Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC h3600 Specifications download pdf (Page 11)

Micke Gunnarsson 2001-07-19

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URL and have Pocket Explorer

try to open it. If you tap the URL you are

automatically entering edit mode on that person. So if you want to use for example

this URL you will have to memorize it or go into edit mode and copy the URL, then

open Pocket Explorer and paste it in the address bar. This is not very user friendly.

Tasks & Notes

Tasks are a kind of “todolist” in which the users enters things that he/she has to do.

These can be bounded to a certain time or just pending tasks to do sometime in the

future. One can set a reminder (alarm) on some tasks and they are all integrated into

the calendar and the today view. Notes provide for short the same functionality of

having a piece of paper and a pencil available at all time.

E-mail messages

Integrated into as well Pocket Outlook as MS outlook is an application that handles

receiving, sending and storage of emails. Emails received on the stationary computer

can be downloaded to the iPAQ and emails written on the iPAQ can be sent during

next synchronization. If one has a network connection on the iPAQ one can also

configure an email account and send/receive mail directly not having to go thru the

stationary computer.

3.3.2 Pocket Word & Pocket Excel

These are versions of the Microsoft Office programs Word and Excel. The user can

use these programs to create new documents or synchronise existing documents so

that they can be edited on the iPAQ. When the user synchronises with his stationary

computers changes made on the document on the iPAQ are also made on the version

of the document stored at the stationary computer. The iPAQ versions of Word and

Excel are however very limited comparing to the “real thing”. During synchronisation

the documents are converted back and forth between the different file formats that

each device supports. During this synchronization unwanted changes are made to the

document, which in some case can cost extra work to resolve. For example if in Word

a table is inserted into the document on the stationary computer it is removed in the

conversion to the iPAQ format. If the user then does some changes to the file and

then synchronizes it again, the table will be removed on the stationary computer while

adding the new changes. That is also the case when it comes to choosing which font

to use. The iPAQ uses a font called Tahoma by default and has very little support for

other fonts. If the document on the stationary computer uses Times New Roman,

converting it to and back from the iPAQ will make both versions use Tahoma.

Similar effects can be found using Excel.

The Pocket PC versions of these two programs are more suited for viewing and

editing simple unformatted texts. If one is in the “working phase” of writing a

document and one is not yet concerned with how to format the text the

synchronization of files works. But if the document is more advanced in terms of

tables and pictures it might be better to transfer the file to the iPAQ manually in the

File Explorer and use Pocket Word as a reader with commenting possibilities and

then edit the file at home oneself later.

Pocket Explorer is the iPAQ version of the Windows web browser application

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