HP iPAQ RX 4200 is one of the first HP’s devices marketed as Mobile Media Companion, and also is made as Personal entartainment device. WiFi, Bluetooth, and good battery life will give you more juice while on the go, and EVDO connectivity enables you persistent access to Internet in places where you don’t have WiFi signal.

HP iPAQ RX 4200 Mobile Media Companion Tech Specs:

• Model: HP iPaq rx4200 Mobile Media Companion
• Screen Size: 2.83 inches
• Screen Resolution: QVGA
• Dimensions: 4.02 x 2.5 x 0.689 inch
• Weight: 4.48 ounces
• Memory: 128
• Communications: EVDO
• Battery Type: 1200 mAh Lithium-ion Battery
• Keyboard Type: On-screen
• OS:Windows Mobile 5.0
• Storage Card: SD, SD/MMC

HP iPAQ rx4200 Prices

$344.50 - NovaTechGadgets.com
$310.69 - BuySellLeaseTrade.com

HP iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger has numberpad and is without touchscreen. Also, it’s 2.0" display features great resolution for that size - QVGA. It runs Windows Mobile 6 Standard on top of TI OMAP processor running at 200 MHz which is in our opinion too slow.

HP iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger Tech Specs:

• Model: HP iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger
• Screen Size: 2.0
• Screen Resolution: 320 by 240 pixel (QVGA)
• Dimensions: 4.7 inches tall, 2.8 inches wide, and 0.7 inches thick
• Weight: 5.8 ounces
• Camera Resolution: 1.3 Megapixels
• Memory: 64 MB of RAM and 128 MB of ROM
• Communications: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPRS, GSM, EDGE
• Keyboard Type: T9
• OS: Windows Mobile 6 Standard
• Storage Card: microSD

HP iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger Prices:

$356.21 - Discount Office Items
$218.09 - PROVANTAGE

Sony mylo is a new type of device, mobile Internet device (MID) which is pushed by Nokia, Sony and Apple. It can access the Web, use as Skype phone over WiFi, acts like a camera and uses great WVGA screen. You can also use it as PMP or PDA (for file management, text editor or IM communicator). To say the least, this new type of device is really on track of something more futuristic than existing iPhone or Nokia Internet Tablet. Can’t wait to see more of platform developement and response from Windows Mobile, since, Sony is quite known for rather developing own media devices than going with the masses.

Sony mylo Tech Specs are:

    •    800 by 480 pixel touchscreen
    •    802.11b/g
    •    1.3 Megapixel camera
    •    Sliding QWERTY keyboard
    •    1 GB built in RAM; Memory Stick Pro-Duo slot supporting up to 8 GB
    •    USB 2.0 connection
    •    Music player supports MP3, WMA, AAC, ATRAC
    •    Photos application supports JPG, PNG, BMP
    •    Video player supports MPEG4, AVC

Sony mylo Prices:

J&R Music and Computer World | $299.99
Amazon.com | $299.99
Circuit City | $299.99

HP iPaq 110 Classic is latest HP’s traditional handheld (PDA or Pocket PC). This device, although is a iPaq 1945 successor of some sort, features powerful 624 MHz processor, WiFi b/g and Bluetooth

HP iPaq 110 Classic Tech Specs:

Processor: 624 MHz Marvell XScale PXA310 with hardware video decoding
Operating System: Windows Mobile 6 Classic (Pocket PC)
Display: 3.5 inch, 240 x 320 touchscreen LCD
Memory: 64 MB RAM; 256 MB flash (195 MB available)
Size & Weight: 4.59 inches long x 2.71 inches wide x 0.54 inches thick; 3.68 ounces
Expansion: Single SD slot with SDHC and SDIO support
Docking: Single Mini-USB connector
Communication: 802.11b/g Wi-Fi (supports WPA2); Bluetooth 2.0/EDR
Audio: Internal microphone and speaker; 3.5mm headphone jack
Battery: 1200 mAh replaceable Lithium Ion
Input: 3 remappable application buttons; touchscreen

Pros:

• memory
• processor
• battery life
• multimedia

Cons:

• casing
• buttons

HP iPAQ 110 Classic Prices:

Amazon.com | $290.36
TigerDirect.ca | $284.99
PC Connection | $299.95

Palm Centro was introduced after Treo 680, and despite of moving to Windows Mobile platform, Palm decided to push another smartphone with own OS. With price of $99 with 2-year contract, Centro was a success.

