It's about time we've heard from someone about the HP iPAQ hx4700 Windows Mobile 5.0 upgrade. We've tried and tried again to trust HP with the new upgrade for our hx4700, but Windows Mobile 5.0 would just not work smoothly no matter what we tried.
Werner Ruotsalainen from Pocket PC Magazine has some great tips on how to get your hx4700 working with Windows Mobile 5.0.
"My first impression of the upgrade was awful. After installing a handful of applications and games, it became really-really slow, irresponsible and consumed a lot of battery power (I’ve measured the latter with
acbPowerMeter) compared to other WM5 devices (I have several other WM5 devices so I can directly compare the different operating system implementations). Furthermore, anything requiring smooth animation (an e-book reader with auto-scroll capabilities or any game) was useless because of the constant stuttering problem, which makes scrolling or even video watching an awful experience. The situation wasn’t at all changed by the so far published cache tweaks (see
Chapter 3 on them) – the device remained as useless for anything that requires smooth scrolling (for example, games – give a try to, say, the VGA version of the great multiplayer-capable puzzle game
Quartz 2 to see how bad and stuttering the animation is!)."
Read the full tips and tricks
here! Let us know how it goes if you are willing to give it a shot!