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2.5 stars
"Very Powerful, Full-Featured, but buggy PDA"
Pros: Easy to Use and Set Up
Cons: Lots of bugs in WM5 and HP Protect Tools
Summary: I got my hx2790 right in the middle of December, 2005. Out of the box, it was very easy to set up. Configuring it to access my home network was very easy. Installing the PC sync software and setting the parameters to keep my Outlook email, calendars, and contacts was also a very quick process.
Right away I noticed that there was a problem with the HP Protect Tools. I receive a lot of confidential emails. So I enabled the Fingerprint and encryption security within HP Protect Tools. Everytime I had the PDA off for more than 1 hour, my emails would lose the text in the body of each message. It turns out that encrypting (automatic after 1 hour) then decrypting the emails (when I powered it back up) blanked out the body of each email. And re-synching was a very time consuming process. So I disabled the encryption since HP had no fix for this issue.
In addition, over the next 3-4 weeks, the screen backlight disabled itself, the HP Protect Tools fingerprint validation locked up, and off and on, the PDA could not connect to my PC to synchronize. Again HP had no fix. They said the HP Protect Tools had not been fully ported yet to Windows Mobile 5.0. So I disabled HP Protect Tools completely.
Now the PDA seems much more stable. But I guess I ended up paying for cutting-edge security features that basically are not there.
