SF Planet® Premium Quality USB Sync Charge Desktop Dock Cradle for HP iPaq 100 / 110 / 111 / 112

I have an HP iPaq to function as my second brain. Yeah, I forget a ton of things and it keeps me on track. I could probably upgrade to a "smart" phone, I digress, this review is about the failure of a dock.

The product was at a great price, arrived fast and unscathed from wherever it was born. I plugged it into a spare USB port and viola, I have a place to let the PDA sleep at night.

This thing did not last six months. Windows does not recognize the device. Not the PDA, the dock. Tried searching for driver updates, all manner of computer trickery, and ultimately gave up. Junk.

I will close this review with a bit of Megadeth. High Speed Dirt.

"Hurling through the air, exhilarating high

See the earth below, soon to make a crater

Blue sky, black death, I'm off to meet my maker"

I hope the dock was singing this song as I "disposed" of it.

The unit is just what you expect. Just keep in mind that if you use (as I do) an oversized batery (which is pretty much a must with the ipaq), then the cradle is not going to fit.

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This Fosmon cradle/charger for the HP IPAQ111 is both reasonably priced and reasonably well made and does what it is supposed to do without any problems. I had also purchased a similar Fosmon cradle/charger combination from SF Planet for the Palm TX a few years ago and was very pleased and completely happy with that unit too. It is a no-frills device without a spare battery charger attached to the rear of the cradle (these spare battery chargers are also available in exactly the same unit design, but of course for a higher selling price from at least two different vendors, one of which is far more expensive than the other, but which is not rated very well at all). This unit comes complete with a plug-in USB to mini-USB cable, an indoor 110V standard plug (with a USB slot) and of course the cradle itself (with a mini-USB slot). The cradle is heavy enough that it is unlikely to easily fall over at all as has been common with some other units. The USB cable plugs into the back side of the cradle directly. The front of the cradle even has a blue LED light that is turned on whenever the cradle is plugged into your PC. The IPAQ sits nicely onto the USB mini-plug at the bottom center of the cradle between the clear plastic support piece that surrounds the USB attachment. It attaches nicely and firmly if a little pressure is applied after carefully seating the IPAQ onto the cradle mini-plug.

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