Brandon Miniman
11-26-2006, 09:07 PM
It’s always fun to take a step back in time – it helps us seen how far we’ve come in technology, while showing us what still hasn’t changed. Mitchell Oke from Gear Diary takes a fresh look at the HP Jornada 928, one of the first handhelds to have cell phone connectivity, released back in early 2002.
It’s interesting that the J928 uses a processor that many newer devices still use today: the TI OMAP 206MHz chip. Though I’m sure there have been improvements on that particular model, there hasn’t been any tremendous movement in the mobile device processor space for quite some time. Along those lines, the J928 comes with 64MB of RAM, which is, again, about the same as many modern WM devices.
Also of note was that the J928 had dual batteries, one internal and one external, so that if you were running low on juice, you could swap the external battery without having the device shut off. Today, with Persistent Storage, running out of power doesn’t mean that all data on your device is wiped clean.
To read the rest of the review, click here (http://geardiary.com/?p=922).
It’s interesting that the J928 uses a processor that many newer devices still use today: the TI OMAP 206MHz chip. Though I’m sure there have been improvements on that particular model, there hasn’t been any tremendous movement in the mobile device processor space for quite some time. Along those lines, the J928 comes with 64MB of RAM, which is, again, about the same as many modern WM devices.
Also of note was that the J928 had dual batteries, one internal and one external, so that if you were running low on juice, you could swap the external battery without having the device shut off. Today, with Persistent Storage, running out of power doesn’t mean that all data on your device is wiped clean.
To read the rest of the review, click here (http://geardiary.com/?p=922).