“Smart Phones” looking pretty dumb …
So what’s better than the current generation of ‘Smart Phones” such as the the uber cool Motorola Razr V3x being pushed onto consumers by the telcos at present?
Considering the V3x currently retails for around $750 AU outright, for an extra hundred or two, you can get a whole lot more!
How ‘bout a “Swiss army knife” of converged devices which fit’s in your pocket. I’ve been searching for such a device for over 12 months. A PDA phone with built in GPS running Windows Mobile 5.0 software on it’s interactive touch screen. Able to access your PC LAN, internet & email, or even make VOIP calls thu it’s built in Wi-Fi, read or create documents in popular MS apps, take a photo or video with the 2MP camera and play them back. Relax and tune into your fav FM station or choose a song from your MP3 playlist, or perhaps play a game. There are now a few of these devices around.
The first was probably the corporate aimed “Blackberry”, which didn’t really have everything I was after. The O2 range came close, but only a low res camera. Over priced on release and they haven’t come down much.
The HP IPAQ 6820 caught my eye, being the first such device prices sub $1000 AU, but doesn’t have GPS out of the box, and according to reviews, the camera quality is somewhat ordinary. I tried this device out for 40 mins or so at a local department store and was pretty impressed by it’s intuitiveness. Just like using Win XP only smaller!
The latest gadget I’m drooling over and started researching is the ETEN G500 http://www.etencorp.com/products/Communication/G500.php. It does everything the HP does (only a 1.3MP camera) plus built in GPS AND it looks WAY COOL!! About the only thing missing I can think of and could be possible, aside from access to the 3G network which both lack, is the ability to program in all the remote controls lying about the couch. Now THAT would be cool.
Other similar devices worth researching:
The Toshiba e830
Sharp W-Zero3 PDA phone Features slide out keyboard.
Imate Kjam SPV M500 – small form factor with slide out keyboard. Nice!
The Samsung SPH-H1000
Nokia N93 More a verstatile smart phone running Symbian software, wrapped around a high quality 3.2MP still/video camera. Impressive if a good camera is your priority.
Samsung XU50 – with 5MP camera!
Sony K920 – a very big phone, or a compact laptop!
http://www.dualcor.com Almost a laptop, almost a phone. Great combo device with larger screen size, making for a larger product. 2 processors run Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows XP media, giving it more versatility and features, if you don’t mind the larger form factor.
If you know of, or could reccommend any other similar devices – add them in the comments … Cheers!
Considering the V3x currently retails for around $750 AU outright, for an extra hundred or two, you can get a whole lot more!
How ‘bout a “Swiss army knife” of converged devices which fit’s in your pocket. I’ve been searching for such a device for over 12 months. A PDA phone with built in GPS running Windows Mobile 5.0 software on it’s interactive touch screen. Able to access your PC LAN, internet & email, or even make VOIP calls thu it’s built in Wi-Fi, read or create documents in popular MS apps, take a photo or video with the 2MP camera and play them back. Relax and tune into your fav FM station or choose a song from your MP3 playlist, or perhaps play a game. There are now a few of these devices around.
The first was probably the corporate aimed “Blackberry”, which didn’t really have everything I was after. The O2 range came close, but only a low res camera. Over priced on release and they haven’t come down much.
The HP IPAQ 6820 caught my eye, being the first such device prices sub $1000 AU, but doesn’t have GPS out of the box, and according to reviews, the camera quality is somewhat ordinary. I tried this device out for 40 mins or so at a local department store and was pretty impressed by it’s intuitiveness. Just like using Win XP only smaller!
The latest gadget I’m drooling over and started researching is the ETEN G500 http://www.etencorp.com/products/Communication/G500.php. It does everything the HP does (only a 1.3MP camera) plus built in GPS AND it looks WAY COOL!! About the only thing missing I can think of and could be possible, aside from access to the 3G network which both lack, is the ability to program in all the remote controls lying about the couch. Now THAT would be cool.
Other similar devices worth researching:
The Toshiba e830
Sharp W-Zero3 PDA phone Features slide out keyboard.
Imate Kjam SPV M500 – small form factor with slide out keyboard. Nice!
The Samsung SPH-H1000
Nokia N93 More a verstatile smart phone running Symbian software, wrapped around a high quality 3.2MP still/video camera. Impressive if a good camera is your priority.
Samsung XU50 – with 5MP camera!
Sony K920 – a very big phone, or a compact laptop!
http://www.dualcor.com Almost a laptop, almost a phone. Great combo device with larger screen size, making for a larger product. 2 processors run Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows XP media, giving it more versatility and features, if you don’t mind the larger form factor.
If you know of, or could reccommend any other similar devices – add them in the comments … Cheers!
posted by Edge at 2:07 PM
3 Comments:
LG KG800 - Touch screen smart phone
HTC TyTN
Well, it's looking like a choice between these two:
1) HTC UNIVERSAL - IMATE JASJAR
Folding with swivel screen & kbd VGA screen 3.6 inch 91.4 mm 640x480 pixels 65K colours
Processor: Intel Bulverde 520 MHz. Why not 624 MHz?
64 MB RAM and 128 MB of FlashROM
Windows Mobile 5 Phone Edition, Skype included
overall size: 81 x 127.7 x 25 millimetres 285 grams
one expansion slot for SD/MMC cards that supports the SDIO standard, (various IO cards, such as an SD GPS receiver – optional extra!)
1.3mp cam, 3G, Big screen, but big form factor.
Review: http://www.pdagold.com/articles/detail.asp?a=257
OR ...
2. HTC TyTN - IMATE JASJAM
This combination PDA and 3G mobile phone emphasizes worldwide connectivity, via Tri-Band UMTS, Quad-Band EDGE, Bluetooth, and WiFi. The device sports a slide-out, ergonomic QWERTY keyboard and a 2 Mpixel camera. It runs Windows Mobile 5.0 on a 400 MHz Samsung "stacked" CPU with 64 MB fo RAM and 128 MB of flash
Smaller form factor but smaller screen, higher res cam.
REASONS: Phone must have 3G as Telsra are rolling it out next year and discontinuing CDMA.
Both have Kbds for convenient text entry, prefer JasJar as has larger screen - overall size not so much an issue.
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