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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Xda IIi

Platform

• Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 PocketPC Phone Edition Second Edition
• PDA integrated GSM / GPRS, Bluetooth and 1.3 mega-pixel VGA camera.

Processor

• Intel PXA 272 CPU
• Clock speed: 520MHz

Memory

• Flash ROM: 128MB
• RAM: 128MB

Display

• 3.5" Transflective TFT LCD display
• 64K colour with 240 x 320 dots resolution
• LED back light
• Sensitive touch screen

Audio

• Microphone
• Loudspeaker and receiver
• Support speakerphone operation
• Support WMA/AMR/AAC/MP3 stereo

Interface

• Bluetooth 1.2 compliant class 2
• IEEE 802.11b compliant
• Infrared IrDA SIR (115 kbps)
• Cradle connector
• SIM card slot
• MMC / SDIO card slot
• External antenna connector
• 34 pin Back Pack connector
• Earphone / microphone audio jack (2.5mm ø)

Applications

• Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 standard applications: Pocket Outlook, Pocket Excel, Pocket Word, Pocket Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger, ActiveSync, Windows Media Player, Calculator, Terminal Services Clients (English model only), Games (Jawbreaker, Solitraire)
• Multimedia Album
• Picture Editor
• Camera (phone and video capture)
• ClearVue PDF and PPT
• Integrated MMS
• Java MIDlet Manager (J2ME)
• Photo Contacts
• SIM Manager
• SIM Toolkit
• Wireless Manager
• Wireless Modem
• xBackup
• GPRS Monitor
• Zip Manager
• O2 Connect^^
• VoiceDial^^^
• Truefax^^^

Pros: Has GPRS, WiFI and Bluetooth; full QWERTY slide-out thumb-keyboard; looks awfully nice.
Cons: Expensive.