Toshiba Pocket PC e740
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Introduction 1. Palm or pocket? 2. Compaq iPAQ H3970 3. Palm Tungsten | T 4. Toshiba Pocket PC e740 5. PDA Comparison 6. New releases 7. Editor's Choice About RMIT Test Labs |
Toshiba hasn’t taken long at all to make a good name for itself in PDAs. Its latest release, the Pocket PC E740 comes with a 400MHz Intel XScale PXA250 processor, built-in WiFi (802.11b) wireless networking, and both SD/MMC and CompactFlash slots.
Despite its built in Wi-Fi and expansion slots, the E740 still remains quite light and small. It weighs 183 grams and measures only 80 x 125 x 16mm. Its design is quite simple and elegant.
The E740 has nearly double the clock speed of Toshiba’s first generation of Pocket PCs, like the E570. However, it’s not twice as fast. One of the main reasons for this is that the Pocket PC 2002 operating system is not optimised for the XScale processor, though we expect this to change in later versions.
Like the E570, it comes with 64MB of SD-RAM. We should note, however, that even though the specs tell us there’s 64MB of RAM available, the operating system says it only has 58MB of RAM.
The 3.5in TFT is capable of displaying 65,000 colours. The display is sharp and colours are nice and bright. The display also works well in all sorts of lighting conditions. There’s an integrated microphone that lets you record digital voice memos, however when we played them back via the built-in speaker, the sound tended to be quite muffled and not very loud.
The E740 has a removable battery that offers up to 72 hours protection of your data in the event of your primary battery going flat. In normal use, Toshiba claims you should be able to get nine hours of battery life. With the optional high capacity battery, you can expect up to 25 hours of battery life.
In October 2002, Toshiba recalled e740s bearing serial numbers 72014641L through 92041620L, because of a defect in the circuit board that prevented the back-up battery from charging.
| Product: | Toshiba Pocket PC e740 |
| Price: | AU$1549 |
| Vendor: | Toshiba |
| Phone: | 13 30 70 |
| Web: | www.isd.toshiba.com.au |
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½Windows only. |
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Plenty of RAM, SD/MMC and CompactFlash slots. |
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Most expensive, but best features. |
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1-year warranty, parts and labour. |
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