Manufacturer: Hewlett Packard Model#: H19.45 Weight: .26lbs Height: .50"     Width: 2.75" Length: 4.46" Average Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars	Retail Price: $299.99 Online Sale Price:
Features: A thin, light, and affordable Pocket PC Includes mobile versions of Microsoft Office: Pocket Outlook, Word, and Excel Integrated Bluetooth for wireless communication with other Bluetooth devices Great multimedia features What's in the box: iPaQ 1945, USB synchronization cable, AC Adapter, battery, charger adapter, audio adapter, iPAQ Pocket PC companion CD

User Submitted HP iPAQ 1945 Pocket PC Reviews (cont...)

Anyway, what's really ticking me off right now is a mysterious, random hard-reset problem. It started around Thanksgiving, when one day I was on the subway and needed to check the address of my client, so I whipped out the 1945 and to my great horror, it performed a hard reset on its own, giving me the middle-finger salute with the ugly HP welcome screen that you only see after a hard reset. I had just recharged the battery, and the unit wasn't even 3 months old, so I was totally horrified.

That was just the beginning of my problems. Ever since then the unit would turn itself off without warning, and occasionally (to be fair, not all the time) it would just hard-reset on its own. I don't think this kind of behavior is acceptable at all in a PDA. You buy a PDA to store information and retrieve it whenever you need it, not to stare at a blank screen at your most critical moment.

Other people in my group also have various problems with the 1945, from broke backlight on one unit to frequent syncing problems on another to inaccurate digitizer on yet another. BTW I've always had syncing problems with IPAQs in the past, and still do these days: when I hook up my iPaq to my Win XP machine, it would take almost 5 minutes for the sync to start. Every day, using the iPaq 1945 is a very frustrating experience, and sluggish performance (even in Calendar and Contacts) is only the least of it.

Stay away from these poor products. It's your money and you deserve better. For Pocket PC's, Toshiba seems to be putting its act together and has come out with some very good models, including the VGA-resolution (640x480) e800/e805.

Date: 2004-01-02
IPAQ-GREAT PRODUCT!!!!!
I bought the IPAQ h1945 a few days ago and it has been great! No problems except for a program froze up, and it was the program's fault and not the IPAQ's. As far as the yellow tint issue, it is so suttle unless you try to see it or unless you have it on a 45 degree amgle. If you are really worried about the color/tint, go to Bestbuy or similar and actually give it a try. I almost bought a Dell Axim X5 but they were not avail at any store for a test drive, a big downside, buying blind online. I am so happy with the IPAQ's small design, it is great. Its awesome for music. It cam play MP3 and WMA and can be upgraded free to play MPEG movies by installing free pocket tv for pocket pc. This thing has a better speaker than my dad's laptop! Also. people who gripe about the headphone adapter probably haven't bought this thing, its only lile 3 inches long, so unless you have wireless headphones (cool) you shouldn't be worried. Battery life is great! No worries! Great file storage space. Also, you can get tons of free games for it at windowsmobile.com and download.com. Great investment! Cool!

Date: 2003-12-22
Great PDA. Love It!!!
I currently own a Pallm V and decided I wanted to benefit from the richer functionality and interface of the Pocket PC. I did a lot of research and settled on the 1945.

Pluses
-Great form factor. Smaller and lighter than my Pallm V.
-Great screen, i.e. brightness, contrast, color, sharpness, etc. I don't really notice the yellowish tint that other reviews (here and on other sites) have mentioned.
-Great price. I purchased one refurbished by HP from a company called Pallmking, which is one of the vendors listed under 'buy new/used'. I paid $218+$8 for expedited shipping. I ordered it on a Friday and received on the following Wednesday.
-Very fast. Many of the reviews said this as well and attribute it to the 266mhz processor.

Cons
-No screen protector. The ones I found in the store are twice as much as compared to other PDA's (i.e. $20 for 12 as compared to $10 for most other PDA's)
-Documentation is terrible and is basically useless.
-Blue tooth difficult to setup.
-Only one expansion slot and it is SD. There seems to be fewer devices for SD and they seem more expensive as compared to CF.
-Very limited selection of 801.11b wireless cards. Only could find two (Socket Comm and ScanDisk) and they were $100+ and did not get very good reviews.

I also looked hard at the HP 1935, but it was slower (203mhz) and didn't have Bluetooth.

Bluetooth was a bear to get working, but now that I have it has been really cool. I use for wireless web browsing, activesync, and file transfers. Some sights to help you with this are:

http://www.pc-counselor.com/How_to/bluetooth_network.htm - For setting up the wireless web browsing (this was very painful to setup)

http://www.bluetoothnews.com/features/ActiveSync.htm - For setting up activesync.

http://www.bluetooth.com/ - Official bluetooth site

I purchased a Hawking USB bluetooth device for $31 from Amazon and it has worked great (just make sure you download the most current driver)

Some good general PocketPC sites are:

http://www.brighthand.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/resources/downloads/pocketpc/default.mspx - Has several good downloads.

Overall I am extremely happy and satisfied with the 1945!!

Date: 2003-12-21
Great PDA. Love It!!!
I currently own a Pallm V and decided I wanted to benefit from the richer functionality and interface of the Pocket PC. I did a lot of research and settled on the 1945.

Pluses
-Great form factor. Smaller and lighter than my Pallm V.
-Great screen, i.e. brightness, contrast, color, sharpness, etc. I don't really notice the yellowish tint that other reviews (here and on other sites) have mentioned.
-Great price. I purchased one refurbished by HP from a company called Pallmking, which is one of the vendors listed under 'buy new/used'. I paid $218+$8 for expedited shipping. I ordered it on a Friday and received on the following Wednesday.
-Very fast. Many of the reviews stated this as well and attribute it to the 266mhz processor.

Cons
-No screen protector. The ones I found in the store are twice as much as compared to other PDA's (i.e. $20 for 12 as compared to $10 for most other PDA's)
-Documentation is terrible and is basically useless.
-Blue tooth difficult to setup.
-Only one expansion slot and it is SD. There seems to be fewer devices for SD and they seem more expensive as compared to CF.
-Very limited selection of 801.11b wireless cards. Only could find two (Socket Comm and ScanDisk) and they were $100+ and did not get very good reviews.

I also looked hard at the HP 1935, but it was slower (203mhz) and didn't have Bluetooth.

Bluetooth was a bear to get working, but now that I have it has been really cool. I use for wireless web browsing, activesync, and file transfers. Some sights to help you with this are:

http://www.pc-counselor.com/How_to/bluetooth_network.htm - For setting up the wireless web browsing (this was very painful to setup)

http://www.bluetoothnews.com/features/ActiveSync.htm - For setting up activesync.

http://www.bluetooth.com/ - Official bluetooth site

I purchased a Hawking USB bluetooth device for $31 from Amazon and it has worked great (just make sure you download the most current driver)

Some good general PocketPC sites are:

http://www.brighthand.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/resources/downloads/pocketpc/default.mspx - Has several good downloads.

Overall I am extremely happy and satisfied with the 1945!!