Due to Rover P1 tiny dimensions and the standard-sized screen the latter seems to occupy the whole front side. Above the screen there are two LED indicators showing reminders and the charging process.

After the two week acquaintance with the device we call it a good budget solution worth its price (the low price in Moscow makes up $230, in Taiwan $210). It's a typical species of budget Pocket PC. The list of direct rivals includes HP iPaq 1930, ...

The Taiwanese maker Compal is hardly known worldwide under its own trademarks. Instead all of us are familiar with products by Toshiba (PDA and notebooks) and Motorola (some low-end phones) that are produced on Compal plants on ODM-contracts.

Palmax z710 has a wide range of rival models in the budget sector, the number of which constantly grows, and the competition gets tougher. They are Rover P1, MiTAC Mio 336, HP iPaq 1930, Toshiba e400, Dell Axim X3 (the junior modification). The ...

In mid 60-s of XX century military organizations realized that navigation systems of that period didn't ensure required accuracy. Naturally they looked to near space.

Palmax GDA is one of the first PDA based on new SiRF Star III chipset and the first GPS-device with internal antenna. Taking into account price/quality ratio (the retail price is $350-400) we have a good solution to be used mainly in cars. If we ...

PalmSource (the operating system developer) suffers losses one after another, and loses its positions. This is not a secret.

It's possible to make a call or send SMS from contact menu. You can assign a melody for a contact (now it's possible to set MP3 melodies).

The capabilities of the phone book are rich, there is an optimized contact search. As for functionality of other built-in applications, it's quite sufficient. If you need more functionality, some exterior applications can help (freeware very often), ...

Palm OS 6 was promised 2 years ago and has never been released, there are only prototypes based on it. Old versions carried unsolved problems with localization and multi-tasks.

Now there is no any problem transmitting information from memory cards of digital cameras. Just connect a USB cable and write the info to a PC (the camera acts as a usual card reader then).

Some words about design. When the smartphone is closed, it resembles a race car.

Time goes by, many things change, but something remains the same for many years. Nokia keeps its leading positions on the mobile phone market, despite of serious problems and low sales in the 1Q 2004.

At the moment the new model by PalmOne is listed for $300 in the US and $370 in Russia. During its life cycle the price would go down not rapidly, to $250-260. However in the middle of the cycle the company would evidently enlarge the standard kit ...

First, that is an integrated Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b) module.