11-16-2002, 01:30 AM
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Executive Editor
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PDA Buyer's Guide Reviews ViewSonic V35 Pocket PC 2002
Well, despite my begging and pleading with Viewsonic, PDA Buyer's Guide beat me to it: the first real review of the V35. I don't consider the regurgitated press releases at CNET to be real reviews. :roll: How did the Viewsonic fare? Quite well!
"Pro: The cheapest new Pocket PC 2002 PDA available today (though the iPAQ 1910 and Dell Pocket PC will soon share that honor). This PDA allows more people to get into a new Pocket PC 2002 PDA. Very slim and the lightest PPC on the market! Zippy performance and an excellent transreflective display that's bright, color-saturated and evenly lit. D-pad is good for gamers and non-gamers alike. 64 megs of RAM, now the industry standard, gives you room to install 3rd party software.
Con: No CF card slot for cheaper CF memory cards, and modem and network cards. You do get an SD slot. Not as fast as 400MHz XScale Pocket PCs, and one of the slower units in our benchmarks, but a solid performer nonetheless."
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11-16-2002, 02:00 AM
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Magi
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According to the benchmarks it is considerably slower than the Toshiba e330, the only other 300mhz. I find benchmarks a little misleading though. Nothing beats firsthand experience, to see how it feels.
When you finish begging Jason, let us know how you feel about it's speed.
Dave
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11-16-2002, 02:24 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Originally Posted by Paragon
According to the benchmarks it is considerably slower than the Toshiba e330, the only other 300mhz. I find benchmarks a little misleading though. Nothing beats firsthand experience, to see how it feels.
When you finish begging Jason, let us know how you feel about it's speed.
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Yeah, benchmarks on PDA's mean nothing to me, I'm all about how it actually works when I use it. This statement proves that:
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higher end Pocket PCs such as the iPAQ 3900 and Toshiba e740 have XScale processors running at 400MHz, I didn't feel that the 300MHz V35 was slow. It benchmarks numbers are not exciting, but it feels plenty fast (see table below). Note that while Toshiba PPCs perform very well on graphics benchmarks, their real world performance is not superior.
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11-16-2002, 02:33 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Three more interesting quotes:
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Battery life has been very good so far in auto mode, outlasting the Toshiba models and getting about 85% of the runtime our iPAQ 3970 gets in a mix of gaming, contacts/calendar access, movie playback and MP3 playback.
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As mentioned, the display is fantastic! I think the iPAQ 3900 edges it out, but you must put them side by side to really notice a difference. The colors are a bit more vibrant on the iPAQ 3900, but of course, it costs a few hundred dollars more. The speaker is quite loud, and the headphone sound is on par with other Pocket PCs: very good.
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The round directional pad is great for gaming: it gives good feedback and control, and allows for fluid movement in any direction.
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That settles it, this is definitely the PocketPC for me...well, I pre-ordered it last month from Amazon so I guess it was already settled for me :lol:
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11-16-2002, 02:40 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Jun 2002
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Originally Posted by Paragon
According to the benchmarks it is considerably slower than the Toshiba e330, the only other 300mhz. I find benchmarks a little misleading though.
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I don't even know what most of these benmarks mean. Is there an explanation somewhere? 
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11-16-2002, 02:45 AM
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Magi
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Originally Posted by Paul P
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Originally Posted by Paragon
According to the benchmarks it is considerably slower than the Toshiba e330, the only other 300mhz. I find benchmarks a little misleading though.
Dave
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I don't even know what most of these benmarks mean. Is there an explanation somewhere? |
Ha! I think that's part of my problem too, Paul. I don't have a clue what most benchmarks mean.
Dave
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11-16-2002, 03:01 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Well, if 300mhz xscale is not too fast... the ipaq 1900 will be very slow!!
Anyway this article says "transreflective" instead of "transflective"
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11-16-2002, 03:35 AM
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Executive Editor
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Anyway this article says "transreflective" instead of "transflective"
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Forget all that jargon: back-lit or side-lit is the real factor. This is back-lit, which means NICE quality. 
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11-16-2002, 03:39 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Originally Posted by Paul P
I don't even know what most of these benmarks mean. Is there an explanation somewhere? |
Well, I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but part of my problem with PocketPC benchmarks is that it doesn't really translate into any real performance for the user.
Sort of like measuring 2D performance on a video card, sure one video card might have better performance than another, but the user isn't going to notice the difference.
Same here, there are NO games that I know of that run significantly better on one PDA than they do on the other (At least performance wise), your average PDA apps don't either, and where they may be a slight argument in the area of video apps the fact remains PocketTV still works just fine on my iPaq 3650.
Bottom line, I'm not sure you should make your PDA decision based on benchmark performance.
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11-16-2002, 05:09 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Too bad Jason you could not get one but I know for a fact that there are 3 units in Canada right now, 2 are being evaluated by the government, no doubt spending our money already, and the 3rd has not power adapter. In any event, if there is god, Thoughts will have its own review soon as well, if it still matters.
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