Amoi E70 for China market = i-mate SPL

Palm Treo 680

Per protocol, Palm was scooped well ahead of today’s announcement, but it’s always good to see official details get laid out nonetheless. Following hot on the heels of its elder Windows Mobile sibling, the 750v, the Treo 680 comes into the light today for GSM networks — a good sign for carriers worldwide after a year of CDMA equipment out of the company. Cast as an entry-level model (read: no WiFi support), the 680 brings it strong with a redesigned phone UI and software bundle, quad-band GSM (what, no quint-band HSDPA?), 64MB of RAM, and a VGA cam, all sitting atop Palm OS in the buyer’s choice of Graphite, Copper, Arctic, or Crimson colors. No pricing or launch carriers were announced today, but given the branding we’ve seen

E-TEN X500 Pocket PC phone

In a world of 6.9mm-thick phones, we use the term “thin” somewhat loosely, but what the heck — it is a full fledged Pocket PC phone, after all. E-TEN’s latest, the X500, manages to pack Bluetooth 2.0, microSD expansion, 802.11g, FM radio, GPS, and a 2-megapixel autofocus shooter into a sub-15mm frame sporting Windows Mobile 5 with AKU3. The device also rocks 64MB of RAM, 128MB of ROM, and a respectable 400MHz Samsung core, though the complete lack of 3G is starting to become a sore spot for us. No details on when or where the X500 might drop (or how much it might be, for that matter) on account of it not officially having been announced quite yet, but we’ll keep our ear to the ground on this one.

Dopod 838Pro Review

The Dopod 838Pro is a Pocket PC Phone designed and manufactured by the giants HTC. Codenamed Hermes, it is sold elsewhere in the world as the Orange SPV M3100, Dopod CHT9000, Vodafone v1605, and Cingular 8525.

Samsung SGH-i760

Samsung takes another potshot at the Motorola Q with its upcoming SGH-i760, a Windows Mobile 5 for Pocket PC Smartphone with an Intel 520MHz CPU inside. This one looks like it has it all, with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth 2.0, a 240×320 touchscreen, WiFi, and even has a forward-facing video calling camera. On the other side there’s a 2-megapixel camera, too. Plus, the thing is exceedingly light, weighing in at just 119g (that’s just over 4 ounces for us metrically-challenged).

Our interest is piqued. It won’t take much to slam-dunk that Motorola Q, and this might just be the ticket. Full spec list and ten gorgeous pics (courtesy mobile mania.sk), after the jump.

WM5 for Pocket PC
• Intel 520Mhz CPU
• 2MP Camera
• Forward facing video calling camera
• 3G/HSDPA (Triband)
• 802.11g Wi-Fi
• microSD (shame it’s not miniSD!)
• 2.8″ QVGA touch screen
• Bluetooth 2.0
• Qwerty slide-out keypad
• 1040mAh battery
• 119g (lighter than a Vario!)

HP rw6815 by Quanta

HP is not ashamed of putting its own label on Pocket PC phone designed by Quanta : HP iPAQ rw6815 launches in Europe

After being officially available in Asia for some time already, the HP iPAQ rw6815 comes at last also to Europe (but apparently not to USA).

HP is so shameless! Once being known for big innovations, now it is just sticking its own label on products not only manufactured in Asia but also designed there: HP iPAQ rw6815 has not been designed by HP but is just a re-branded O2 Xda Atom designed and manufactured by Quanta in Taiwan.

HP is announcing a launch of a notebook with built-in 3G support, but HP iPAQ rw6815 is a very outdated model without 3G – another sign how low HP has fallen:

three new HP iPAQ Pocket PCs and announced availability of a 3G broadband wireless notebook, to make it easier than ever before for active professionals to be more productive while on the go.

The introductions include the all new HP iPAQ rx5000 series Travel Companion, the HP iPAQ rw6815 Personal Messenger and the HP iPAQ rx4000 Mobile Media Companion.

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The HP iPAQ rw6815 Personal Messenger is small in size but big on connectivity and features so users can make phone calls, send text and instant messages, surf the Internet, check emails, and much more

The original source of this story (unlike most other websites we provide it!!!) is here and you can find there more information. Unfortunately the launch of HP iPAQ rw6815 is just a minor mention there.

Conclusion: HP is no longer to be trusted when it comes to Windows Mobile phones! The HP iPAQ 6915 is just a minor upgrade (the same basis construction) of HP iPAQ h6510 and HP practically for years have not released any new design of Windows Mobile phone and is totally missing out not only on 3G (UMTS) but also on latest technologies like HSDPA.

