Philips Velo 1 Reviews
Product Type: other Tablet PCs / eBook Readers
Newest Review: ... and appointments between your PC and Velo 1, which is just a common sense inclusion than some other palm PC's which ... more
... charge extra for this! Also if you have a mobile phone you can access the net. on the move, but now that WAP phones are making an impact, it makes the software on here seem dated and redundant. And you have to buy a seperate phone kit to use this feature anyway (*sigh*); you could use y
our own phone line too. The screen itself is also rather unreadable unless you turn the power-consuming backlight on, even in good lighting conditions due t...more
Customer Philips Velo 1 Reviews (1)
by - written on 08/07/00, updated on 08/07/00 (Useful, 793 readings)
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During the first wave of handheld PC's, Philips introduced their stylish grey, sleek, compact and somewhat practical Velo 1, with it's economic green screen; as opposed to the power hungry colour models. Needless to say though, like all first wave palm PC's, they were all pretty pointless pieces of show-off machinery, which even still in their current carnation need to bettered. The Velo 1 however was one of the best of it's time. The machine ran on a cutdown version of Windows, called 'Windows CE' and came with a number of useful cutdown Office programs, all proceeded with the 'Pocket' title. 'Pocket Word', 'Pocket ... Read the complete review
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