Small correction Janus. The LCD here is not transflective, but reflective. Reflective LCDs have the backlight (in case if they have) in front of the LCD layer. Like here in 740 you can see the cathode lamp below the screen. Transflective LCDs in PPC appeared 1-2 years later. Whats interesting, the first PPCs had transmissive LCDs, and its the only the type we use today stiil.
It was reviewed as one of the better/best reflective panels so maybe just confusion? I know right before the transflective displays came out, this was apparently the cream of the crop.
In fairness, I can definitely see why he said transflective. Though I haven't looked at the manual.... it really truly did look like a transflective panel.
@ Its reflective, because the only way to light this type of LCDs is to use the front light. The pixels dont transmit the ligh due to the mirror behind the matrix - reflector. Transflective LCDs use backlight, because their pixels is half reflective half transmissive (easily speaking). The reflective part lights from outside, the transmissive part from backlight
So wonderful to see that thing power up. Brings back memories. I had one of these in high school. So cool. Even though it was definitely a bit nerdy. I even had a small foldable keyboard that came from Toshiba that you connected this to to take notes in class. Lol
I actually had one of these in 10th grade. That'd have been 2010, it still worked like a charm even if it was way out of date by then. Truly loved it. It ended up dying when it fell behind my dresser and was crushed by the very dresser when I moved out.
I just pulled put my toshiba e830w to see if i can have some fun with it. 2004-2005?? I think it was from, a gift when i was in high school. Amazing to see how far and how fast tech has advanced.
Whoa that demo is awesome! I got so salty after getting the vga adapter for this realizing it was just an expansion port. The ati logo on it made me think the 'vga out' chip was inside it.
this tech old yet it looks new.. since we never see this kind of experience before.. wish to see more of your content look like this where we can see how old tech works and exploit or upgrade it to latest version of it in that era.. so satisficed..
I still have my e740. After a bunch of failed attempts at running linux I finally got it to work with help from Spyro. It was never very functional, but I still apreaciate all the hard work he did to get this thing to boot linux.
Interesting review, I wonder how do you keep all your resistive devices' external membranes so clean and pristine, mine got horribly scratched after some rounds of Solitaire and it seems quite irreversible, I'm thinking about installing a film to protect the membrane but it dulls the drag and drop more than I would like.
@@JanusCycle hahha, that's what I do... and scratch the heck out of them playing Solitaire... of all the games and emulators there are XD I wonder if there is some way to change the outer membrane without changing the whole screen, if you ever find yourself doing so I hope you publish it since there's not much info on that matter, written or otherwise.
Excellent work! Love the JPG hardware decoding performance. Guess if you had a GPS card you might be able to run some kind of GPS-based game? Or at least a sat-nav app.
This makes me want to dig out my old HTC Touch Diamond. Oh my, I was so disappointed when I got it second hand in around 2010. Not only did it come with a burnt loudspeaker, but also after having used Symbian on Nokia E50 (and others), this phone just felt incredibly outdated and clunky to use as a phone! Needless to say I quickly quit using the slow and resource intensive HTC touch interface (Sense?) and just used the vanilla Windows Phone 6.1 interface (which the touch inferface very often brought you to anyway). I envy people being blown away by this Toshiba e740 - Windows Mobile (or CE or whatever) must've felt really awesome and cool in around 2002. But in 2008/2009 from which years the Touch Diamond was, it felt incredibly outdated, lifeless kind of (interface looking more like Windows 95 at a time when Vista had been out!). What a bummer. The Touch Diamond seemed so awesome on paper - VGA screen! (at the time all MDA/PDAs still had QVGA), it had GPS as WELL as WIFI (many, many devices on my radar had either one or the other). 4GB of internal storage. Sadly no SD card slot. Neither any audio jack - you had to use the miniUSB output (oh, how ahead of its time...but it had BT 2.0 with A2DP ohoho). Battery life was horrendous (another reason why I stuck to my E50 as a daily driver, which itself had a shitty battery life, but not as bad :D). My came with 2 batteries and when I used it for GPS when travelling, you really needed to have two batteries :D. GPS worked great on overcast days, sometimes I wouldn't get a GPS fix at all on sunny days... mind boggled. Oh it had an accelerometr which was a hot new thing at that period. 528 MHz CPU which served as a great hand heater any time of the year. I did not even like the design that much and the physical buttons were bad (d-pad completely useless). I got it for the screen, GPS and Wifi, and it was quite affordable.
You have the original HTC Touch Diamond? with diamond faceted back? Or U.S released carrier rebrand? I have an HTC Touch Diamond as well. Tried a couple of times to make a video. But my experience was very similar to yours. I will finish the video one day, and hopefully it will contain a positive aspect. I think there is a way to do that.
