Back in early September, HP unveiled five new iPAQs. To the surprise of many, two of these devices, the iPAQ 210 Enterprise Handheld and iPAQ 110 Classic Handheld, fell into the traditional PDA category —no cellular-wireless capability in sight. This excited some folks who are still making do with old iPAQs because they're not interested or ready to make the jump to a smartphone.

HP started taking orders for these the 210 and 110, both of which were supposed to ship sometime this fall. That apparently won't be the case, however.

There are reports that HP has cancelled all 110 and 210 orders. In one instance, an HP rep is supposed to have said these devices were delayed, possibly until "the first quarter of next year or later."

HP's own Web site has even gotten in on the act. Its iPAQ 210 commerce page now says that handheld is "Coming in 2008!"

So, while would seem these new iPAQs won't appear until sometime next year, well after they were supposed to ship, hopefully for those interested buying these devices it is a simple delay and not a prelude to eventual cancellation.


            iPAQ 210                               iPAQ 110

So what's in these handhelds?

Both run on the Professional edition of Windows Mobile 6.

The iPAQ 210, which his supposed to go for $450, has slots for both Secure Digital and CompactFlash cards and a 4-inch, 480 x 640 pixel (VGA) resolution touch screen.

It runs on a high-capacity 2200 mAH Lithium Ion battery, powerful 624 MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, and 256MB of ROM. The iPAQ 210 includes both Wi-Fi with VoIP support and Bluetooth wireless.

The iPAQ 110 is a thinner&151;only .54 inches thick to the iPAQ 210's 0.63 inches&151;and cheaper handheld, at $300. Even so, it sports the same amount of RAM and ROM and clock-speed processor as the iPAQ 210. There's still Wi-Fi and Bluetooth as well.

However, the screen size drops down to a smaller 3.5-inch and lower-resolution QVGA type and the battery to a 1200 mAH.