Introduction

Over the last few years, we’ve seen an ever increasing line of Pocket PC devices from a variety of vendors. Although HP still dominates the high end Pocket PC market, many other companies have slowly made inroads into the general consumer market by offering quality Pocket PC PDAs at lower price points. ViewSonic’s first Pocket PC PDA – the V35 – was a well received PDA that competed fairly well with the rest of the Pocket PC market. The V35 was in many ways a no-frills PDA and offered the basics that most users would need. ViewSonic has since released a beefier version known as the Pocket PC V37. If you happened to have been an owner of the Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003 Development Platform, then you had the chance to receive a free ViewSonic V37 PDA this year from Microsoft. I enrolled in the offer earlier this year and received my V37 a few weeks ago. So today we’re going to look at the ViewSonic V37 and see whether this PDA is a worthy successor to the V35. Let’s take a look shall we?

Packaging

The ViewSonic Pocket PC V37 comes in a small red cardboard box. Here are some pictures taken of the packaging.

As you can see, ViewSonic doesn’t waste too much interior space in packaging up the V37. I’m always appreciative of companies that make efficient use of packaging.

The V37 comes with all the basic accessories to get you started. This includes an AC adapter, a desktop cradle, the V37 PDA itself, software (and a software development kit for the developer in you), manuals and various other brochures.