T-Mobile will present at IFA Berlin: T-Mobile MDA II – new version of its Pocket PC phone

MSMobiles.com reports: The day after tomorrow IFA Berlin (big trade show of consumer electronics) starts. T-Mobile Germany just announced today, that during this show it will present T-Mobile MDA II – a successor to currently available MDA. T-Mobile MDA II will be available for end users (consumers) at the end of October 2003 in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic and UK. Some features of this cell phone: memory: 128 MB RAM short range wireless: Bluetooth (it …

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T-Mobile Germany to offer XDA II

According to MSmobiles.com, T-Mobile Germany will be offering a version of the XDA II hopefully by the end of the year. If you look at the press photos, you’ll notice that the styling is slightly different than the other leaked XDA II photos. It looks like it will be branded as the T-Mobile MDA (Mobile Digital Assistant). Originally published on Pocketnow on August 17, 2003. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.

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New Multi-mode chipset to offer CDMA and GSM network connectivity.

“The radioOne 6300 chipset is the world’s first true global roaming chipset,” said Don Schrock, president of QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. “It will allow manufacturers to make multimode, multiband devices more cost-effectively and support carriers with handsets designed for the growing number of subscribers who wish to roam across CDMA and GSM networks.” This would greatly increase the coverage for global travellers! I wonder what kind of roaming charges there might be. Originally published on Pocketnow …

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Hitachi G1000 now available from Sprint

“The G1000 handheld –- at 5.8 inches tall, 3.3 inches wide, 0.9 inches thick and 8.4 ounces –- comes with an integrated rotating camera, built-in QWERTY keyboard and complete wireless phone. ” –Tech News World MobileMag.com also has a good article here. The Pocket PC Phone Edition is only available on Sprint Networks and should cost about $649.99. It looks like the Phone Edition devices are getting a little better. For more information or to …

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What’s new in Phone Edition 2003?

MS Mobiles.com has a list of what’s new in Windows Mobile 2003 Phone Edition. You can see Microsoft’s site for some screen shots as well here. I don’t see anything about MMS support in Pocket Inbox or integrated Caller ID based custom ring tones… or Picture ID support that integrates with Outlook 2003 on the desktop! I havn’t bought a Phone Edition device yet, but it doesn’t look like there’s an easy way to create …

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