Palm Centro Tech Specs:

Display: 320*320 px touchscreen
Keyboard: integrated QWERTY
Card slot: microSD
Software: Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Memos. Also included are Documents to Go (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and images), VersaMail (email), and a Voice Memo application.
Camera: 1.3 megapixel
Internal memory: 68 MB

Palm Centro Prices:
Best Buy | $349.99
AT&T | $99.99

HP iPaq 210 is high end PDA (or Pocket PC) device with lots of great features including VGA screen and Dual memory slots. Many will compare this device to Axim x50v or HP hx4700. This is the very high-end device.

HP iPaq 210 Tech Specs:

Processor: 624 MHz Marvell XScale PXA310 with hardware video decoding
Operating System: Windows Mobile 6 Classic (Pocket PC)
Display: 4.0 inch, 640 x 480 touchscreen LCD
Memory: 128 MB RAM; 256 MB flash (185 MB available)
Size and Weight: 5.0 inches long x 3.0 inches wide x 0.63 inches wide; 6.8 ounces
Expansion: CompactFlash slot; SD slot with SDHC and SDIO support
Docking: 24-pin iPAQ connector; Mini-USB connector
Communication: 802.11b/g Wi-Fi (supports WPA2); Bluetooth 2.0/EDR
Audio: Internal microphone and speaker; secondary VoIP speaker; 3.5mm headphone jack
Battery: 2200 mAh replaceable Lithium Ion; optional 4400 mAh extended battery
Input: Touchscreen; 5-way directional pad; 3 remappable application buttons

HP iPaq 210 Prices range:

HP | $449.00
Amazon.com | $436.03
TigerDirect.ca | $379.99

In USA, extremly popular HTC Touch is named Verizon XV6900… Here we go with the tech specs:

• Manufcturer: Verizon
• Model: Verizon XV6900
• Screen Size: 2.8 Inch
• Screen Resolution: 320 by 240 pixel (QVGA)
• Dimensions: 4.0 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches
• Camera Resolution: 2 Megapixels
• Memory: 128 MB of RAM, 256 MB of ROM
• Communications: Bluetooth, CDMA
• Keyboard Type: On-screen
• OS: Windows Mobile 6 Professional
• GPS: Yes
• Storage Card: microSD
• Description: Unlike the versions offered by many of its rival, Verizon’s will be GPS enabled. However, it won’t offer either 3G support or Wi-Fi.

Like all devices in the HTC Touch family, the XV6900 have a signature design which emphasizes the touchscreen functionality, and a customized launcher called TouchFLO, designed by HTC to make the device easy to use with fingers instead of a stylus.

Toshiba: $169.99
Amazon.com: $163.90
Anchor Express: $169.99

Apple’s flagship model in 15.4" arena features gorgeous screen, Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 at 2.2 GHz with 4 MB of L2 cache, 120 GB HDD and nVidia 8600 GT graphic card. The rest is pretty much well known, we would only add Firewire 400 and Firewire 800. Face it, the OS is what sells this notebook and here we have Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard.

