HP Discontinue Flagship hx4700 PocketPC

Paul-m · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject:

I have a HP 5550 and a HX4700. I must say the 4700 is so much better. The screen is the best ive seen and i simply couldnt use a lesser model now.

However, I got mine through my work and although its a great product i couldnt justfy the cost to buy one personally. The only real use is GPS navigation and RSS feed reading. Hardly worth £300+. Anything else and i just need a laptop.

Now if the 4700 had a small keyboard, built in GPS and GSM phone as well as memory in the MB's then it might be a serious device. Just a question of time i think. The forthcoming 6700 will go some way towards this i hope.

Just for info i used the ROM and BIOS upgrade and it seems much better as well as seemingly more memory.

Darren · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:34 am Post subject:

Oldie · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:56 am Post subject:

Oldie · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject:

All sorted now :D It would appear that my PC and iPAQ were trying to exchange information via Outlook and neither a soft reset on the iPAQ nor a reboot of the PC would clear it. As I use BT Yahoo Mail I rarely open Outlook, but for some reason I did today and the so called crosstalk was cleared. Phew!
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wetsleet · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:24 pm Post subject:

What is this all about? http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/sm/WF05a/21675-21679-21679-21679-297609-8115561.html

Looks like the HX4700 is alive and well again. Usually we get teaser campaigns about the birth of a product - HP seem to have invented (that is what they do, isn't it?) a new marketing paradigm - the end of life teaser.

Anyway, on to the meat. I am one of those still faithful to the Daddy of them all, the venerable Psion, in this case the Series 5. Maybe I just have a thing about obsolete PDA's, as I am now belatedly considering an HX4700. My difficulty is in giving up the big wide screen and magic keyboard of the Psion. The HX4700 has a half decent screen, hence the draw, but is a tad short of a keyboard. I guess my question to you old-timers is this:
How do you cope with just a stick as an input device? I mean, how do you do a spreadsheet, how do you enter someone's contact details, good gracious how do you do (I can't say "type") a Word document. I mean, the HX4700 has all those apps, but how on earth do you exploit them, with a stick? I have to know, because sadly Mr Potter never paid much attention to build quality and it is proving the undoing of my Series 5. Death, I fear, is near!

davewave1 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 09, 2004 Posts: 40

Has anyone seen any news about a replacement for the hx4700?

Dell have had the x51v out for some time and their does not seem to be much news about a replacement for that either. Is the high end PPC market dying?

Darren · Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 6:39 pm Post subject:

The rumour is a WM5 version of the 4700 is imminent.
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davewave1 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 09, 2004 Posts: 40

Thanks Darren, I'll hold on for that :D

Mikeact · Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject:

Darren · Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 11:02 pm Post subject:

mrg2003 · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:48 am Post subject: 4700 wm5

I've downgraded back to 2003SE, as wm5 slowed the device down and kept on crashing.

Noony · Lifetime Member Joined: Oct 13, 2003 Posts: 135

I used to own a HX4700 and I nearly did the same thing, however, if you google a bit you will find some registry tweaks that might make everything good. The first thing to do is switch off error reporting in the settings/system tab, this makes an immmediate difference.

Just thought I would mention this in case you still wanted to try WM5 again. I personally would never go back to 2003SE I had too many crashes that lost me data.

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