Name: HP iPAQ RX1955。2005年WindowsポケットPC体験記 (HP iPAQ RX1955: The 2005 Windows Pocket PC Experience)
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Greetings and welcome to an LGR thing! And today's thing is the Hewlett-Packard

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iPAQ RX1950 PDA, released in September of 2005 for an asking price of $299.

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More specifically though this is a brand new in box, still sealed example of the rather

special model known as the RX1955! Well okay, calling it "special" is a bit of an

exaggeration here. What I mean is that it holds special meaning to *ME* being that

it was my first PDA, or personal digital assistant. The only real difference

between the RX1950 and 1955 is that the former was sold on a corporate market

and the latter was sold at retail. And speaking of retail, PDAs were at the

height of their popularity in the mid 2000s and I'd had my mind set on getting

one for years by 2005. This one stood out to me for several reasons back then but

let's get to some context first. I was 19 years old in 2005, just starting

college, and found myself working odd jobs all over town. The main things I

wanted to do were take notes, listen to MP3s, browse the web through Wi-Fi, and of

course I wanted to play some games while not smiling. Nowadays it's easy enough to

just grab a tablet or a smartphone and be done with it but back then, nah man.

Tablets were way too expensive and cumbersome and my cell phone was one of

these beauties: an LG VX6100. Not exactly a productivity powerhouse with its

resolution of 96 x 64. But hey it had a VGA camera, that was neat! So with my

needs in mind and the technology available, my two real options in 2005 were

a laptop or a PDA. And while a laptop fit most of my needs I didn't really have

the money to get the ones I wanted and the idea of hauling something that large

to class in my already stuffed backpack was not appealing. So that led me to the

iPAQ RX1955, which at the time was one of HP's entry-level PDAs. They had a

whole range of iPAQ devices back then and to be honest, I found most of them

pretty ugly. But not the RX1955. Right on the front of the box you can see why I

chose this model: not only did it look sleek and stylish but it had

built-in Wi-Fi, ran Windows Mobile 5, and featured SDIO card expandability.

These were three things I had almost no experience with at that point and I was

highly intrigued by the possibilities of being able to put my files and MP3s on

an SD card and mess around with all that kind of stuff. But also with Windows

Mobile and the whole Pocket PC ecosystem, and using Windows with a touchscreen was

super appealing to me at the time. And hey check out that Samsung logo on the

box, what's that about? Well the RX1950 series made use of a

300 megahertz Samsung SC32442, which was a 32-bit multi stacked package,

based on the ARM920T core, that integrated a wide array of CPU, memory,

and I/O functions into a single chip 14 millimeters across. The result was that

it may not have been the fastest chip of its day but it was relatively cheap and

drew little power. Enough technical details for the moment, it's time to

break that seal after it's languished in some overstocked warehouse for 13 years!

Oh yeah, this is exciting! I sold off my original rRX1955 forever ago so I

haven't seen this stuff in ages! Atop the first layer of packaging is the

documentation, shrink-wrapped for your protection, as well as this informative

quick start guide on the underside of the box lid, and an equally informative

but less necessary section on the front advertising several of the optional

accessories you could buy from HP. And on the second layer down you get a neat

little tray holding the iPAQ itself and, man. Just holding this again

immediately brings back memories. Although it seems a bit smaller than I remember

somehow, but actually that's probably just because I'm used to using

gargantuan 7-inch smartphones these days. Next you get the USB sync and charging

cable, the power adapter, the battery, and a simple fabric carrying case. Let's go

ahead and open up that documentation bundle before going further though,

starting with the manual that looks more substantial than it really is. There are

only about 45 pages of it per language and most of what it contains can be

learned just by using the device and its built-in tutorials. You also receive a

"Getting Started CD," which contains the software to sync it with a Windows PC

and all that kind of stuff. You also get another ad for more HP products and

accessories, including some lovely-looking leather cases that I still kind of want.

As well as some information on warranties and end-user license

agreements that I, of course, absolutely read cover to cover. And hey look, another

ad, this one for audible.com. Nyeh-heh, yeah not sponsored. Man they just have not let

off the gas have they? And yes that free month still applies

but only because they've never stopped giving away free months to anything that

moves. And hey look, yet another ad, this time for Smartphone and Pocket PC

Magazine. Yeah they must have just rebranded it when they printed this,

I remember when it was just called Pocket PC Magazine for a while. Well enough of that,

time for some plastic peeling perfection!

[crinkly, sticky, plastic-removal sounds]

Ah that feels right. And because I can't wait to play with this again let's just

[battery insertion noises commence, suspense rising in anticipation of its first power-on]

It does! Although it'll certainly need some charging still, though the battery

held enough juice all this time to get through the initial setup. Stuff like

calibrating the touch screen and setting the time of day. Sweet. So to get this

thing charged up using the wall adapter we'll need both that and the Active Sync

cable because there's nowhere to plug this in directly from the wall to the

iPAQ. That goes in the bottom there and then this whole thing plugs into the

PDA. You *can* also charge it directly through USB with a newer third-party

cable, but from the factory you did need both cables combined to get power.

This was pretty normal for PDAs like this. On the top from left to right you get a

three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack, a spot to plug in SD or MMC cards,

and a spot to store your stylus, which is pretty necessary. This doesn't have a

capacitive touchscreen, you will be pressing down to get things to work.

And I always kind of liked how it has this fake SD card, I guess to keep the slot

from getting dirt and crap in there. And instead of putting a little protector on

top they were just like, "here's a blank piece of plastic to put in there."

So turning it on is as simple as pressing the 'on' button. And you get these two LEDs up at

the top: the left one is the Wi-Fi indicator and the right one shows if

it's charging or needs charging. And on the bottom you get some physical buttons.

Mostly they're for shortcuts to applications, but by

default holding down this one actually changes the screen orientation from

portrait to landscape mode, a handy little thing indeed since this doesn't

have any accelerometers or anything to do that automatically. Along the right

hand side here you'll see this little silver switch which is for opening the

battery bay. That's really all that does. On the left-hand side you'll see this

little cassette tape symbol beside this button here, and pressing that

immediately opens up the voice recording mode. And yes this does have a microphone built-in.

[low quality recoding plays back] "This is a direct recording from the iPAQ. Not the greatest microphone

I've ever heard, but not the worst either." Along the bottom is where you plug in

your Active Sync cable and you also get this little port here for IrDA. This is

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