We already told you about the top-end of the camp iPAQ handheld series H54xx, but certainly more interesting inexpensive model from HP - the first budget iPAQ H1910. This handheld combines a good name leader in Pocket PC-PDA and inherent quality and price of a new wave of low cost machines. Novelty is also interesting that before HP did not release low-cost models, content with the tip of the iceberg. Prior to our editorial CPC has not yet arrived, but Western observers have already prepared several materials, and forums are full of reviews of the first owners. Based on data collected, specifically the various user ratings and construct our review. We promise to immediately on arrival news to share with you impressions. We hope that this correspondence dating from the iPAQ H1910 help both you and us to understand whether it is worth waiting for this machine.
At first glance,
The first thing that catches your eye, it's dimensions of the device and its weight. Both figures are very small for this class as a whole and for the series iPAQ in particular. Thus, the dimensions are H1910 115x71.5x13.0 mm and its weight is 131 g. To the way, the size and weight of the previous leader of compactness in the ranks of the Pocket PC, Toshiba e310, are, respectively, 125x80x12, 4 mm and 140 g. It can be seen , HP in this regard so far out of competition, and even a brand new ViewSonic v35 behind on this indicator from the H1910. So that the novelty of Law takes first place on the podium for the compactness and came close to the smallest Palm. It is clear that in view of reducing the size of the compatibility with the old jackets you can forget.
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| H1910 - in the middle ... |
In this unit you see in the picture below, is not included cradle. Latest developers decided to replace the USB-cable. But there are cimpatichnye headphones.
Headphones are included in the package, apparently because that HP wanted to deliver customers a headache when searching for this necessary accessory. The fact that a standard connector to 3.5 mm in this model is replaced by a phone the size of 2.5 mm, so pick conditioning "ears" would not be easy.
Another unpleasant aspect as the structural feature is the lack of scroll wheel. This is a very tangible impact on the ergonomics H1910. The battery is removable and the novelty has very small dimensions, and therefore nothing prevents buy himself a couple of extra copies and take them on the road. We think that is the case with this model it is not so much to the whim of the traveler as a necessity, since the battery capacity of H1910 is only 900 mAh. Although it's quite possible that this will not affect battery operation. After processing, the new product is not the fastest, so let's see what the budget firstborn HP "in action".
iPAQ new, old fillings
Probably the most stand out part of the hardware filling the new PDA can be considered a processor. And indeed, something did not recall that anyone else of the manufacturers decided to use Intel XScale 200 MHz in their products.All cars manufactured today do not fall below 300 MHz, and therefore on the speed to H1910 in overseas forums there are big claims. But the whole truth about the inferiority or lack thereof, as a low-power "stones", we seem to be able to learn only when handhelds will arrive to us. As for memory, then the total of its volume (in the technical data RAM is 64 MB) available to the user only 46.75 MB. This meager wealth can be repeatedly multiply by the expansion slot for memory card standard SD / MMC. The latter, as is the case with Dell Axim X5, does not support SDIO (Secured Digital Input / Output). But if the novelty of the Dell to connect peripheral cards can use the CF slot, the H1910 is deprived of this opportunity. At the same time there is a hope that HP has yet to release a software patch that will correct such a significant disadvantage. So, for example, came in due time Handspring, equipping SDIO support your Pocket PC, Treo 90, which was originally not having this opportunity. But these are just guesses - HP yet promised nothing. Display this model on the glorious tradition established in the camp iPAQ, has a very high quality. It is built on trancflektivnoy technology, and therefore superbly looked in poorly lit rooms and is worthy of feeling in the sun.
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Speaker at the H1910 is under way navigation joystick, but despite its small size, fully perform all functions assigned to it. The speaker sound can be played through headphones, which, as mentioned above, the manufacturing company is carefully placed in a box with the device. Of course, to the expensive high-quality copies of past fall short, but also Chinese handicrafts, which vendors are so fond of to equip their devices, complete "ears" obviously "doing." In view of all this, and very small size of the unit from it should go a good player, of course, provided if you buy his memory. The only thing that confused in this high-tech player, so it's a little battery life. Thus, the result of using the device compact, low-capacity batteries are approximately 4 hours of work, which will agree, by today's standards quite a bit. Well, if the PDA to run DivX, the batteries and did just enough for 2-3 hours. Well, the compact calls for the victims ...
Steeplechase
Due to the use of the new iPAQ is extremely slow processor much interested to know the true performance of this device. Alas, to verify the speed of a novelty in practice we do not, but some on this subject have already appeared on the web. By tradition, for the tests used benchmark VOBenchmark.That's what a H1910 versus some other handhelds, serving in the same price range:
| Test / Model | Toshiba e310 (Strong ARM 206MGts) | ViewSonic V35 (XScale 300 MHz) | Dell Axim X5 (XScale 300 MHz) | HP iPAQ H1910 (XScale 200 MHz) |
| CPU Floating Point | 8.02 | 6.34 | 9.48 | 6.32 |
| CPU Integer | 15.50 | 13.30 | 20.08 | 13.52 |
| Graphics Bitmap BitBlt | 56.86 | 16.66 | 56.78 | 40.94 |
| Graphics Bitmap StretchBlt | 0.35 | 0.50 | 0.30 | 0.60 |
| Graphics Filled Ellipse | 2.24 | 0.85 | 2.07 | 2.15 |
| Graphics Filled Rectangle | 7.76 | 1.02 | 6.56 | 3.78 |
| Graphics Filled Round Rectangle | 1.72 | 0.66 | 1.39 | 1.66 |
| Memory Allocation | 8.69 | 6.42 | 9.34 | 6.41 |
| Memory Fill | 0.39 | 0.85 | 0.94 | 0.60 |
| Memory Move | 0.74 | 0.30 | 0.38 | 0.32 |
| Text | 3.77 | 2.20 | 3.92 | 3.88 |
As can be seen from the table, HP iPAQ H1910 does not suffer from an excess of speed, that in general it is not surprising. His results are close to the ViewSonic V35, the slowest PDA Intel XScale 300MHz. In this case, it is worth considering that the machine from HP has a fairly good performance in graphics tests and work with text. On other indicators of a new Dell Axim X5, a direct competitor H1910, ahead of a product from HP. Last hit, Toshiba e310, which has now a similar price and size also leaves no novelty no chance. It is understandable - there are no miracles, and a weak processor makes itself felt, so that the low cost of having to pay again. In addition to theoretical tests, H1910 was tested also on a realistic toy Pocket quake. The result of dismal news - only 5.8 frames per second. This is despite the fact that the average in the benchmark for modern devices is approximately 7 frames per second, and Pocket PC Razor Zayo processor, clocked at 400MHz, provides all the 10 frames per second. In general, many compare the new iPAQ to speed with the 3600-th series. PDA users in this series will understand what is at stake. H1910 sin pauses when playing mp3-nis and dropped frames when watching movies DivX.
Buy?
So, to sum up. iPAQ H1910, primarily attracted by its compact form factor and low weight. In addition, the pluses models include the traditionally very high-quality transflective screen, nice design, removable battery, finally, the headphones that come as a bonus. As to the cons, they are also missing. Here without a doubt be credited a small battery life (save the battery, made possible due to the use of a weak processor), the lack of support for SDIO expansion slot, a small amount of available memory, low speed, no scroll wheel, and a protective case. Yes, and the price could be lower. Summing up, we can say that about the chances of new items on the success so far is rather difficult, because the "pros" H1910 did not compensate for all these cons. The authors, translation:
Dmitry Ryabinin
