iPAQ Review

But this iPaq’s real distinction is its wirelessness. It’s the first palmtop that can connect to the Internet and other gadgets in four wireless ways.
For distances up to 30 inches, the iPaq can beam information, like your electronic business card, to another palmtop using an infrared transmitter. For distances up to 30 feet, it has built-in Bluetooth circuitry (more on this in a moment). For distances up to 150 feet, it has a Wi-Fi antenna. And for transmissions around the entire planet, the iPaq has one other trick up its sleeve: it’s also a cellphone.
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The iPaq is more successful communicating with, for example, a Bluetooth cellphone earpiece; you can talk on the phone in your pocket without any telltale wire sneaking down from your ear. In fact, that’s one way to exploit all three wireless modes simultaneously: wear your Bluetooth earphone to make a phone call while surfing the Net, uninterrupted, over a Wi-Fi connection. That feat would be impossible for any other self-contained palmtop.
When you have long messages to write, or when you’re just feeling a twinge of BlackBerry envy, a tiny keyboard attachment (included) snaps onto the iPaq like a high-tech boot. As Stuart Little keyboards go, this one is pleasant enough - it even makes little typewriter sounds as you type - but it adds bulk, it’s not backlighted and it’s another piece to lose. A hidden or flip-out keyboard, like the ones on some cellular smart phones, is a much better solution.