09-09-2002, 09:36 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Eyewittness sighting of the iPAQ 5450
This is one of those completely unsubstantiated rumours, but for those of you who don't venture into the forums and stick to the front page, someone named Strong887 has apparently seen one of the new 5000 series iPAQs:
"I am currently at a Cisco IP Telephony conference in Penn Plaza, NYC and one of the presenters had a HP Ipaq 5450 Pocket PC. It is using the same screen as my 3975 (compared them side by side). Notable is the built in 802.11b with a VERY small antenna (smaller than the one in the picture). It has a removeable battery and the earphone jack is on the bottom of the casing. Supposedly, this model supports a headset connection (speaker and mic) in that plug. A h.323 softphone application was being demoed on it by a company called IP Blue. I verified the asset
information as an HP5450."
Psst...drop the zero, and what do you get? HP 545, the first Pocket PC HP ever made. Hmm...
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09-09-2002, 09:56 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 400
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Ok, so you got pictures right?!? :lol:
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09-09-2002, 10:07 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 390
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What I think,
1. the D-pad button double as biometic input.
2. The picture is so ugly, It can't be fake. lol.
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09-09-2002, 10:13 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 72
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by mookie123
What I think,
1. the D-pad button double as biometic input.
2. The picture is so ugly, It can't be fake. lol.
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The joypad seems above the biometric input area, so I doubt it doubles as it as well. Also, the jopad may be so small and leaves so much free space (as many have remarked in the other thread), because some models may not have the biometric input area, but share the joypad. The higher-end models may simply need all that free space.
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09-09-2002, 11:09 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Sep 2002
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I didn't get any pictures, but it looks just like the one posted, except the antenna is a small nub and it is silkscreened with an HP name.
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09-09-2002, 11:14 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 382
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Re: Eyewittness sighting of the iPAQ 5450
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
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Psst...drop the zero, and what do you get? HP 545, the first Pocket PC HP ever made. Hmm...
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So does that mean the higher end version will be the HP5650? or the 5680?
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09-09-2002, 11:16 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 26
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i've also seen one of these as well... but the one in the pictures does not have the biometric scanner on it. there must be different skews...
i have trouble believing there is a device that can beat the XDA/t-mobile at the price it's at though, MHO.
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09-09-2002, 11:39 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 541
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And the Jornada 545 was a shame to the PocketPC name, SH3, and 256 colour bit screen and all :P
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09-10-2002, 01:32 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 381
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Actually, it wasn't a shame, it didn't have "256 color bit", it had a 12 bit screen, 4096 colors, same as an iPaq then. Though HP could have done better, it was a nice device as it had CF on board, made of metal, flip cover, more elegant and professional design, jog whell, etc. NOW, it's a crappy device compared to the knewer ones, but when it came out, it didn't "bust"...
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09-10-2002, 02:25 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 2
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Hmmm...
I thought that telephony conference was on the SIXTEENTH. Ah well must be one of those less-well known things. I hate going downtown on the "D" train anyway. Always a mess. 
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