Ha, that intro. The world of KZfaq retro tech coverage is amusingly small indeed. Oh well, hooray for more PocketPC coverage! Looking forward to seeing more of that camera in action :)

When I saw bonzi buddy in the thumbnail I knew this was my video

Man, this thing back in 2003 must have been amazing

My grandpa gave me a couple of those to mess around with when I was in middle school ~6 years ago. Great fun. Also helped me type some last-minute school assignments before I had my own laptop.

Opera literally runs on everything, it runs on vista, xp, windows phone, Mac, Linux, iOS Android, Blackberry Java ME, Sony Ericsson, Nintendo DS, even on Nokia brick phones... (and that’s just naming a few) well, pretty much as cross platform as it can get If you have a device and it can connect to the internet, chances are, you can probably download opera on it

*expand dong*

Wow when he shows the video on the ipaq. Me looking on my screen looking at the screen of the ipaq, looking at a screen in the video looking at a screen. Screen inception!

I had that exact HP! I used it to emulate NES and listen to music and it was so cool. There was an Opera browser for it that gave it better website functionality. Edit: yeah you mentioned it later in the video :)

I enjoy how you talk about the products, so much detail and its just fun to watch. Please keep making more videos(:

That is such a cool portable PC! I love this vintage tech. I wish Microsoft would make a modern refresh of this portable PC.

Can't remember if I had this particular model, but I definitely had a pocket PC that ran this OS when I was a kid. Loved it to pieces. I remember loading low bitrate music files on it and drawing things with it during long car rides. I vividly remember playing that jawbreaker game in sunday school when I got really bored(The teacher assumed I was taking notes(????) and didn't mind me using it). One day, the kid next to me narc'd on me and I got in trouble. I have no regrets. Thanks for dredging these memories back into my conscious mind, great video as always, Elf.

I had exactly that iPAQ and I loved it. I did a lot of work with it and I loved Windows for Pocket PC. I also loved the design of the iPAQ and all it's gadgets.

I had exactly that model back in the early 2000's. Remember it very fondly. If you get one program for it - get Age of Empires. Surprisingly well produced version. Basically the same as the desktop version

This device was my first introduction to smart devices this video brings a lot of good old memories

Amazing video as usual, worth the wait.

I'll have to buy one of these one day, they look so fun to mess around with. I'm glad you made a video on Pocket PCs, there don't seem to be too many of decent quality on KZfaq. Small portable devices fascinate me for some reason, it's interesting to see little computers with not much memory run cool programs that do tasks that normally require a regular PC.

Ahh I had two of these (an older one in grayscale and one in color) and thought it was the best thing ever. I loved being able to sit in bed and browse the internet. I even wrote journals and essays in it - with the stylus. Yes, tapping out one letter at a time.

Holy crap I just watched LGR's old video on this thing! Still gonna watch this tho, your style's different

Aw, man, time to dig out my HP IPAQ HX4700 for Pocket PC Month! I had no clue about the existence of Opera Mini on Pocket PCs, looks so smooth! I didn't know about Nevo, either. I recall looking for a program for my pocket PC years ago that did the same job as Nevo does. Nice video, and no, we don't think you're copying Clint. ;)

Loved the intro to this video, and if anyone complains about you doing similar content to LGR don't pay them any attention, as I think more good content on this kind of stuff is awesome, and I can't wait to see that camera module in action, as one of my first digital cameras was a stand alone 1MP HP with a 64MB Compact Flash card. :-)

Good stuff. I really enjoy these videos!

Wow you took me back some years... Both me and my father used to own a HP pocket pc and they were the best at the time... I can really remember my father playing jawbreaker all the time and he had actually almost destroyed the screen at the bottom left corner where the bubble would gather at the end of the game... Ahh memories...

I saw lgr before I saw you and this is the first video I'm watching ever from tour channel

My grandfather had one of these, it was the coolest thing ever

having been a user of a hp Windows CE PDA when i was younger, i cant belive how far we come

Ipad, ipaq sound similar =D

I remember having one of these with a CF WiFi card, and a foldable keyboard that the it docked into. How cool was I, taking notes during lectures on my PDA :-D

I have two pocket pcs I did have multiple videos on one of them. and you simply cannot beat that super nostalgic jawbreaker game

This is such a throwback

I've still got my HP Ipaq, I used it so much back in the day, it is now in the box in my wardrobe and that's where it stayed for the last 14 years! I bought it for about £450 when it was brand new and it also had space for an SD and Compact Flash memory cards. Luckily I bought an extended warranty. I wore the screen out twice so that needed to be replaced and I got that done under the warranty!

I had an NEC p300, thing was amazing. It used the CF port for a wifi card. I could connect to any wifi with it and browse through whatever computers connected to the wifi. Warwalker/wardriver’s dream.

I remember when I started working at a supermarket only a few years ago, my department used PDAs kind of like these, running Windows Mobile. They were painfully slow and typing was a nightmare if there wasn't a stylus with a unit. Luckily we soon upgraded to Motorola PDAs that ran on Android and felt more like a modern smartphone.

The most underatted youtube channel

I love your vids! Keep it up!!

