Gadgetory

hey there this is Adam Lane with pocketnow.com and ten years ago we published our first smartphone review on pocket now calm now before that we have been covering mostly Pocket PC stuff so this device is the first one that has attempted to combine the power of the Pocket PC with a mobile cell phone so let's take a closer look so first off let me talk a little bit about 2002 this was a time when everybody was carrying you know a PDA on one hand that would do all your contacts syncing your calendar keeping track of that kind of thing your email most of them didn't have internet access though so we had to sync it with a computer and this device is the compact I pack Pocket PC H 3600 this came out in 2000 and it was one of the most powerful powerful pocket pcs of the time color screen hardware buttons little speaker down there and what we have here is the Compaq gsm/gprs expansion pack which slides onto the device it's kind of tight there but you can see it slides in like that and that adds cellphone functionality to this extremely powerful Pocket PC extremely powerful for the time I gotta remember this is a time when Apple was making iPods you know that were just a hard drive with a little greyscale screen and the click wheel that and you know played mp3s and that's it I have something interesting about this design since this PDA Pocket PC was never designed to be a cell phone there's no speaker up here and there's no microphone well there's actually is a microphone but it's for voice recording and it's up there so the expansion pack has another speaker back here and then a microphone down here so what you have to do is you have to use the screen to select your contact and call them and then hold it to your head this so it was like the back of it was the phone alright next let's take a look around the device and maybe you can turn it out now another interesting thing about this is this PDA was actually the first device manufactured by HTC who is a really popular right now so 12 years ago pretty nice device alright let's take a look this is the Compaq PDA part we have a light sensor ambient light sensors this is the power button that is a microphone and we have hardware buttons which were great shortcuts for launching programs that you used often you don't have to touch the screen or anything just press the button and here's the d-pad so that goes each direction and there's actually speaker built into that which is quite innovative at the bottom we have a power charger plug and we have Aperta we have a proprietary connection slot these were very popular ten years ago Apple never got around to switching to standard connection types just mini USB and micro USB here's a reset button so I can get the stylus out let's look at the Styles first there's a button to release the stylus it comes out of there that's a reset button for a in case it freezes up and over here we have a internal battery switch so you can shut that off to keep it from completely dying and losing some of the memory or also if you need to do a really good reset so back at the top we also have an infrared port this was something that we use to transfer information like contact cards documents but also to connect to other cell phones for a dial-up internet access and here's a 3.5 millimeter headset jack and we have a voice recorder button this is good for recording notes later on it was also good for doing voice command and whether I've expansionpak on here's our phone speaker and the phone microphone and the power blend LED indicator and up top is the phone headset jack with a 2.5 millimeter headset jack and this is a little tray for the SIM card see that goes in there of course we got a protruding antenna and another charging port this includes a secondary battery along with more memory and software for the phone so when it plugs in and actually installs the software alright so let's see if we can turn it on oh by the way it also come with a docking station those were popular one time these are little stylus holes and a connection for charging as well as syncing with your PC something you don't see anymore so let's go to plug in I just tap the screen to set up now ever since I dug this out some of these black spots started appearing I think the screen is dying this was your first setup you can see how quick it is now it's recognizing the the expansion pack however the expansion pack battery no longer takes a charge and no longer powers on so unfortunately I won't be able to show the telephone interface that installs when you add the expansion pack because it doesn't work anymore there you go and here is Pocket PC 2002 which was later renamed to Windows Mobile you can see the theme says mobile and we have a today's screen with your widgets and that will provide all sorts of different information so let's go to start here's our Start screen up here is going to be the recent programs and we have bunch of programs there that can be customized let's go to settings unbuttons we can change what each button does log control and under menus we can change which programs appear in this Start menu oh and also the new menu so when we have that we got really easy to tabs to create a new file or document or contact or whatever let's go to today's screen here's where we can choose different themes and here's we can choose different today's screen items so third-party developers can install any kind of today's screen item they want which will show whatever information you want to have there so here you see we have 32 Meg's of storage and this is a 2002 version of Pocket PC fortunately the expansion pack is no longer recognized because it doesn't work anymore and here's our memory that's how much storage we had on this device so you couldn't fit them that many mp3s but we had storage card support if the expansion pack was working you see two batteries here and we have infrared connections internet connection to a Vigo which was a way of cashing websites to the device so that you didn't have to be connected all the time here's your calendar we have icons at the bottom for choosing between the views and we have little menus context there's your keyboard of course you can choose any kind of keyboard here email combined with GPRS expansionpak I had Wireless email anywhere that there was GPRS reception now this browser is based on a I II for and at the time it was really the only browser the only mobile browser that actually supported HTML everything else was a whap Wireless Application protocol notes are great we can do handwriting recognition of course tasks tasks now since this was originally running Pocket PC 2000 and it was upgraded to 2002 we're missing a few of the programs that were available for 2002 but we still have Word Excel infrared receive there's your File Explorer which also supported networking so I could go right to a network path there's your calculator and games of course and down here we have a universal search searches all data or you can choose different types of data to search and there's your active sync which was capable of doing wireless sync over infrared as well as Wi-Fi and exchange think with the schedule of course a lot of these features are not available on most of today's smartphones now here's a new calendar appointment and here's something interesting this is the notes of the calendar appointment and I can actually write in the notes and that would sink right into Outlook and what's more hey this is a voice recording that will sink right into Outlook as an attachment in the notes field there's your audio file and that's going to be saved with the appointment handwriting recognition doesn't work very well let's choose the phone there that's better notes and audio attachments in the calendar appointments something nothing does today what's that you want to do it for a contact as well no problem voice recording hello there you go that's within a contact now unfortunately we're missing the mp3 player the video player all these things could have been installed if I hooked it up to a computer that was old and it was also capable of ebook reading audiobooks pretty much anything except for most of the new apps that never existed back then GPS navigation worked fine with this as well if you have a Bluetooth GPS receiver you notice this doesn't have a camera and does not have Bluetooth or Wi-Fi built-in but those could be very easily added with the expansion packs so that's the gsm/gprs expansion pack for the compact I pack Pocket PC from back in 2002 I was really excited about this device because it it was really the first time we had a really well integrated PDA and foam which later became smartphones so I hope you enjoyed this video and give us a thumbs up did and that's it for now