Pocket PC - what are the advantages?

[NFS4]

Read this quote:

Battery life is head and shoulders above the 3800 series (which was no slouch) and I've been pounding on the unit for 5 hours so far (yes straight!) with 45% power remaining. During that time I benchmarked the device twice, played 6 movies, 2 MP3s, attempted to use my Sierra Wireless 555 AirCard, used a Socket WiFi card with the CF Plus Pack, connected to our Anycom Bluetooth printer module and peer-to-peer Bluetooth to the e740 which had an Anycom Bluetooth CF card, setup the Nevo remote control to control our home entertainment components, and ran just about every app I frequently use (graphics apps, Word, IE).

When manufacturers set the battery rating of their PDA's, it's with the backlight off and the unit just sitting there with little or no input. That is the MAXIMUM battery limit.

What your average person is going to see is ALWAYS going to be lower b/c people don't buy PDAs to leave them sitting doing nothing with the backlight off. As the quote that I listed above says, the iPAQ 3900 had 45% of it's battery left after EXTENSIVE use for 5 hours. The V35 is not far behind that.

 

[Fox2k]

makes sense. well battery was the major issue for me..now that that's out of the way I guess I can safely discard Dell as one of my choices. Still left with the Viewsonic and the Toshiba e310 / e330 to decide between
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Thanks for your help NFS4, you cleared upa few issues for me.