Apple MacBook Pro Tech Specs:

    •    Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard
    •    Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2GHz (4MB L2 cache, 800MHz frontside bus)
    •    2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
    •    120GB 5400rpm SATA hard disk (also tested with 128GB SSD from DVNation)
    •    15.4" glossy widescreen TFT LED backlit display (1440 x 900)
    •    NVIDIA 8600M GT w/ 128MB
    •    iSight webcam
    •    AirPort Extreme WiFi (IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n) and Bluetooth
    •    DVI, 2 USB, ExpressCard/34, Audio in/out, Firewire 400 and 800, 1Gb Ethernet,
    •    Dimensions : 01 x 14.1 x 9.6 inches
    •    Weight: 5.4 pounds
    •    60Whr Battery, 6 hours estimated
    •    85W MagSafe power adapter with cable management system

Asus M50Sv-A1 is 15.4" notebookwith Penryn processor T9300 running at 2.5 GHz, 3 GB RAM and 250 GB HDD. Other interesting features are Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, 1.3 Megapixel webcam, fingerprint reader and 802.11 b/g/n wireless card.

Asus M50Sv-A1 Tech Specs are:

    •    Processor: Intel Core 2 Penryn processor T9300 2.5GHz 6MB 800FSB
    •    Graphics: nVidia GeForce 9500m GS 512MB DX10
    •    Operating system: Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit
    •    Memory: 3GB DDR2 667MHz (1GB + 2GB); supports up to 4GB
    •    Display: 15.4" WXGA+ (1440 x 900) glossy
    •    Hard drive: 250GB 5400rpm
    •    Optical drive: 8X DVD/RW Double layer Super Multi Drive
    •    Ports & slots: 4x USB 2.0, HDMI, eSATA, IEEE 1394, Express card, 8 in 1 media card reader, VGA, microphone-in, headphone-out, Ethernet
    •    Wireless: Intel 802.11a/g/n
    •    Battery: 6 Cell
    •    Other features: Built in Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, 1.3MP swivel webcam, fingerprint reader
    •    Dimensions: 14.2" x 10.5" x 1.6"
    •    Weight: 6.5lbs
    •    Warranty: Asus 2-year limited global hardware warranty + 1-year accidental damage warranty, + 30 days zero bright dot LCD warranty.
    •    MSRP: $1,359
    •    System configured with Windows XP Pro: $1,504

Pros:

• display
• Altec Lansing speakers
• great price

Cons:

• battery life
• placement of ports

Asus M50Sv-A1 Prices:

Directron.com | $1,399.99
Techonweb.com | $1,418.21
TheNerds.net | $1,394.99
Colamco | $1,437.13
PcSuperDeals | $1,416.33

Toshiba Satellite L355D is desktop replacement notebook with 17" screen. Starting at $739 you get TruBrite screen, webca, ATI Radeon X1250 graphic card, AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core processor running at 2.0 GHz and 2 GB RAM.

Satellite L355D-S809 specifications:

    •    Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (SP1, 32-bit version)
    •    AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-60 (2.0 GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, HyperTransport Technology @ up to 800MHz)
    •    2GB PC5300 DDR2 SDRAM memory (Maximum capacity 4GB)
    •    200GB (4200 RPM) Serial ATA hard disk drive
    •    DVD SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) with Labelflash drive supporting 11 formats
    •    17.1" diagonal widescreen TruBrite TFT LCD display with 1440×900 native resolution (WXGA+)
    •    ATI Radeon X1250 128MB-831MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory
    •    Built-in stereo speakers
    •    Atheros 802.11 b/g wireless-LAN
    •    3 USB Sleep-and-Charge ports, 5 in 1 SD-Card Reader, 10/100 LAN, 56k Modem
    •    Built-in Webcam and microphone
    •    4000mAh 10.8v battery and 75w AC Adapter
    •    Weight: 7lbs 0.6oz
    •    Dimensions: 15.6 x 11.4 x 1.8"
    •    One-year standard Limited Warranty

Pros:

• keyboard
• finishing
• case

Cons:

• no firewire

Toshiba Satellite L355D Prices:

Amazon.com | $749.99
Buydig.com | $699.00
Beach Camera | $699.00