How to Do Everything with Your iPAQ Pocket PC, Third Edition (How to Do Everything)
Maximize all the powerful capabilities of your iPAQ Pocket PC with help from this easy-to-use guide. You'll learn to use the email, Internet, phone, and camera features, and enjoy all the entertainment options like movies and music. You'll also find out how to be more productive on-the-go using the mobile office software--work on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, all in the palm of your hand. With coverage of all models, How to Do Everything with Your iPAQ Pocket PC, Third Edition is your one-stop guide for getting the most out of this versatile handheld device.
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How to Do Everything with Your iPAQ Pocket PC, Third Edition (How to Do Everything) Reviews
You would expect at the very least a delineation between the two. You would expect from a book published in 2006 that it would be all about Windows Mobile 5, it is not. Besides it mixes up the old and the new in the same paragraph. It is utterly confusing. The book is a blend of mediocre information. I was expecting a lot more
Also, there is a lot of information on how to use your iPAQ phone, which of course I do not have the phone version. Basically a useless book. I bought this book before I got my iPAQ in the hopes that it would give me a head start on using it, but there isn't enough detail on any instructions to actually be able to use the manual. For example, it says includes Windows Mobile 5 model info, but when I wanted to find out how to adjust the Program vs Storage memory slider, it only refers to previous Windows versions.
As a new user of an older model IPAQ with NO documentation, this book got me up and running very quickly. Excellent.
It was great.
I later purchased IPAQ for Dummies. The Dummies book also gave lots of information on programs that are very helpful to add to your IPAQ.
This book does a good job of telling you what your IPAQ can do but a very poor job of telling you how to do it. I wanted more information about how to set up my IPAQ to connect with the internet. This book told me what the IPAQ could do and specifically how to do it.
The book told me it could be done and how wonderful it was, but lacked specific information about which screen to go to and how to actually make it work. I was disappointed with IPAQ Pocket PC but very happy to get my hands on IPAQ for Dummies.
Nevermind the question of why someone who needs a hard drive for his PDA would be using this "IPAQ for the severely tech challenged" book. However, you will find "Marble Madness" and "bags, carrying." The text discusses various brands of storage cards, but fails to inform you on how to transfer data onto those cards. If it does, it certainly isn't listed in the index. Most of the peripherals are now obsolete. I found this book to be a total waste of time and money. There is little info on the newer IPAQ's and none on the 2003 OS. It'll save you time, frustration and money. Not in the index and nowhere to be found in the text.
Need to find out how to reset your IPAQ. And by the way, those troubleshooting tips are either available on the web at the IPAQ webpage (guess what. Forget it. Compare this to the three pages which the writer begrudgingly alots to troubleshooting and you get a sense of where the priorities are with this book. This is hardly surprising given the 2002 copyright.
Two solid pages are dedicated to specs for an IBM hard drive - info which is available, for free, on the web. for free) or for issues which have been resolved.Do a Google search. Some 30% of the pages are dedicated to promotions of peripherals and games (pages 247 to 352 out of 352 pages, not including appendices). This book may be useful if you are a complete newbie, don't have access to an IT guy/gal and haven't a clue how to do a web search for info/tips.Otherwise, don't bother. More importantly, all this info can be found at any PDA site, for free.This is a VERY basic text, yet it doesn't cover important items such as data backup and recovery.
I bought this book based on highly favorable reviews here.
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