Gadgetory

this is Jaime Rivera part 3 of the video review for the HP ipaq 900 series we're going to look into the usability speed a little bit on performance on the device on this edition okay so on to our video test and as our typical test goes we're going to practically show you that our task manager only has windows media player and obviously I'm on exchange so activesync has to remain active and I converted transformers using spb mobile DVD which use the smallest resolution for the 2.4 inch screen which would be 20 frames per second under windows mobile standard resolution and you'll notice we have no lags yet there's the first leg right there there's another one we pretty much get a lag every 15 seconds this is pretty much a really complicated visual movie so you could say we're straining the device here and can I live with this 10 second leg to watch a movie well I would say yes I would say it's acceptable that I test the previous I packs and I've noticed that definitely video performance on these devices is not really the best but I could say this I pack is pretty much doing better than the others the others would lag a lot more so it would probably be your choice into considering actually watching a movie or sticking into business with this device afterwards okay so how fast is it to play with this baby well we're going to start to make this fair open the task manager and show you that everything is going to start pretty much seamless just raw so just to make a point here we're at ninety-two percent of battery power and I want you to see how the battery power ends up after 10 minutes of film because that's pretty much how much it's going to take me to film this so for example if we start with a simple speed test like running an application or go to programs and then let's see we want to open ereader which is a application I use a lot so was this quick or slow its average I wouldn't consider it the quickest or snappiest device ever but it's not slow either for example another test is for example if we want to send an email let's do it simple we have a hardware key here we're going to start using that and then it's going to take a little bit to start and there we go outlook email and then I'm going to start sending an email to myself and here we go to new and then we send it to me which i'm here i'm going to write tests and then you notice a little bit of lag eNOS and that happens a bit not all the time and so here we go for tests then there goes the email and now i have to wait for it to arrive now if we want to start for example windows media player and check out how much it'll take to start a song since we don't have a hardware key we pretty much have to look for it and here we go to windows media player and then well i'm a salsa guy so we're gonna go look for start typing mark anthony and no that was not what I was looking for here comes my email so here we go to mark anthony and all songs by artists and we're going to look for this song so was it fast or slow well as i told you it's not fast it's not so it's simply average and here's my email if i want to read my email right there and there's my test and there we go if we want it for example open a contact one of the things i like about the qrt bar form factors all i have to do is start typing the name right there on the today screen and that's pretty much as simple as it is if i wanted to start a new contact and obviously have to go to the contact soft key and then i go to menu no sorry i have to go to new outlook contact and then we're going to make a test contact test for me and then we're going to write a simple work fax phone number and click on the function key 5555 555555 there we go then we just click on ok and there is me for test right there that's pretty much simply how you build a contact if we wanted to start with an appointment then we would definitely have to go to the calendar soft key right here on the side and let's go to new appointment so this is going to be a test for me and I want this test on the 12 and it's kind of difficult here so I'm going to have to start until it that I want it to be at 1700 hours which is there and the rest is pretty much going to stay the same so you could say it's a bit snappy and opes I have a little bit of a conflict there in my contacts and calendar okay so let's go to our p IE test and again just to make it fair try to move up here task manager empty look for p IE and the fair thing would be to go to program since we don't have a shortcut key well it was here so I was a quick one pae and then we're going to start at going to hold on a second park it now and here it is see some march from HP up a beginning which is really nice really cool i'm using 3g hsdpa from honduras don't expect it to be as quick as in the States but they're trying they're doing their best and here we go it's loading and it's loading under one column resolution and there we go not the snappiest but not the slowest I like that that was pretty good let's start and I want to do the same thing on the midlet manager just to show you how opera mini performs for a second option this would be our practically second application test as i said the midlet manage is probably one of the best i've seen yet so here we go and then I know your Java powered send me opera mini there we go and we're going to start here loading pocket now I already have it loaded on my favorites but let's see how it goes and then go menu okay and here we go remember opera mini goes to a server and then it renders and then brings it over to the phone so it'll take it a bit to load and here we go here comes it's not loading the fastest I'd expect but it does a good job and this is pretty much how opera mini would look on this device let's exit here and well pretty much just the NY point as I started after actually 20 minutes of film this actually took me more than the average you'll notice that we started at eighty-nine percent it's been 15 to 20 minutes of constant usage and we're at eighty percent of battery power is this good or bad honestly I feel the device heating up so HP does really need to work on this but as I said the battery power is probably not the best in the world but that nineteen hundred million power battery does do a good job this is pretty much it for our usability test and performance on the device as I mentioned not the snappiest device in the world but honestly in my opinion a worthy companion for business so stay tuned for a full review soon here at pocketnow.com