Small correction Janus. The LCD here is not transflective, but reflective. Reflective LCDs have the backlight (in case if they have) in front of the LCD layer. Like here in 740 you can see the cathode lamp below the screen. Transflective LCDs in PPC appeared 1-2 years later. Whats interesting, the first PPCs had transmissive LCDs, and its the only the type we use today stiil.

Fantastic teardown, and a soothing voice to go along with it. Hope your channel gets more attention man, you deserve it.

I actually had one of these in 10th grade. That'd have been 2010, it still worked like a charm even if it was way out of date by then. Truly loved it. It ended up dying when it fell behind my dresser and was crushed by the very dresser when I moved out.

So wonderful to see that thing power up. Brings back memories. I had one of these in high school. So cool. Even though it was definitely a bit nerdy. I even had a small foldable keyboard that came from Toshiba that you connected this to to take notes in class. Lol

I really liked your channel and the type of videos you post, I bet it will grow a lot!

I just pulled put my toshiba e830w to see if i can have some fun with it. 2004-2005?? I think it was from, a gift when i was in high school. Amazing to see how far and how fast tech has advanced.

Hahahaha... So many hilarious nuances only a nineties teenager would understand. :) This project was great, and who'd have thought a McDonald's stirrer would be such a great workaround.

this tech old yet it looks new.. since we never see this kind of experience before.. wish to see more of your content look like this where we can see how old tech works and exploit or upgrade it to latest version of it in that era.. so satisficed..

Whoa that demo is awesome! I got so salty after getting the vga adapter for this realizing it was just an expansion port. The ati logo on it made me think the 'vga out' chip was inside it.

Oh man this is a nostalgia bomb. I do remember seeing this in catalogues and wondering if wifi or bluetooth would be better!

Nice, you should seek out a VGA resolution PPC like the Dell x50v.

I rocked one of these back in the day. Kicked the arse of the iPaq competition of the time.

Excellent work! Love the JPG hardware decoding performance. Guess if you had a GPS card you might be able to run some kind of GPS-based game? Or at least a sat-nav app.

Kick ass!!! Subbed! You should do a history of PDA's with tear downs video. This is porn for me!

Thanks for this. I was curious as i have a couple of these with batteries that i was thinking of getting out and seeing if i could put linux on them. Interesting teardown and demo. Thanks.

I still have my e740. After a bunch of failed attempts at running linux I finally got it to work with help from Spyro. It was never very functional, but I still apreaciate all the hard work he did to get this thing to boot linux.

Active Sync, who doesn't love it 😂 reminds me of my HTC Touch Diamond 😅

This makes me want to dig out my old HTC Touch Diamond. Oh my, I was so disappointed when I got it second hand in around 2010. Not only did it come with a burnt loudspeaker, but also after having used Symbian on Nokia E50 (and others), this phone just felt incredibly outdated and clunky to use as a phone! Needless to say I quickly quit using the slow and resource intensive HTC touch interface (Sense?) and just used the vanilla Windows Phone 6.1 interface (which the touch inferface very often brought you to anyway). I envy people being blown away by this Toshiba e740 - Windows Mobile (or CE or whatever) must've felt really awesome and cool in around 2002. But in 2008/2009 from which years the Touch Diamond was, it felt incredibly outdated, lifeless kind of (interface looking more like Windows 95 at a time when Vista had been out!). What a bummer. The Touch Diamond seemed so awesome on paper - VGA screen! (at the time all MDA/PDAs still had QVGA), it had GPS as WELL as WIFI (many, many devices on my radar had either one or the other). 4GB of internal storage. Sadly no SD card slot. Neither any audio jack - you had to use the miniUSB output (oh, how ahead of its time...but it had BT 2.0 with A2DP ohoho). Battery life was horrendous (another reason why I stuck to my E50 as a daily driver, which itself had a shitty battery life, but not as bad :D). My came with 2 batteries and when I used it for GPS when travelling, you really needed to have two batteries :D. GPS worked great on overcast days, sometimes I wouldn't get a GPS fix at all on sunny days... mind boggled. Oh it had an accelerometr which was a hot new thing at that period. 528 MHz CPU which served as a great hand heater any time of the year. I did not even like the design that much and the physical buttons were bad (d-pad completely useless). I got it for the screen, GPS and Wifi, and it was quite affordable.

Oh wow.... i had that one! i loved it! so sleek and small

provided there were some custom roms it would have been easily usable and up to date up untill the very end of windows mobile era! Makes you wonder why smartphones did not break out into mainstream around 2005 with so many devices being made back in 2002/2003 with the feature set pretty much comparable with 2009 smartphones when they finally made into mainstream.

Great vid!

Had the Audiovox Maestro, Im sure its just a rebranded Toshiba PDA. Brings back all the memories, I had to make a portable charger -from rechargeable AA batteries, so I could play MP3 from it in my daily 1.5hr bus commute.

I really enjoy you video i had a Toshiba meself once. Where is the time.

way back in the year 2007 I've used such a device in the shower (sealed in a plastic bag) for playing mp3s from my local NAS, it work for a few years too.

I usev to have that including the expenyio hardware to connet external monitor. As I remember I also had problem with screen turning off on external monitor.

Interesting review, I wonder how do you keep all your resistive devices' external membranes so clean and pristine, mine got horribly scratched after some rounds of Solitaire and it seems quite irreversible, I'm thinking about installing a film to protect the membrane but it dulls the drag and drop more than I would like.

No north/southbridge? Didn't they all have a north/southbridge back then? Since this has flash memory I guess a Northridge would have been enough but I'd be surprised if that cpu had the functions integrated back then.

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The monitor was flickering likely due to refresh rate not synching property

Running Tomb Raider on a Pocket PC? I will have to look for specs on the HP iPAQ HW6915 I once had and the tentative more powerful iPAQ 214 or the Glisten (according to Wikipedia)

Hi please make a video on how to connect it to internet wifi

There is a version of Milkytracker for Windows Mobile. Check it out :)

where would one pay to have there Hand help pocket PC's seervised like to have Access for wifi back then it was not at every corner like today

1995

Probably not worth it running the linux port since it was so slowwwwwwww

LCDs are not black and white.

I wish you showed exactly which pin on the battery contact is which...You got it working, but I still don't know.