HP Jornada 420

Description: Model ID F1255A#ABB / HP Jornada 420 - Windows CE 2.11 - SH7709a 100 MHz - RAM: 8 MB - ROM: 8 MB CSTN / HP's new Jornada 420 Palm-size PC is ... more

HP Jornada 420 ... a compact PC companion that provides a convenient way to bring your business information with you everywhere. With its dazzling 256-color screen, you can quickly and easily identify your important information and view appointments in rich vibrant color. Yet it is no larger than your palm and with its integrated CompactFlash card slot, you can easily add a modem so you can surf the Web and send/receive e-mail.

To ensure smooth integration with rest of the office and your desktop PC, the Jornada 420 runs on a familiar Windows CE environment, and with its integrated infrared port, one can share easily share information with other PCs or even send SMS messages and manage a GSM cellular phonebook. The HP Jornada 420 Palm-size PC. Never before has your information been so accessible and so up-to-date!

Newest Review: ... memory, so everything is copied twice when it launches. WinCE is slow and unresponsive, many simple tasks take an ... more

... inordinatly long time as WinCE tries to garbage collect memory. It can many seconds just to switch tasks. The Jornada has a record button which if pressed quickly (by accident) will happily use all available memory until the unit is unusable. It crawls to a halt and you can watch it take MINUTES to repaint the screen. It crashes frequently and hangs for no reason, particularly when low on memory. WinCE will not let you connect a modem unless it is a compact flash modem or a serial modem. I have an infared modem on my ph...more

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HP Jornada 420: Don't buy it (500 words)
by - written on 14/02/01 (Very useful, 101 readings)
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What can I say, I was wowed by the specs. 16Mb RAM, high colour screen, mp3 playback. How disappointing. The display is not great. It is a passive matrix display and suffers badly from banding. The unit is bulky and ugly. Ugly I can live with, but it is physically too big and heavy to comfortably carry around in a pocket. The build quality is poor. I dropped the unit from a relatively small height and the screen stopped working and had to go back for replacement. Windows CE is awful. 16Mb is not nearly as much as it sounds because WinCE is so inefficient. Half is used as storage and half is used as system memory, so everything ... Read the complete review

Great display, poor OS (295 words)
by - written on 23/06/00 (Useful, 76 readings)
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When I first saw the display on the HP Jornada I was sold. OK, so I was given it free at a Microsoft conference, co-sponsored by HP. They also gave me a scale model of Damon Hill's HP sponsored Jordan F1 car. The fact that Damon's car is still on my desk but the Jornada has been replaced by a Palm V speaks volumes! The quality of the display really is outstanding but it has it's drawbacks, the main one being the size needed to accomodate it. It just doesn't fit easily into pocket. As a result, I always used to carry it around in my bag - my computer bag. The one I use to carry around my notebook PC. And what was on my notebook? All the ... Read the complete review

Technical Details for HP Jornada 420

Product Description	HP Jornada 420
Product Type	Handheld
Dimensions (WxDxH)	8.1 cm x 2.2 cm x 13 cm
Weight	250 g
Localisation	English / Europe
Processor	Hitachi SH7709a 100 MHz
ROM	8 MB
RAM	8 MB
Display	240 x 320 CSTN passive matrix
Image	8-bit (256 colours)
Audio Output	Speaker(s)
Audio Input	Microphone
Input Device	Touch-screen, stylus
Power	AC 110/220 V ( 50/60 Hz )
Battery	Lithium Ion
Operating System	Microsoft Windows CE 2.11
Manufacturer Warranty	1 year warranty