Office in Your Pocket

The HP iPAQ Pocket PC h5450 is the first Pocket PC to feature integrated BlueTooth, wireless LAN, and biometric security. You actually swipe the device and there’s a biometric strip -- its actually a thermal fingerprint reader that reads the points on your finger and it recognizes that you are the user and lets you access information in the device. Should someone else try to do that, it won’t match the fingerprint that’s stored and it won’t let them in. You can also combine this with a PIN and/or password.

The iPAQ h5450 also includes a secure digital input/output (SDIO) expansion slot, removable slim battery (1250mAh,) 64 MB of RAM and up to 20 MB of iPAQ File Store (non-volatile flash storage).

It is powered by Microsoft Windows for Pocket PC 2002 and a 400-MHz Intel X-Scale PXA250. $699. www.hp.com