More HTC Magician Reviews Beginning to Surface

A few more reviews of the soon-to-be-available i-mate JAM and T-Mobile MDA Compact (aka HTC Magician) are beginning to surface. ZDNet UK says: i-mate’s JAM overcomes all the negatives in one fell swoop, being remarkably small and light, and also available SIM-free. PocketReview has a two part review of the MDA Compact (Part 1, Part 2). Part 2 includes a great picture comparing the size of the MDA Compact to an iPod Mini. Originally published …

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XDA IIi Coming Soon

As posted by PPCW.NET, the Xda IIi (also known as HTC Alpine): -includes an Intel Bulverde CPU, running 520 MHz -supports W-LAN -supports Bluetooth using the Widcomm Bluetooth stack, already introduced with the Xda IIs/III -includes a 1.3 Megapixel camera -will be released with Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition for Pocket PC Phone Edition containing AKU2 which supports Windows Media 10 Mobile The HTC Alpine will use the same casing as the older HTC Himalaya …

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New Technology Enhancements Enable Universal Playability and Controlled CD Burning

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-November 18, 2004-Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN), the global market leader in content protection and digital rights management (“DRM”) technologies, announced today that its CDS technology, the most widely adopted music CD content protection solution, has shipped on over 400 million music CDs worldwide, protecting over 4 billion music tracks. Over 22 major and independent music labels worldwide and 20 resellers have utilized the CDS technology on over 4,000 titles since 2002. Macrovision also introduced …

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New T9 Style Software Input Panel Bundled with MDA Compact

Now this looks like a nice software addition. Here’s a screen shot of a new software input panel that’s purportedly included with the T-Mobile MDA Compact Pocket PC Phone. The large buttons will make it much easier to type one-handed on the 2.8″ screen of the MDA Compact. I wonder if an english version of this software will ever be available to other Pocket PC users. Originally published on Pocketnow on November 16, 2004. More …

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HTC Magician to be Launched as Dopod 818 in Taiwan

Another carrier has announced that it will offer the HTC Magician Pocket PC phone. Dopod will be branding theirs as the Dopod 818 in Taiwan. Mobile 01 has gotten their hands on these and have posted some great photos. Also check out some photos from the promotional event for the Dopod 818. EDIT: This model is being released in Taiwan, not China as posted originally. Thanks to jlhorng for the correction. Originally published on Pocketnow …

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