PocketPC one month on…

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About a month ago, after years of faithful service, my Psion Revo Plus died. After looking for a suitable replacement, I ended up with a HP Ipaq 1940. Very cool little pda – ultralight/thin with bluetooth built in, and came with 128 Mb SD thrown in.



Well, I never thought I would be able to live without an actual keyboard, but it definitely can be done. At first I used the on-screen keyboard, which was kinda cool with autocompletion, but still too slow when compared with the real thing. Then I got hooked on transcriber – and I’m loving ever second of it.



I gave up on Pocket Outlook on the first day since it couldn’t give me the week at a glance view I was so used to with the Psion. Entering start and end times was so painful I just gave up. No support for a tree view of tasks. The list goes on. Ended up replacing it with Pocket Informant (which is one amazing PIM). I gave me week-at-a-glace, notes with preview, categorised tasks with priorities, it’s just amazing. And ALL the interfaces are useful. Meeting entry is a dream – those guys have really done their homework. Absolutely essential.



The next essential app, was a decent Battery Monitor. The built in one just tells you %, and becomes a pain when you get to < 25%. Enter Battery Pack Pro from Omega One. Gives you minutes remaining in your task bar, adds some very snazzy diagnostics to your Today page, and let’s you set up an App bar on your today page for launching your fave apps without having to pull down menus. Also gives you an on-screen power-off button to save wear on your device. Great app. I charge me device much less frequently cause I actually know how much life is left in the battery based on my usage pattern.



Now I just need to find a password storage app with crypto that I can use for my banking stuff, and life is great.