With Hewlett Packard's acquisition of Compaq, many people are confused about what has happened with each company's Pocket PC line. Compaq revolutionized the PDA industry with its fast iPAQ Pocket PC in mid-2000. HP was also an industry leader, producing the first "Pocket PC," the Jornada, in April of 2000. The new HP/Compaq decided that one device had to go to allow focus on the other.

Where HP & Compaq manufactured similar items, the more popular of the two brands became the HP product line and the less popular product line was dropped. In the case of Pocket PCs, HP elected to drop its Jornada line in favor of the more popular iPAQ series. iPAQs, beginning with the 1900 & 5000 series, were branded HP iPAQ Pocket PCs. As of early 2003, all Jornada models had been phased out.

All HP Pocket PCs are now iPAQs. The iPAQ 3600, 3700 & 3800 series Pocket PCs were phased out by 2003 - the iPAQ 5450 and 1910 were the first iPAQs to display the HP logo.

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