I still remember Bubble Pop from my Samsung Pocket PC and the updates from windows mobile 6.2 up to 6.8 I love the nostalgic of this video

Ahhhh I remember a friend back than having such a device. I loved it :) It even had the WMP Visualizer xD

Dont stop what your doing good work

Ah, those (fond) memories... Never read as many (e)books as back when I had a little PocketPC from Asus, with that Microsoft Reader. Which eventually led me to buy a couple of e-readers later on. Quite a capable little machine , that was indeed. Cheers to more videos on that subject!

Windows Phone 2003.

Great video! I didn't even KNOW we had these in 2003!

Back when I was a teenager and mobile computing was an unobtainable luxury to gawk at, I thought PDAs were the coolest thing ever. Now in the age of ubiquitous smartphones I'm more cynical about the whole thing. Guess I'm getting old now. (Ironically I am writing this on a tablet.)

Wow! how did I not find this channel earlier! subbed

My dad had a similar PDA looking device that probably ran the same operating system at the time. He also had the iGPS-CF adaptor for aviation applications. I remember connecting it to the internet from the docking connector.

Cool videos bro I remember that old phone model memories wow cool keep rocking

I had one of these in middle school... Quite a few years after they came out. Best yard sale find ever though.

I remember using these in middle school. Best handheld computers for their time!

I recently bought a Dell Axim x41v for a presentation about PDAs, I too installed Opera Mini (the way it works is that the page is rendered and the JavaScript executed on the Opera servers and then gets sent to your device, that's probably why most current websites still look fine on it). I still haven't found a universal remote control app like the one you showed, because with that it would at least be partially useful to me.

fun fact it can also run the famous Viola-Jones face detection algorithm at 2 fps, as reported by "Rapid object detection using a boosted cascade of simple features" (Viola, P.; Jones, M., 2001)

Very cool trip down memory lane. I had a very cool Sprint compact flash CF2031 3G data/voice card that I was able to add to my plan as $10 add-a-phone and with VPN software was able to remote into work and make network changes via telnet. This 2004 era device was the forefather to smartphones and tablets.

I had a Dell Axim and LOVED IT!

I had that. Used it in high school. It was pretty awesome.

Why when I was young I never heard of this thing and I was out of highschool in 2003 but still was more into video games back then. This reminds me of the iPhone a lot with its docking and the name iPaq.

I remember lusting after one of these back in the day, haha. How things change.

You should do one on the Palm TX. Palm's last (or close to it) and most powerful PDA. Wifi, Bluetooth, Optional Tom Tom GPS Navigation, great little device. Also did full screen video, web, mp3 ect... The best thing about it was the strong third party and home brew software. Media players for more exotic file formats (back then exotic anyway), total UI overhauls, game emulators and more. The calendar and scheduling (especially with 3rd party apps but even without) offered fantastic customization.

Dad found one of these on a college campus and we had a great deal of fun with it before finding the original owner and returning it. Unlike the model in your video, ours used a tiny hard disk drive. Also, at the time there was a website just for mobile computers that had low-resolution versions of popular videos. We put that HD to good use. Years later, I would get my first smartphone, the T-mobile Dash (HTC Excalibur), which had Windows Mobile 5. Windows Mobile/CE was very flexible, just like PC Windows. For instance, I could get free (slow) Internet by calling the school's aging dail-up gateway instead of paying T-mobile for data - likely a legacy feature from WinMo's palm computing days. The only thing it lacked was an app store - finding apps that worked was a challenge, but I had fun with it. If you want to find more apps, be on the lookout for mobile software collection discs. I found one for Palm OS, so I bet there's some out there for Windows Mobile.

I remember well getting the original Compaq Ipaq for Christmas. Before she wrapped it, my partner at the time said I should check it out as it was quite expensive at launch. I'd explored practically everything it could do under half an hour, never did find a practical use for it in the end, although I was obviously a gluton for punishment as I also had a PocketPC phone a couple of years later, a Palm Treo phone (which I actually loved and really miss) and a Palm Tungsten T3. I still have the PocketPC phone, it'll start up but the batteries are dead and it bootloops a lot, and the Palm Tungsten T3 which actually still works perfectly to this day, which I mostly used with an early TomTom release before they made their own systems, this was great locally in the UK but hopeless further afield, getting lost in deepest darkest France was not my idea of fun.

I was SO in love with my handspring visor...lol I had absolutely no use for it, but damn...I played with that thing every single day for months!

I remember when I bought the original Compaq iPaq Pocket PC 3650 from Sears back in August or September of 2000. In my last year of highschool, I remember using it to take notes and had a couple other programs through 2001 and up till early 2002 I remember that I had it.

I’ve got a Pocket PC from 2003 or so. I wish it ran DOS and Sierra games. It seems like such an elementary thing for a 2003 computer, even a pocket computer, to be able to do.

Very cool video! Would love to see more about Windows Mobile PPC esp comparing WM5 & 6 phones to what else was out at the time & what we have now. I was a BlackBerry guy & preferred it over WM when it came to getting stuff done. WM seemed more an OS that tried to do it all & had no primary goal.

