HP iPAQ 910 Business Messenger

by HP

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001CC1VGC
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,034 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

The HP iPAQ 910 Business Messenger is a smartphone built on HP?s computing expertise. The 910 is unlocked so you can drop your existing service provider?s activated GSM SIM card in and go. Send and receive documents and data via highspeed 3G HSDPA wireless data network.1 Or connect with 802.11b/g wireless networking at the office and other Wi-Fi hotspots at airports cafes and hotels.Even make Internet calls over wireless LAN. Use the iPAQ 910 as a wireless modem tethered to your laptop or notebook with Bluetooth. Navigate unfamiliar territory or around traffic problems easily with GPS4 and Google MapsTM 6 for quick street map and points of interest access. Capture photos and video with the integrated 3-Megapixel camera. View and edit them with HP Photosmart Mobile then upload to Snapfish. Utilize the features of Microsoft Windows MobileTM 6.1 to download view and edit Microsoft documents to fully extend your office.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better experience than other reviewers, November 26, 2009

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RH - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP iPAQ 910 Business Messenger (Electronics)

Disclosure: I am an HP employee although I have nothing to do with HP Phones or hand-held devices. I bought this phone for my own use. This may have made me more persistent in seeking out things like the latest OS update but I think my review remains fair.

I saw some of the same problems as other reviewers but after updating the OS from HP's website I really like this phone. The latest version improves the phone call volume (although I'd prefer it to still go a little louder). I think they also improved battery life although I never really had a problem with that as long as you don't leave things like wifi on all the time.
I upgraded to this phone from a T-Mobile Dash and if you know the Dash then this is a vast improvement.

It helps if you are more of a techy as you can find all kinds of good apps on the web - the YouTube player works great. If you already know and like Windows Mobile then you will certainly appreciate how well it runs on this device. In my case I am more interested in having a powerful PDA (with things like GPS and WiFi built in) than a whiz-bang phone but I think it does both well. The fact that is is unlocked is also good - I've used it on T-Mobile and AT&T without any issues.

My answer to some of the negative reviews:
- Volume: Get the latest update for an improvement, and/or use a wired or bluetooth headset.
- Battery: Avoid running wifi and turn off bluetooth if not being used, also put phone into standbay mode (press button on top). I have not had standby mode affect the receipt of calls - it wakes up fine when a call comes in.
- Button press delays: I get this only when pressing numbers during a call, e.g. to join a conference bridge line - odd but not a big deal to me
- Keypad vs. Stylus: I've not found anything I am forced to use the stylus for - there are keyboard alternatives, the spin wheel etc. but I do bring out the stylus from time to time as I think it is quicker.
- Touching face setting off buttons: There are WinMob programs out there that will disable the touchscreen while on a call automatically to prevent accidental option selections when the phone is at your ear. For me I just press the button on the top of the phone after I answer a call - it puts the PDA and screen in standby but the phone keeps operating - if you need to use the touch screen during the call then you press the button again to wake it up - without interrupting the call.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Below par attributes, October 16, 2009

By 

Adekunle M. Adebayo (Lagos, Nigeria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HP iPAQ 910 Business Messenger (Electronics)

I bought this phone a couple of months ago and I am very unhappy with the overall product attributes. Below is a list of things I detest about the IPAQ 910:
1. Speaker, earpeice and ringer volume is poor especially when using in slightly noisy enviroments
2. Action buttons do may not work on first press and phone takes too long to process requests
3. Some vital functions cannot be accessed by the keypad except by using the stylus
4. The notepad and word mobile software files get corrupted easily making file recovery sometimes impossible
5. While talking with the phone next to your face, a lot of functions are activated in error
6. Device takes too long to wake after the backlight shuts off (slow processor or device programming)
7. Camera function is the worst I've ever used. It takes a while for the picture to register after you have pressed the shutter. This creates a difference in the picture you actually wanted and that which the IPAQ 910 captures
8. When sending a text message to multiple users, phone does not let you pick all your recepients at once. You will need to keep selecting "add new recipient" every time

The list goes on and on. I wish I never bought this product. Software is bad and general engineering not very impressive.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst phone I've ever used, July 8, 2009

By 

PhilW "TechGuy" (NYC, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HP iPAQ 910 Business Messenger (Electronics)

This phone is probably the worst phone I've ever seen, and certainly the worst phone I've ever used. It is actually user-hostile. On several occasions I've needed to use it to listen to a long conference call, and after about 15 minutes, te phone gets too hot to hold comfortably against the face. On one occasion after an hour of use, the screen started flashing a message about overheating battery!

Battery life is miserable.

There is no way to lock the touchscreen so holding it against your face can accidentally activate the soft-buttons, one of which is "disconnect" (Which by the way is inexplicably tiny and directly above the "Hold" button. On the subject of the screen, WHY did they make all the butons so small that it's virtually impossible to press them without the stylus?

Battery life is miserable

the speaker is a mystery to me. when using the speakerphone function, the volume is so low as to make it unusable,and ringer volume is a joke. But when listening to music using the media player, it's very loud. WHY?

Battery life is miserable.

If you activate the security lock on the phone, 50% of the time you can't answer a call. You can try, and the phone thinks it has, but it doesn't actually connect the caller. People calling me have learned to just leave a quick message and wait for a call back.

Battery life is miserable.

Button responses are delayed so you're never quite sure if you've actually connected or disconnected a call. It can take upwards of a second to register. Maddening.

Battery life really sucks.

As a PDA, though, it's not bad, other than the miserable battery life. It's just that I thought I was buying a PHONE, not an email machine with a buggy afterthought of a voice device thrown in.