The Great Four

Hi,
I am wondering if anyone has any opinions on which is better to buy, the x51v, or the HP HX2790 or HP HX2795. I would mainly be using it for videos, music and some work. Probably games as well.

Pros/Cons reviews etc. welcome.
Many thanks.

NamelessPlayer

X51v all the way! It has a VGA screen and an Intel 2700G graphics accelerator, which make all the difference for videos and OpenGL-ES games. (Those are the main two reasons why I'm sold on it, especially the latter. Not many WM devices nowadays have capable GPUs, even the VGA ones.) Both would probably fare equally well for music, but the X51v can run this X50mix app that takes advantage of the sound chip's hardware equalizer, which means less CPU usage and thus less battery drain.

The only advantage I can think of with the HP offerings is that I think they're the ones with the fingerprint scanner, but that's it. They haven't made a single device since the hx4700 that can even compete with the X50v and X51v hardware-wise...

Oh, and whatever device you get, make sure you're using TCPMP for your media player. It can leverage the X51v's 2700G for smooth VGA-resolution MPEG-4 video playback even while the CPU's set to 208 MHz, meaning longer battery life and probably better quality as well! Furthermore, it supports just about every video format you can think of.

The Great Four

I thought the x51v had windows media player 10, or is this not very good?
Thanks.

ThundaAx

Either way it appears that you may have to buy the Axim or the Ipaq as a used device. HP does not show any inventory for the HX2795 on their US website.

NamelessPlayer

WMP10 is okay, but TCPMP supports far more media formats and can use the GPU in the X51v. The only things it lacks are a flashy interface, which its payware successor CorePlayer can boast, and Internet video streaming ability.

Even if it WASN'T the X51v, X50v, hx4700, or other such device that you choose to go with, I would still recommend TCPMP just on the basis of its wide format support-it plays just about everything! Also, it's more efficient CPU-wise than most other media players, at least just playing music-this means that less battery is consumed for music playback, which translates into a longer playback period.