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hey guys it's Brandon Minnemann from pocketnow.com and we're gonna do something a little bit different this is called the pocket knife throwback we're gonna take a look at the old eye pack 3650 which may look familiar to those of you that have been using windows seee based devices like the pocket pcs of many many years ago this is actually a nine year old device that came out obviously in about 2000 and it really set the world on fire in terms of bringing handheld computing power to a small device like this this was a revolutionary device today obviously it is pretty much worthless doesn't have a phone as a slow processor if you let the battery die on this device all of your data is erased they change that model later in the years in Windows CE II but this model has that old version of the Pocket PC operating system Pocket PC 2000 is what they call it so in this video series we're going to take a look at how Windows Mobile has changed how it really hasn't changed and take a look at one of the devices that really started it all in terms of the handheld space that is now huge and is really characterized by smartphones so let's take a look at the size of the iPAQ 3650 the HTC Touch HD if you've ever held it is a large device it feels large in hand it's very wide it's pretty thin but it feels big in the pocket because the screen is so large next to the iPad 3650 de Touch HD actually looks pretty small if we stack them up we see how much wider the eye pack is and obviously it's a whole lot thicker this is not a pocket friendly the device but in 2000 when it came out it was amazing that you could fit a computer the size of sort of your hand but much larger inside your pocket and even next to a device like the samsung omnia to the iPAQ 3650 looks much bigger so in terms of specifications this is running a 200 megahertz strong ARM processor it's obviously got a QVGA resolution screen that's 320 down and 240 across as mentioned it runs the Pocket PC 2000 operating system it's got a stylus up here it has 32 megabytes of RAM and 16 megabytes of ROM let's take a look around the device down here we have a d-pad which actually doubles as a speaker and then we have a cue button I don't know if that does I kind of forget a back button and it looks like a calendar and a contacts button over here is a button to record voice notes that's where you've charged the device and here's the syncing cable and you can have these expansion sleeves for the iPad to do a variety of things you can actually attach a PCMCIA card that you use on a laptop to your iPad using a special connector that probably people that use the eye pack had on the other side there's nothing and on the top we have a little button that shoots out the stylus which is plastic non collapsible we also have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack a lot of devices today still don't have that so that was a quick look at the iPad 3650 we're gonna do more video coverage actually turn it on go through the applications and see what the Pocket PC operating system which is the precursor to Windows Mobile looked like back in 2000 when this legendary device came out we'll be back soon with more that's it for now