Mobility Site

The times they are a changin’, as Bob Dylan sings in one of his greatest hits. That is not only true in the music world, but in some of our favorite Web sites and techno toys. Recently, HP announced that it would be shifting emphasis from its iPaq Pocket PCs to “converged devices,” whatever that means! Along with those changes from the manufacturer side, the Web sites for users of those devices have changed as well. One of the more popular ones for us technonerds who used iPaqs is/was ipaqhq.com. But that site, like Fawkes the Phoenix in the Harry Potter books, went down in flames and was reborn as the subject of today’s Warped site.

The name of the reborn site is Mobility Site. It has changed its emphasis from a strictly HP iPaq Pocket PC site to one that follows and reports on the new trends in mobile devices. It has expanded the focus to include not just iPaqs, but other Pocket PC platforms as well. It also now covers cell phones (especially the smart phone variety) and MP3 and digital music gadgets. What makes Mobility Site so interesting is the variety of user forums it has and the participation of the members. The new platforms are just getting going, but given time they will be just as hopping as the current iPaq ones.

I was a little disappointed in HP saying it was moving towards converged devices. I work in a location where cell phones cannot be used, but the need for a Pocket PC or Palm device is there. With the recent announcement for the new UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) platform, the worlds of computing and communication are becoming more alike than different. It looks to be a fun year for geeks everywhere.

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