Pocket PC Italia has a short article on the possible launch of a new iPAQ (:google: English translation here). I don't know how much of it is true or not, but speculate away! 8)
Well, of course, this news comes out roughly 30 days after I buy my 5455!! Of course the rumors I'm interested in are the ones talking about PPC2003 upgrades for the iPaqs, because I'm very impressed with this device and am sure the 2003 upgrade will make it even better.
I want to upgrade from my 3835. I've been looking at the e750 and the 5455, I'll use the WiFi feature quite a bit. But since I've become addicted to Bluetooth (phone, GPS, printer, etc.), the 5455 (or the 5550) looks great because it's built in. I have a Socket BT CF card for my 3835 so it would be easy to add it to the e750. Any thoughts on which is the better device?
In other threads here, I've been babbling on about both the 5550 and the rumour that the 5400, 3900 and 3700 series will be offered Pocket PC 2003 upgrades. I've also been wondering if the ROM from the (rumoured) 5550 could be copied over to a 5450 so we don't have to wait until the (rumoured) offical upgrade is offered.
:mrgreen: Obviously doesn't take much more than a rumour to get me over-excited...
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I wonder if the 5550 will be the 3870's 3970. In other words, will the 5550 be the model that fixed everything in the 5450 as the 3970 did for the 3870?
I'm usually pretty skeptical about rumors but PocketPCItalia has been pretty accurate with them so far.
Hmm... 128MB of RAM would provide a lot of audio recording time along with the new version of NoteM 1.10.
Speaking of which, the new version of NoteM is out. This version allows on-the-fly MP3 recording at 44KHz with bitrates of 32Kbps, 56Kbps, and 128Kbps. Go check it out when you get a chance.
I highly doubt that HP will offer a ROM update for the 3X00 series. The hardware on all but the 3970 would probably not meet the requirements for PPC 2003.
The rumor makes sense. This would be the natural progression of the 5xxx series.
What makes this even more believable is that the time frame seems to coinside with the 2200 series release rumors (i.e. FCC report on Brighthand).
I wish I knew what the PPC2k3 changes were. Let's just hipe that it fixes connection mangler and adds table support to Pocket Word.
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I'm usually pretty skeptical about rumors but PocketPCItalia has been pretty accurate with them so far.
Hmm... 128MB of RAM would provide a lot of audio recording time along with the new version of NoteM 1.10.
The RAM upgrade would be SO nice. TransACT! 2.0 takes up a load of RAM and I am constantly running out of memory on my 3870. Bring it on!
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128 MB of RAM will be nice for this unit. Hopefully the new PPC 2003 software (if it even ships with this device) will continue to work on increasing the processing speed of these devices. I think we'll see a good product simply continue to get better!
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