Drop, charge, and lose the cords
A nonreplaceable lithium-ion battery delivers more than 3.5 hours of use on a single charge with the backlight set to medium. That's pretty typical for current Pocket PCs.
Split decision
Like competing products, this Pocket PC is powered by a 206MHz Intel StrongARM processor. But NEC made an unusual choice when it decide to equip the P300 with 32MB of RAM and a 32MB SD card rather than just including 64MB of RAM. For the P300's intended target audience of business users, this solution allows for backup of info onto the card to protect against data loss if the batteries die. However, 32MB is too limited of an amount to store much in the way of digital music or video files, so you'll probably want to replace that card with a larger 64MB or 128MB version.
Even with Pocket PC 2002 devices, it's sometimes necessary to manually stop applications that are running in the background in order to free up memory for other activities. Unlike all of the other Pocket PCs that we've tested, the P300's Home Menu doesn't provide a quick way to kill applications. We were also dismayed to find several errors in the poorly written manual. This is definitely not a good PDA for the technologically timid.
To help offset those flaws, NEC throws in a handful of software titles above and beyond the typical Pocket PC 2002 applications. The most useful is probably Westtek's ClearVue, which lets you work with PowerPoint files.
