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HP today officially announced four of its new iPaq devices.  This release announcement includes the following devices:

• HP iPaq 2210 Pocket PC
• HP iPaq 1940 Pocket PC
• HP iPaq 5150 Pocket PC
• HP iPaq 5550 Pocket PC

pictured from left to right: iPaq 5150, iPaq 2210, iPaq 5550, iPaq 1940

Each of these new devices include common features such as the vivid transreflective display the iPaq line has made itself known for, secure digital input / output expansion (SDIO expansion) that provides for additional Storage and accessory add-ons, removable batteries, mobile printing software and iPaq Image Viewer for viewing images and creating slide shows.  Each of these new devices also comes with built-in Bluetooth wireless capability so your iPaq can communicate with Bluetooth enabled laptop PCs, printers and accessories, mobile phone devices for wireless internet and many other Bluetooth enabled devices.  Mobile printing software will come bundled with each device to make wirelessly printing emails, documents and photos easy to do with HP printers or other Bluetooth enabled printers.

Following is a break down for each device and who the target audience is:

HP iPaq h2210

The iPaq 2210 is designed for mobile professionals, it is the smallest Pocket PC on the market that includes dual expansion using Secure Digital and Compact Flash.  Customers will be able to store extra data such as large media files using one type of expansion and use the other for add-on accessories to the iPaq 2210.

The 2210 has wireless Bluetooth capability and features a small and sleek design.  Also included is the Nevo universal remote control software so that users can control their home or office audio and video hardware.

Included is 64 MB of RAM (56 MB of main memory) and a 400 MHz X-Scale PXA255 applications processor.  The Pocket PC 2003 OS is tweaked to take full advantage of this chipset and offer blazing speed.  The street price for the iPaq 2210 is $399.

HP iPaq h1940

The iPaq 1940 offfers consumers integrated expansion and wireless connectivity at the low price of $299.  The 1940 devices builds on the huge success of the iPaq 1910, but addresses all the features that were missing from the 1910 that many users missed.  The 1940 carries on the dazzling color display of the 1910 and the incredibly light weight of 4.37 ounces for easy shirt pocket carrying ability, but also adds SDIO and Bluetooth wireless capability that the 1910 did not have.

The 1940 includes 64 MB of RAM (56 MB of main memory) and a Samsung S3C2410 processor (266 MHz processor).  The device comes with a synch cable but no cradle, the cradle will be an optional accessory.

HP iPaq 5150 and HP iPAQ 5550

HP iPaq 5550	HP iPaq 5150

The newly released HP 5000 series of PDAs are targeted at businesses and their employees.  Building on the iPaq 5450 introduced in 2002, the 5450 and 5150 will have Bluetooth capability, removable slim battery(1250 mAh), and Pocket PC 2003 OS loaded.  The 5150 will have 64 MB of RAM while the 5550 will have 128 MB of RAM and 17 MB of iPaq File Store (non-volatile flash storage).  The 5550 will come with built-in WiFi (802.11b) while the 5150 will require an additional card for this.  The iPaq 5550 includes a thermal biometric fingerprint reader while the iPaq 5150 does not.  Both models will have a 400 MHz Intel X-Scale PXA 255 processor for accelerated multimedia and security.  A desktop cradle comes with each device.

For the HP press release on these items and hi-res pictures please visit the Hewlett Packard website using this link:

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press_kits/2003/ipaq/