What to buy?? h4150 or rx1950

[chiggachu]

I'm looking to spend ~$250 for a wifi ipaq. These two models are perfect: Small, light, built in wifi and good pricing.

The rx1950/1955 is a nice unit, retails for $300 and going on ebay for around $250. This was just released earlier this fall. Runs on the new WM5, but uses a 300MHz samsung cpu, no bluetooth, basically a barebones wifi pda.

The h4150/4155 is basically the same unit, but 2 years older and with added bluetooth. I can get this for a bit cheaper on ebay (around $150). This runs on WM2003SE.

Both should perform about the same for my purposes (email, messaging, schedule).

So the question is:

Do I spend ~$100 less for the model that is 2 years older? It will inevitably be used, with little or no warranty, but will hopefully do the same thing as the new version.

[Nurhisham Hussein]

Have a look at a user's impressions of the rx1950:

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=377232#377232

[Patrick Y.]

If you don't use bluetooth, I believe that 1950 is better. WM 5 really added some nice features and 300mhz Samsung CPU is actually faster than Intel's pxa255 400mhz processor. It's like comparing AMD with Intel. Also, i don't really like used device. My friend got 5455 on ebay, which is quite old, and there are just many problems, such as the USB connector that broke after 1-2 months of use.

[haesslich]

Honestly, I'd probably either get the 4150 if you need a cheap machine that does email... or spend a bit more and get a machine with more memory. I like the size of my 1950, and it's a decent enough machine... but I kind of wish I could've afforded something with more RAM to run applications - I run Adobe Acrobat, and the thing's choking if I'm reading a large PDF file. Those 10MB of free RAM doesn't go all that far, IMO - and good luck trying to read a page with a lot of graphics. I tried it once, and it practically crashed the machine - took 5 minutes to render half the page, and that was after it'd given up downloading most of the graphics.

Given your requirements, you don't need a speed demon - and the 4150 will do the email just as well as the 1950 will. However, the 1950 does have better battery life, if that's important to you - but do remember the limitations.

[pocketpcadmirer]

Hi chiggachu !!

I think 4150 uses windows mobile 2003 and not SE version

Sunny