Après HTC ou Quanta, Hewlett Packard fait appel à LG Electronics pour développer des PDA sous Windows Mobile

Si l’Américain Hewlett Packard faisait principalement appel jusque là aux constructeurs Taiwanais HTC et Quanta pour produire les PDA et PDAPhone sous Windows Mobile actuellement commercialisés sous le marque HP iPAQ, c’est désormais le Sud Coréen LG Electronics qui va développer un PDA de sa gamme

Pour sa part, si HP avait fait jusque là fait appel au constructeur Compal Electronics pour construire son premier PDAPhone HP iPAQ h6340, à HTC pour ses deux PDAPhone suivants HP iPAQ hw6515/6915 en plus du prochain PDA GPS rx6915 ou encore à Quanta (QCI) pour le dernier PDAPhone hw6815 tournant toujours sur un système d’exploitation Windows Mobile, c’est un quatrième construteur de terminal sous Windows Mobile qui sera utilisé pour assembler le prochain PDA de la marque.

Il apparait en effet d’après le Webzine Digitimes que le Pocket PC iPAQ rx4000 Mobile Media Companion de HP sous Windows Mobile sera construit par LG Electronics, le tout pour une disponibilité du produit dans les prochaines semaines. Reste à savoir si cette multitude de partenaires technologies autour de HP qui développent les nouveaux produits mobiles de la marque sera à terme bénéfique à la société.

Holux GPSlim 240

The Holux GPSlim 240 is a GPS receiver that can interface with a PDA, smartphone or notebook via Bluetooth or USB. It’s very small – about the height of a key – and runs off a rechargeable 8-hour lithium-ion battery (or car charger, etc). And the GPSlim 240 uses SiRF Star III architecture, which is the latest, fastest GPS system on the market.

It’s available now for $99 and probably a good option if you’ve blown your cash on a smartphone or just don’t want another largish piece of tech around.

How To Disable an ActiveSync Connection ?

Is there a way to stop ActiveSync from automatically turning itself on whenever I put my Pocket PC into its cradle?

Open the ActiveSync application, and choose the File drop-down box. Then choose “Connection Settings…”

On the resulting dialog box you’ll see a checkbox labeled “Allow USB connections”. Remove this check-mark.

The next time you connect your Windows Mobile device, an ActiveSync connection won’t be made.

Your handheld or smartphone will still be charging, though — whether through the USB trickle charge or the power cable into its cradle.

To start an ActiveSync session in the future, just go back in and turn the “Allow USB connections” checkbox back on. You can even do this with the device already plugged in without problems.

Before anyone asks, the “Open ActiveSync when my device connects” option doesn’t do the same thing. All this does is prevent an ActiveSync window from appearing on your desktop. The process is still running in the background. The method I described earlier really stops the connection process.

HTC Herald is the HTC Hermes/TyTN’s Successor

The latest HTC phone with a slide-out keyboard is the HTC Herald, the successor to the HTC Hermes. The Herald is thinner, at 18mm versus the Hermes’ 22mm, but vomits a camera and some processor power to do so. Luckily for us, everything else is the same. The phone still has a 2-megapixel camera, QVGA touch-screen, slide-out keyboard, WiFi and 3G data. You just can’t do video-conferencing anymore because of the lack of cameras.

It was remained the only face disowned of the roadmap of HTC, those trapelata from the Net months ago and from which they are then it originates you of recent dispositi like the P3600 and the P3300 to you. Of he, till now, one only knew the name and one characteristic fundamental: the thickness, ridottissimo. Hour Herald is here, on the pages of SoloPalmari, with three photographies in world-wide exclusive right received from an anonymous foreign reader.
Herald will be the only PDA phone with integrated QWERTY keyboard to slips (just like that one of Qtek 9100, or the most recent TyTN) to having dimensions similar, if not quite inferior to those of palmari lacking in keyboard. In order to mean to us: like the Magician, alias Qtek S100/i-mate JAM.

And it is from the brought back photo up that the factor shape assumes a fundamental relief: in the image Herald it comes compared just to a Qtek S100, regarding which the dimensions effectively seem to be quite inferior: 18 millimeters.

The ulterior information in our possession are not many: the PDA phone would have to be equipped of camera from 2 Megapixel, ordinary memory baggage, and processore Texas Instruments. The characteristics, however, could change in the version trade them of the device, regarding those found in the prototype.

The absence of an external camera leaves to think that the telephone module is lacking in UMTS, but null it excludes that protocol 3G or quite 3,5G (HSDPA) effectively is implemented without the function of videochiamata (choice moreover already carried out from HTC in smartphone the MTeoR).
We reassume, therefore, the detailed lists that probably will characterize the device (giova to repeat that the information in our possession absolutely are not confirmed from official sources):

Mobile Windows 5.0
CPU: YOU OMAP (850) from 200 MHz
Telephone module: disowned
RAM 64 MB – ROM 128 MB
Display 2,8 ”, resolution QVGA (320 x 240)
slot miniSD ()
Thickness: 18 milimeter