These complaints seem rather trivial to me.

It would be helpful if you identify the other Pocket PC (and its OS) you are using to compare against the IPAQ 210. Both my windows mobile 2003se IPAQ and my WM5.0 IPAQ do not have a Connect via Bluetooth option within the ActiveSync menus. I sync my IPAQs via Bluetooth and I have always done this through a shortcut set up within Bluetooth Manager. Also what bluetooth stack are both devices using? I think the Microsoft stack uses the beaming option when transferring files via Bluetooth, while the Broadcom stack uses a separate menu item (send via Bluetooth or something like that).

I was a little surprised to see that IR was removed from the WM6.0 IPAQs. I attribute this more to the pervasiveness of Bluetooth these days and not because HP doesn't care about their customers. When I bought my first pocket pc, I owned a computer that had IR and found IR to be very useful for syncing. When I replaced that computer, finding one with IR was practically impossible, but Bluetooth was fairly standard, so i don't miss IR as much as I thought I would.

Reviewing the specs for the IPAQ 210 it is quite obvious there is no IR port and I think the documentation is pretty clear that the IPAQ 210 does not include IR, so if this were an important feature to you, how did you miss it when you were researching this device?... It only takes a few more key taps, but it really is not so hard to share files between devices via Bluetooth connection...maybe not so convenient as IR, but is it a show stopper?

I'd say the bigger, disappointing issues for the IPAQ 210, and one of the reasons I haven't bought one, have been discussed in other threads and I question the purpose for this one. Do you really see it as some kind of spoiler?