The HP iPAQ h6340 is not the first Pocket PC of this make that offers an integrated GSM/GPRS module on top of common PDA features. As far as I can remember, Hewlett-Packard produced two such devices but neither of them could be deemed as a special success. More precisely, the devices came to being at a time when HP competed with Compaq on the PDA market, a couple of months before their merger. HP produced its Jornada 928 that it called Wireless Digital Assistant. Unfortunately, it was marketed in just a few countries, and in this part of the world, we could only read reports about it. On the other hand, Compaq worked on a similar device with its manufacturer HTC. The device reached the production stage but for several different reasons, HTC eventually started selling it as its own product (and offering it to mobile phone operators). I should also mention Compaq GSM/GPRS jacket for devices that were compatible with this type of extensions (iPAQ h3800, h3900, h5000) but this attempt was nothing but a failure. The jackets were unreliable, over-priced and bulky so that the device with the jacket on resembled a brick both by the look and weight.
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