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Jornada 430se’s batteries are low, and real-

izing you left one of the cables at home.

H/PCS

The handheld PCs (H/PCs) I tested—

the Hitachi ePlate HPW-600ET and HP

Jornada 690 Handheld PC—are the larg-

est, most powerful, and most expensive of

the products I tested. (See Figure 1 on p.

12.) These two products also have a lot

in common. For example, both run the

Microsoft Windows CE Handheld Pro-

fessional Edition 3.0.1, which includes the

following applications (all version 3.0.1):

• Pocket Internet Explorer

• Pocket Word

• Pocket Excel

• Pocket PowerPoint

In addition, these two H/PCs are

equipped with built-in fax modems and

an array of interfaces, including a serial

port, infrared port, PC card slot, Com-

pactFlash card slot, earphones jack,

VGA output, and a USB port. The idea,

of course, is that you can do anything

with an H/PC that you can do with a

laptop—in a much smaller package.

These two products also share a couple

of drawbacks. For example, downloading

files is not a speedy process. I downloaded

a 43-slide PowerPoint presentation to one

of the H/PCs, and the process took 20

minutes. Also, not all of the application

features you may expect are available. For

example, I downloaded a Word file that

includes a large table. As I should have

guessed, Pocket Word does not include the

Table feature, so the format was destroyed.

HP JORNADA 690 HANDHELD PC: WHO

WOULD WANT IT?

The HP Jornada 690 Handheld PC

would be a good pick for anyone who

wants the convenient features of a hand-

held coupled with functionality that

rivals a laptop in a package one-third

the size. Also, someone who prefers to

use an actual keyboard rather than an

on-screen keyboard or character-recogni-

tion software would prefer the Jornada

690 to other H/PCs.

Something To Talk About

Of the two H/PCs, I much preferred

the form factor of the HP Jornada 690,

which is also U.S. $200 less expensive

than the Hitachi ePlate HPW-600ET.

The Jornada 690 is a clam-shell form fac-

tor that sits comfortably in your hand or

on your desk. In this form factor, using the

H/PC to carry documents either to edit

them or to display them on a large-screen

monitor for presentations becomes an

attractive alternative to carrying a laptop.

Something To Think About

The Jornada 690 does not ship with

Jot, as other Windows CE products do,

so the keyboard is your only option for

data entry. The keyboard is 75 percent

of the size of a regular keyboard and is

usable, even for two-handed typing.

However, getting used to the size would

take time. I found that when using this

keyboard, my speed dropped dramatical-

ly, and my accuracy was pathetic—worse

than when I used either Jot or Graffiti.

(Jot and Graffiti are handwriting recog-

nition systems.)

HITACHI EPLATE HPW-600ET: WHO

WOULD WANT IT?

For someone who wants the features

of an H/PC but would like a slightly

larger viewing area, the Hitachi ePlate

may be the ticket.

Something To Talk About

The ePlate includes a nice Jot tutorial

that other Windows CE products do not.

This tutorial enables you to train the Jot

running on the ePlate to recognize vari-

ous writing quirks. For example, the Jot

tutorial asks if you ever use a particular

form of the uppercase J, when you draw

the bottom hook first, lift your pen, and

then draw the line from left to right for

the top of the J. If you answer yes, Jot

thereafter recognizes that form of an

uppercase J. If you leave the default

answer no, Jot does not recognize that

form of an uppercase J. This tutorial

feature is available for letters J, K, P, Q,

t, Y, I and the dollar symbol ($).

Something To Think About

The ePlate was the most uncomfort-

ably large of all of the handhelds I test-

ed—too large for me to want to hold in

one hand and not large enough to be as

pleasant to look at as a laptop.

The lack of an external keyboard also

limits ePlate’s usefulness. For example,

having the whole MS Pocket Office suite

is theoretically convenient, but with the

only data entry options being either Jot

or an on-screen keyboard, you may want

to carry along an external keyboard.

On the other hand, if you carry a key-

board, ePlate’s flat design makes data

entry awkward because it lies horizontally

on the surface. As a result, you have to

lean over the keyboard and look straight

down at the screen.

Although the design of the AC adapt-

er is handy (the plugs collapse into the

unit), the cable is too short, as is the

modem cable. I had difficulty finding a

place in my house where I could reach

both the electrical outlet and a tele-

phone jack.

The ePlate also has a poor user manu-

al, which starts off badly with 10 pages

of warnings that range from necessary to

highly questionable. Examples of the lat-

ter include the following:

• “Do not operate this handheld PC

while walking.”

• “Do not put the main battery or

backup battery into a microwave

oven.”

• “Do not swirl this handheld PC

around. Do not hammer or step on it,

either.”

Linda Kennard works for Niche Asso-

ciates, an agency that specializes in writing

and editing technical documents. Niche

Associates is located in Sandy, Utah.

NetWare Connection June 2000

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