@@JanusCycle Yes, the original one. No carrier branding or anything. I actually dug it out of my mess! But after half an hour of messing about, it froze, I rebooted and now I cannot open the start menu and other weird stuff. Might have to do a hard reset :(
Thanks for this. I was curious as i have a couple of these with batteries that i was thinking of getting out and seeing if i could put linux on them. Interesting teardown and demo. Thanks.
way back in the year 2007 I've used such a device in the shower (sealed in a plastic bag) for playing mp3s from my local NAS, it work for a few years too.
I usev to have that including the expenyio hardware to connet external monitor. As I remember I also had problem with screen turning off on external monitor.
Had the Audiovox Maestro, Im sure its just a rebranded Toshiba PDA. Brings back all the memories, I had to make a portable charger -from rechargeable AA batteries, so I could play MP3 from it in my daily 1.5hr bus commute.
No north/southbridge? Didn't they all have a north/southbridge back then? Since this has flash memory I guess a Northridge would have been enough but I'd be surprised if that cpu had the functions integrated back then.
Janus Cycle sure man I will be very glad! I have same tosiba pocket pc like but it is wifi version means it can be connected to wifi but I don't know how , would love to see a video
Running Tomb Raider on a Pocket PC? I will have to look for specs on the HP iPAQ HW6915 I once had and the tentative more powerful iPAQ 214 or the Glisten (according to Wikipedia)
Small correction Janus. The LCD here is not transflective, but reflective. Reflective LCDs have the backlight (in case if they have) in front of the LCD layer. Like here in 740 you can see the cathode lamp below the screen. Transflective LCDs in PPC appeared 1-2 years later. Whats interesting, the first PPCs had transmissive LCDs, and its the only the type we use today stiil.
It was reviewed as one of the better/best reflective panels so maybe just confusion? I know right before the transflective displays came out, this was apparently the cream of the crop.
In fairness, I can definitely see why he said transflective. Though I haven't looked at the manual.... it really truly did look like a transflective panel.
@ Its reflective, because the only way to light this type of LCDs is to use the front light. The pixels dont transmit the ligh due to the mirror behind the matrix - reflector. Transflective LCDs use backlight, because their pixels is half reflective half transmissive (easily speaking). The reflective part lights from outside, the transmissive part from backlight
Fantastic teardown, and a soothing voice to go along with it. Hope your channel gets more attention man, you deserve it.
So wonderful to see that thing power up. Brings back memories. I had one of these in high school. So cool. Even though it was definitely a bit nerdy. I even had a small foldable keyboard that came from Toshiba that you connected this to to take notes in class. Lol
Oh I know. I had an HP 1915 and the HX2790 (I think that was it), and oddly the Cassiopeia EM-500.
I really liked your channel and the type of videos you post, I bet it will grow a lot!
I actually had one of these in 10th grade. That'd have been 2010, it still worked like a charm even if it was way out of date by then. Truly loved it.
It ended up dying when it fell behind my dresser and was crushed by the very dresser when I moved out.
I just pulled put my toshiba e830w to see if i can have some fun with it. 2004-2005?? I think it was from, a gift when i was in high school. Amazing to see how far and how fast tech has advanced.
I rocked one of these back in the day. Kicked the arse of the iPaq competition of the time.
Whoa that demo is awesome! I got so salty after getting the vga adapter for this realizing it was just an expansion port. The ati logo on it made me think the 'vga out' chip was inside it.
this tech old yet it looks new.. since we never see this kind of experience before.. wish to see more of your content look like this where we can see how old tech works and exploit or upgrade it to latest version of it in that era.. so satisficed..
I still have my e740. After a bunch of failed attempts at running linux I finally got it to work with help from Spyro. It was never very functional, but I still apreaciate all the hard work he did to get this thing to boot linux.
Interesting review, I wonder how do you keep all your resistive devices' external membranes so clean and pristine, mine got horribly scratched after some rounds of Solitaire and it seems quite irreversible, I'm thinking about installing a film to protect the membrane but it dulls the drag and drop more than I would like.
Many of these devices I received second hand. With a screen protector already on them, that I then remove for playing around with.
@@JanusCycle hahha, that's what I do... and scratch the heck out of them playing Solitaire... of all the games and emulators there are XD
I wonder if there is some way to change the outer membrane without changing the whole screen, if you ever find yourself doing so I hope you publish it since there's not much info on that matter, written or otherwise.
Excellent work! Love the JPG hardware decoding performance. Guess if you had a GPS card you might be able to run some kind of GPS-based game? Or at least a sat-nav app.
