01-02-2003, 05:12 PM
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Mixed 5450 Reviews
While the HP iPaq 5450 has been getting generally positive reviews, a couple of people have had trouble with the units.
dma1965 made a post on the forums about his experiences: he's been suffering rather poor battery life. Jason mentioned on Tuesday that HP may be holding up further shipments to correct an issue here, so maybe this is something that'll get solved shortly.
The Gadgeteer has a very thorough review. Both Judie and Julie had trouble with the unit, and they describe it in detail.
Anyone else have further feedback?
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01-02-2003, 05:44 PM
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I was surprised by the Gadgeteer reaction. They were upset that they couldn't return it. Normally "bad" reviews just talk about the cons of the item, but there's no wishing for a return.
Perhaps they do return items that get a bad review, and since it isn't a problem, they don't mention it. Either that, or it's the high price of this one that's the issue. It's an expensive mistake given all the current problems. Hopefully HP will resolve them. 
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01-02-2003, 05:46 PM
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I think they bought from that place because they could get it right away, and were planning on "keeping" the units, so it wouldn't have mattered. That the Gadgeteers would want to return the units seems to imply there are QC problems with at least a batch of the 5450's.
--janak
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01-02-2003, 06:22 PM
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Odd article...yep they had problems.....mine hasn't had any of those issues. Frankly....a dominant theme in their review seemed to be, "I paid $700 for features I didn't need and now I'm going to complain about it". So on the one hand I empathize with the quality issues they had on the other, too bad if you paid a premium for features you didn't need.
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01-02-2003, 06:24 PM
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You don't spend $700 for a review hoping that you can return it afterwards! I hope that's not what they were thinking. Although it is interesting from a consumers position to know how difficult the return process might be.
Daniel
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01-02-2003, 06:24 PM
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Haven't read the full Gadgeteer review but I saw the blurb about ebook reading annoyances. I've had a resurging crave for ebooks lately and am having the same troubles w/ my Dell Axim (which is going back).
Paging up/down via the D-pad or the side rocker nub tends to act up every so often. Either doesn't register the first press, or more often it would go on overdrive and page up/down by 2+ pages at a time! I'm having to keep the page counter bar visible on the bottom and constantly keep my eye on it when changing pages. Even more annoying, when this happens as I'm reading mid-sentence it breaks the cohesive flow of the reading experience.
I've only used MS Reader this time so I can't be sure if this is solely a hardware problem or what (I seem to recall I've had similar troubles a long time ago w/ my oldest iPAQs using MS Reader?)...
I've already changed the Up/Down Control to the longest delay before first repeat and the slowest repeat rate, but it doesn't help, I'm still getting these multi-page scrolling from just one button press.
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01-02-2003, 06:29 PM
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Generally happy with my device
I've been using it for two weeks and I am generally happy. I do have the wifi memory error, but I expect that will be addressed with software. I am also upset that my Flyjacket sleeve doesn't work, but maybe they will update their software as well.
Battery life is meeting expectations. Joypad works great for me. I find it to be better than my old 3835. In fact, with Nevo loaded, I can use the current joypad like a real remote as it is rounded and my thumb fits perfectly. I am able to move up and down in the tivo guide on my tv with one hand and use the thumb to press down and select a channel.
Having compact flash isn't that important for me. I'd rather use SD as long as the prices keep coming down. I have zero devices that use CF, so the only reason I had a CF sleeve was for additional memory on the IPAQ. Right now, if I really need the extra memory (outside my 256 SD) I can through my SS on the device.
Biometrics works great for me. Took five minutes to get used to it, then I was up and running. I never passworded my ipaq before, even though it contained sensitive information, but now I've got bio by default.
Wifi, when I don't get the memory error works great. I've only used it at home, so will have to test with other hotspots. I'd love to see ministumbler working on this device, but that will take some time.
The only issue I had was when I installed Dashboard. My device went into constant reboot mode and I had to do a hard reset. Interestingly enough, I had this same exact problem with an earlier version of dashboard on my old IPAQ, so while i would like to use it, I just won't.
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01-02-2003, 06:30 PM
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Thats an MS reader issue, i got a 3900 and all is fine but i get to a page, press the button and nothing for a good 20 seconds, so if you press the button a few times when it does respond it goes through all the pages you pressed. Proberlbly an XScale thing.
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01-02-2003, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by st63z
Paging up/down via the D-pad or the side rocker nub tends to act up every so often. Either doesn't register the first press, or more often it would go on overdrive and page up/down by 2+ pages at a time!
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I have the same problem on my Toshiba 740 -- but this happens in every application (especially in PIE, when I'm reading the news on one of my AvantGo channels). Ugh!!!
I'm still waiting to get my 5450 -- I want to get it from BestBuy, but they don't have it in the store yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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01-02-2003, 06:36 PM
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The gadgeteer bought TT, NX, and h5450 in space of 2 months. I would say any blemish at all will effect the unit and get dropped in a jiffy. NX got tumbs down, and also h5450. It seems they like TT, after gone Zayo and NR for a few months.
I think their ideal machine would be a Zayo spec and built in BT but h1910 size.
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