Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Geekzone Review the HP rz1710
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "HARDWARE" @ 01:00 AM
"There has been great despair in the Palm camp as of the release of the Tungsten T5 (with good reason). Mauricio took advantage of this and threw me one of the new iPAQs to review, since I'm a Palm user for a while now - trying to convince me to change? The HP iPAQ rz1710 is the replacement for the 1900 series, a low end, basic Pocket PC with enough grunt for basic users and a price to match (~NZ$400). But can it live up to the quality of its predecessors?"
J Shiell from Geekzone certainly got a mixed deal here. On the plus side he got a Pocket PC to play with, but on the negative side, it was a rz1710, which is the new HP entry level model replacing the 1940. (Power users, this isn’t the PDA you are looking for ;-)). His review seems to be a decent summing up of this device, i.e. that it’s a small, reasonable low-end device, let down by being hugely overpriced. If a model is being replaced by one that is slower and has less memory and features, you would expect it to cost less, right? Apparently not. :? Still, I would agree with Geekzone that there’s nothing wrong with this unit that a massive price cut would not fix. The more low cost PPCs out there, the better. The users will upgrade to a more powerful unit at some point and as they say, the more, the merrier. :wink:
J Shiell from Geekzone certainly got a mixed deal here. On the plus side he got a Pocket PC to play with, but on the negative side, it was a rz1710, which is the new HP entry level model replacing the 1940. (Power users, this isn’t the PDA you are looking for ;-)). His review seems to be a decent summing up of this device, i.e. that it’s a small, reasonable low-end device, let down by being hugely overpriced. If a model is being replaced by one that is slower and has less memory and features, you would expect it to cost less, right? Apparently not. :? Still, I would agree with Geekzone that there’s nothing wrong with this unit that a massive price cut would not fix. The more low cost PPCs out there, the better. The users will upgrade to a more powerful unit at some point and as they say, the more, the merrier. :wink:
