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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

All Business, With a Little Bit of Fun...the HP910c Business Manager

Posted by Don Tolson in "Pocket PC Hardware" @ 09:00 AM

Camera

The 910c's camera is a 3 Megapixel, autofocus, with 4X digital zoom. The included codec supports .jpg image files in the following resolutions: QVGA (320x240), VGA (640x480), 1280x960, SXGA (1280x1024), UXGA (1600x1200), and QXGA(2048x1536). Video resolution can be either 176x144 (QCIF) or 320x240 (QVGA).

Figure 13: Here's an example of an indoor shot taken at highest resolution (2048x1536). The lighting is warm fluorescent, so you can see there's a bit of a brown/yellow cast to the image. Even at this resolution, the picture is a bit fuzzy, primarliy because of the lighting, I would guess. This is OK for a phone camera, but there are better ones out there.

Figure 14: Here's a screen shot of the camera application itself. Fortunately, most of the icons provided are pretty self explanatory, so you don't have to guess at the function. Along the top are the flash, focus, resolution and exit buttons. Along the bottom is access to the PhotoSmart Album, changing from still to video mode, and camera settings.

Figure 15: HP's Camera configuration screens. Simple, straightforward and clear.

Figure 16: Again, no confusion here about the current camera settings. This is much simpler for me to deal with than the HTC Camera application found on the Kaiser and Touch Pro.

Figure 17: HP's Photosmart Mobile application not only lets you view the various pictures and videos stored on your unit, but it also provides rotation and simple 'smart enhancement' of the images.

Conclusion

Is the HP iPAQ 910c going to win the sexy, cool awards for innovation? Probably not, but it's a good, solid performer for those in the business world and corporations looking for a Windows Mobile alternative to the Blackberry. The software provided is straight out of the WM6.1 handbook, so while there's no fancy gesture support, they do what they are supposed to do, consistently and well. I have to admit that based on the size, weight and convenience, the 910c almost had me sold on the embedded keyboard format. It's very easy to carry this unit around with you.

Don is an Associate Director with Fujitsu Consulting, and the lead of its Enterprise Mobility practice.

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