Just got my IP-830W. Need a utility.

[IsLNdbOi]

Anyone know of a WM5 utility that can scan the PDA's hardware and show you the color depth of the screen and the bluetooth version the PDA has? I'm still not sure if the 830W has bluetooth 1.1 or 1.2. The manual doesn't say and Sprint's site doesn't say.

[Nurhisham Hussein]

Sprint's site says the color depth is 65k, which is standard for Windows Mobile devices (the OS doesn't support 252k colors). I can't find any details on the bluetooth radio, but it's almost certainly v1.2 or v2.0 - nobody does v1.1 anymore.

[IsLNdbOi]

Thanks for the re-assurance. Yeah the screen color depth is only 56,000 colors. They updated their page today (removed the IP-830W from the consumer/personal site and moved it to the business site) and removed the incorrect info.. In addition to changing the listed screen depth, they also removed any mention of the camera, which it does not have.

I really would like a utility like this. It was pretty easy finding one for my Treo 700P (PalmOS), but I can't find anything that will give me this info. for WM5 devices.

[Nurhisham Hussein]

Yeah the screen color depth is only 56,000 colors.

Actually it's 65,536.


I really would like a utility like this. It was pretty easy finding one for my Treo 700P (PalmOS), but I can't find anything that will give me this info. for WM5 devices.

On my device, the color depth is listed under Start->Settings->System Information->Display.

[Brad Adrian]

Thread hijack...

These questions about color depth sure do bring back memories about the controversy surrounding HP's claims for their early devices back in 2000. Anybody else remember THAT mess?

[isajoo]

wasn't it something about 12bit or 16 bit colors...

they where advertising 16 bit but it was 12 bit...no?

[Brad Adrian]

Yep, that was it, and it had people scrambling to figure out just what "12-bit" and "16-bit" meant.