Apparently, the folks at BrightHAnd’s somehow managed to get their hands onto an hp ipaq 210 - and have posted a “first-impressions” mini-review here.
The reviewer is pretty happy with the device, however, he notes that the touchscreen takes more pressure than usual and that the device takes too long when powering on:
The 4-inch, 640-by-480-pixel screen is beautiful, and while it requires more pressure to activate the digitizer than most devices, I’ve found it not too hard to adapt to. The extra size makes the default Windows Mobile Classic interface practically finger-friendly.
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The extra-large (2200 mAh) battery takes forever to charge, but it should take forever to drain, too.
……For one, I’m less than thrilled with the iPAQ’s power on performance. If you leave the Wi-Fi active when you turn the device off, when turned back on it requires longer than it really should to wake up. The delay is only a couple of seconds, but that’s more than the near-zero lag that’s normal with Windows Mobile 6 devices. I hope that HP fixes this in a ROM update fairly quickly, because it’s just annoying.
To be fair, once the device is on its performance is quite good, and none of the other standard software has shown any glaring issues, but I’m definitely left with the feeling that the 210 would benefit from a good solid ROM update. That’s disappointing in a device that’s been as long coming to market as this one has — HP should have had all the kinks worked out.
Anyways, I am tuned to find out how the whole review goes - and rest assured that we’ll have our own review up soon!