Great video mate 👍👍👍 Intresting product

Thank you so much for this video 👍🏻👌🏻✌🏻

Great vids!!

I had such a HP thing bought 2004. I mainly used it for car navigation with some version of Navigon running on it. You had to copy your planned route to the SD- or CF-Card (mine had both), because they had capacities measured in KB instead of GB.

Impressive Tech for the age =D

I actually did write documents on it back in the day. I had so much more patience then.

I remember my PDA - gloofish m800. It runs Windows CE 6.0 and i spent many many hours playing full port of Age of Empires

My last and favorite PocketPC. I loved that thing! Edited: Mine last model was an HP h4150. Still, Pocket Pcs were awesome.

That nostalgia though! I remember playing Monopoly on mine more than I actually used any productivity apps. What a time to be alive...

Nice video! For some reason youtube didn't notify me when you uploaded so I had to find it by myself 🤔

We found one of these while me and my dad was walking, but it wasnt really that good, so we returned it to the owner once we found him.

Oh wow. Nostalgia. I bought an IPaq (with the modem) when i was completing my masters degree back in early 2000's. I remember playing Age of Empires on it all night (while plugged to a wall outlet). Those where the days. 😄

This is so interesting, i kind of want one

I had the samsung code that used this windows back in the day loved it

I remember hacking my PSP to run the Java version of Opera Mini with PSPKVM. The difference was night and day vs. the stock browser. Sadly, it couldn't play videos in the browser for whatever reason. Anyways; thanks for unlocking that memory because the Pocket PC version looked very similar. I haven't tried it yet, but, supposedly you can emulate Java very well on Android by installing the PPSSPP emulator and then running PSPKVM like you would a game. Sorry for going off topic.

I remember using my pocket PC with a SNES emulator. It was funky to control, and I think I tried connecting something over bluetooth like a keyboard or controller but it wouldn't work. So I played SNES games with the funky controls of the dell axim and got over it. Also i'm not sure how many people did this but I remember buying games that came with windows mobile versions.

I've been waiting for a new video

2:40 At least on the rx3700 series (I had a rx3715 back in the day), the same left indicator that lights up for Bluetooth, also flashes green when programs told Windows Mobile to "vibrate" the device. 3:34 I remembered that ActiveSync would automatically open and sync when I docked my rx3715 to the NEC PC I had at the time. 3:45 I just remembered, there was a program called "MyMobiler" which allowed the PDA display to be viewed and interacted with on the PC. That came in pretty handy as I didn't need to take my hands off of the keyboard and mouse. 3:49 There was a program called "eXPerience" that was a custom launcher for WM2003SE that provided a WinXP style screen, though it didn't replace the Today screen like with the HP launcher on the rx series, but instead provided a Today item to access it from there. 6:45 I *very much* remember using that on mine. 7:44 I remember having a cracked copy of Opera Mobile (I think it was version 8, and Opera wasn't selling any more licences for that version at the time) installed.

I love the iPaq. Used one recently.

I would rather watch your videos than LGR's, so please never let that stop you

dang, still remember exactly using the same PDA at the 1st day work at that time...:)

This thing in 2003. Wow am impressed!

I HAD an HP, pocket PC. I remember loving it. One day, I set itdown, forgot all about it, until right now!!! Forgot about it, for 20 years!!! I have zero recollection of what hgappened to that thing.... Man, I want one back...

Compaq also had a desktop line of Windows PCs called 'iPaqs.' I was a PC tech a long time ago (2000-2001) and I unboxed about 200 of them (and heavy 19" Samsung CRTs), and put Windows 98 images on them via Ghost one summer. Good times. You're lucky that iPaq has USB. Most of our PDAs back then were DB9 serial, including my Palm IIIc. :-)

A whole month dedicated to pocket pcs ? Great idea since there's not a lot of videos of these things, you should get a PPC 2000 / 2002 as well !

awesome video 😎

Takes me back :D I had one as a kid :p

Good work

I got a pda through cereal box tops it was actually pretty cool.. crazy how times have changed so quickly

I remember having one when i was 11, still got it somewhere.

I have these and tonnes of downloaded games and emulators . Fun back then.

My father handed down a Palm m515, and before that, a Palm IIIx to me a long time ago. I really liked them at the time.

I used to have it in the 2000s, it was so cool in high school, haha.

Love it when there's the inception of screens, keep it up! Also... *_EXPAND DONG_*

I had several different models of the ipaq, and the place where I worked sold them (along with palms).

I liked my pocket pc's running various windows operating systems, but preferred my Palm OS devices. I still carry a Treo along with my Android smartphone. There are too many databases and apps for the Palm that I wouldn't want to do without. Like the Treo, I liked the ability on the Pocket PC's to let you easily swap the battery.

Yeah but your videos are about a thousand times better than LGR'S keep up the awesome work

Damn my childhood...time really flies FAST

I had the iPAQ 2210... Think it's identical and maybe just a localised version. Man... I had Age of Empires on it. You would be amazed at how well that plays on it!!!

your channel is just gold enjoys every upload and can you make a video about windows me