.

I wanted a PDA to keep contacts and appointments in and when I saw this one for cheap I thought it would be great to try one out. Ever since I opened the package this PDA has caused me problems and would not work properly. The screen keeps going out of alignment, sometimes it won't turn on, and I constantly have to keep reseting it. The only positive thing I can say is that the seller has stayed in contact with me and tried to help me with the problems. I recently sent it back to the seller to get a different one but after dealing with that one I just want my money back. I don't want to deal with it anymore.

i bought it because it was the best priced at my price range and my wife wanted it for mothers day and it arrived befor mothers day and he made sure of that i was happy with the man that sold to me he was good at explaining things to me and how ebay worked i am nearly new to this and he was ok this is how its done ty i use ebay all the time now im for good people and ebay.........................

great price, works great. I'm not sure how I functioned before having a pda. I can't wait to expand on it's programs.

+++I bought the NewPhone 74205 three weeks ago and was immediately impressed with the number of features available on this inexpensive phone. It has a 1M-pixel camera, video camera, and speakerphone. The NewPhone's size is perfect for carrying in a pocket and the battery has a pretty good lifespan of roughly 4 hours. My only complaint is that the menu system on the phone makes you click four times before you can find someone in the address book, set an alarm, or perform a additional functions. Other phones I've owned have simpler menus and get you to important features easily. Overall, I'd recommend the phone if you're on a budget.

I am still having problems with the PDA working properly. The product will not come on. I've called seller and he told me to reboot it. Now it's not working.

I got this item because I was looking for a small hand held pc that could hold text documents and media like photos and some videos and this was the highest rated and cheapest item I could find and I am very pleased with this product and I would recommend this product to anyone but note this is a cheaper hand held PC and does not have tons a features and is limited on what you can do but over all I love this item

It is a great product, but the battery wasn't good. I read something in the sales description saying something about the battery, but it didnt say anything about it being bad. Otherwise the product is good.