A quick note: the highest resolution you can have is 800*480 (and the iPhone
210 is "only" VGA). In addition, PDA rendering can be pretty slow on WinMo
(particularly if the doc you read has a lot of highly complicated compound
images).

Are you sure you don't want to go for a tablet instead - for example, a
TC1100? It only weighs in 1.4kg and is far-far better suited for PDF
reading. In addition, it's dirt cheap nowadays; so are brand new batteries
for it off eBay.

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http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/ - you will definitely like it.


"Gabriel Knight" <someone@who.hates.junkmail> wrote in message
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> Thanks for both of your comments on the iPaq 211. It looks like quite
> a good unit, I'm thinking about that product. A bit pricey for what I
> need it to do, but since my needs are limited, most things would be
> pricey no matter what.
>
> Thanks, I'm going to keep my eyes open and research a bit more.
>
> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:44:17 -0600, "Roger 2008" <rwpcs@att.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Strongbox" <strongbox@no.mail> wrote in message
>>news:8wdk3e3kpz8p$.1xv5g3pmpms76.dlg@40tude.net. ..
>>> On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:06:48 -0400, Gabriel Knight wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:54:50 -0500, "Ron Sommer"
>>> > <rsommer@nospam.ktis.net> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>A net book without a hard drive and using Linux will have a 9 hour
>>battery
>>> >>live.
>>> >>The price would be about the same as a pda.
>>> >
>>> > I actually have an Asus eee 900 I'm quite happy with it, but I really
>>> > want something even smaller. Something I can just hold in one hand to
>>> > read with, and turn on and off in only a second. I really need
>>> > something like a PDA.
>>>
>>> I love my iPaq 211.
>>
>>I loved my iPaq 211 until HTC came out with phones that have a VGA
>>(640x480)
>>screen. Now I hardly ever use my 211.
>>
>>FYI the HTC phones have a 2.8 inch VGA screen where the iPaq 211 has a 4"
>>VGA screen so it is easier to read the iPaq.
>>
>>And the 211 powers up and powers down pretty fast because it doesn't power
>>off just powers down.
>>
>>Plus the 211 has two memory slots so you can easily put in over 16 Gig of
>>memory.
>>
>>But the iPaq 211 has a few drawbacks too like it uses WM6 instead of WM6.1
>>and it's screen requires more pressure than an average touch screen.
>>
>