Oh wow.... i had that one! i loved it! so sleek and small
This makes me want to dig out my old HTC Touch Diamond. Oh my, I was so disappointed when I got it second hand in around 2010. Not only did it come with a burnt loudspeaker, but also after having used Symbian on Nokia E50 (and others), this phone just felt incredibly outdated and clunky to use as a phone! Needless to say I quickly quit using the slow and resource intensive HTC touch interface (Sense?) and just used the vanilla Windows Phone 6.1 interface (which the touch inferface very often brought you to anyway). I envy people being blown away by this Toshiba e740 - Windows Mobile (or CE or whatever) must've felt really awesome and cool in around 2002. But in 2008/2009 from which years the Touch Diamond was, it felt incredibly outdated, lifeless kind of (interface looking more like Windows 95 at a time when Vista had been out!).
What a bummer. The Touch Diamond seemed so awesome on paper - VGA screen! (at the time all MDA/PDAs still had QVGA), it had GPS as WELL as WIFI (many, many devices on my radar had either one or the other). 4GB of internal storage. Sadly no SD card slot. Neither any audio jack - you had to use the miniUSB output (oh, how ahead of its time...but it had BT 2.0 with A2DP ohoho). Battery life was horrendous (another reason why I stuck to my E50 as a daily driver, which itself had a shitty battery life, but not as bad :D). My came with 2 batteries and when I used it for GPS when travelling, you really needed to have two batteries :D. GPS worked great on overcast days, sometimes I wouldn't get a GPS fix at all on sunny days... mind boggled.
Oh it had an accelerometr which was a hot new thing at that period. 528 MHz CPU which served as a great hand heater any time of the year.
I did not even like the design that much and the physical buttons were bad (d-pad completely useless). I got it for the screen, GPS and Wifi, and it was quite affordable.
You have the original HTC Touch Diamond? with diamond faceted back? Or U.S released carrier rebrand?
I have an HTC Touch Diamond as well. Tried a couple of times to make a video. But my experience was very similar to yours. I will finish the video one day, and hopefully it will contain a positive aspect. I think there is a way to do that.
@@JanusCycle Yes, the original one. No carrier branding or anything. I actually dug it out of my mess! But after half an hour of messing about, it froze, I rebooted and now I cannot open the start menu and other weird stuff. Might have to do a hard reset :(
I'd completely forgotten about that phone, I had one back then too.
Nice, you should seek out a VGA resolution PPC like the Dell x50v.
Kick ass!!! Subbed! You should do a history of PDA's with tear downs video. This is porn for me!
Thank you. I really enjoyed reviving and exploring this device. There will be more PDAs in the future.
Thanks for this. I was curious as i have a couple of these with batteries that i was thinking of getting out and seeing if i could put linux on them. Interesting teardown and demo. Thanks.
Active Sync, who doesn't love it 😂 reminds me of my HTC Touch Diamond 😅
way back in the year 2007 I've used such a device in the shower (sealed in a plastic bag) for playing mp3s from my local NAS, it work for a few years too.
I usev to have that including the expenyio hardware to connet external monitor. As I remember I also had problem with screen turning off on external monitor.
I really enjoy you video i had a Toshiba meself once. Where is the time.
Had the Audiovox Maestro, Im sure its just a rebranded Toshiba PDA. Brings back all the memories, I had to make a portable charger -from rechargeable AA batteries, so I could play MP3 from it in my daily 1.5hr bus commute.
No north/southbridge? Didn't they all have a north/southbridge back then?
Since this has flash memory I guess a Northridge would have been enough but I'd be surprised if that cpu had the functions integrated back then.
Hi please make a video on how to connect it to internet wifi
I would like to make a video about WiFi on and Bluetooth on PDAs which would include this.
Janus Cycle sure man I will be very glad! I have same tosiba pocket pc like but it is wifi version means it can be connected to wifi but I don't know how , would love to see a video
The monitor was flickering likely due to refresh rate not synching property
Interesting, I assumed there was just a default VGA refresh rate. But this PDA is from the days of CRT monitors.
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Fuck yes
Running Tomb Raider on a Pocket PC? I will have to look for specs on the HP iPAQ HW6915 I once had and the tentative more powerful iPAQ 214 or the Glisten (according to Wikipedia)
I'm sure it will run well on these.
Great vid!
you're very intelligent
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I don't know much about this. It may require a ROM update, maybe?
where would one pay to have there Hand help pocket PC's seervised like to have Access for wifi back then it was not at every corner like today
Probably not worth it running the linux port since it was so slowwwwwwww
LCDs are not black and white.
I wish you showed exactly which pin on the battery contact is which...You got it working, but I still don't know.
Just pause it at the right spot and follow the colored leads