Pocket PC Thoughts has posted a new review about the i-mate JasJar Windows Mobile 5 Phone Edition device. The JasJar is the first Pocket PC with a VGA screen, GSM/GPRS phone, UMTS support, and dual cameras for video conferencing. Since the reviewer does not have UMTS, he doesn’t talk about that or the video conferencing capabilities.. but the WiFi is good. Also included in the review is a cronological journal of a typical day in …
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The Palm Treo 700w Uses Windows Mobile 5
Yep, Palm is using the Windows Mobile OS and Apple is using Intel processors. Did you ever think you’d see the day? Anyway, Engadget got to play with the Verizon Palm Treo 700w for a few hours and posted some pictures. It certainly does look pretty nice running Windows Mobile 5. The 700w is even a bit smaller than the old Treo 650! It’s got a 240×240 square screen, bluetooth, 64Mb or memory, 1Mp camera, …
Continue readingHTC’s Roadmap for Future Devices
Here’s some great news from MS Mobiles. This is the roadmap for HTC Windows Mobile devices to be released in the near future. The HTC Athena sounds very appealing to me. O2 Road-map 2006 featured HTC devices 1st Model HTC Universal 2nd Model HTC Prodigy (which recognized as HTC Wizard now) 3rd Model HTC Tornado Noble & Tempo – same specs but different design 4th Model HTC Athena – Windows Mobile 5.0 – 400 Mhz …
Continue readingCar Integration for Portable Media Players
With the release of the latest iPod, Apple is boasting about all the automobile manufacturers that are or will be offering iPod cable integration as an option in their cars. Where’s our Windows Mobile and “PlaysForSure” compatible equvalent? Some one needs to enforce a standard method of integrating portable media players with car stereos. How about USB? Or Bluetooth 2.0? Originally published on Pocketnow on September 8, 2005. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.
Continue readingMio A701 GPS Pocket PC Phone Announced
Mio has announced the second Pocket PC phone with GPS navigation capabilities built in. The Mio A701 will have an Intel PXA270 processor running at 520 MHz, a 2.7-inch touch screen, 192 MB of memory, Bluetooth 1.2, SDIO, and an integrated SirfStar III GPS reciever along with Windows Mobile 5. It also looks like it will be much smaller than the iPAQ hw6500 series (the other GPS Pocket PC Phone available today.) Would you rather …
Continue readingRUMOR: HTC Galaxy Specifications and Design
Finally we have a possible picture for the rumored HTC Galaxy Pocket PC Phone. The specifications are interesting as well: * Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 (codename Magneto) * Processor: Samsung S3C2440M at 300Mhz * Memory: 64MB Flash ROM, 32MB SDRAM (shame, no 128MB!) * 2.8″ Screen LCD TFT 240×320 Pixels * Integrated GPS * Bluetooth and WLAN 802.11b * Infrared IrDA/ USB * Expansion: SDIO/MMC * 109.7mm x 59.4mm x 17.6mm (c.f. 108.2 mm(L) x …
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