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February 15, 2005
Interesting New Microsoft Phone Form Factor
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Most PDA/phone combinations (e.g., the Treo 600 or Siemens SX66) tend to be on the large size — large enough not to fit in your pocket very comfortably. Microsoft smartphones like the Audiovox SMT5600 are much smaller and easily fit into your pocket, but run Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Smartphone software instead of Windows Mobile Pocket PC software (nice, confusing naming scheme Microsoft). This means that there currently is a lot less software support for Microsoft Smartphones (since they are relatively new) when compared to Microsoft Pocket PC phones.
However, as reported in The Register, a new much-smaller PDA-based form factor called the Magician has just been released by HTC. The Magician is iPod sized, and is almost as small as the Audiovox smartphones.
| Product | Length | Width | Height |
| Magician | 4.25” | 2.28” | 0.71” |
| Audiovox SMT5600 | 4.25” | 1.81” | 0.63” |
| Treo* | 4.4” | 2.3” | 0.9” |
*Note that the Treo has an external antenna (specifically designed to jab you when in your pocket) not represented in this sizing chart.
Another plus of the Magician is its external SD/MMC slot supporting SDIO (Secure Digital Input/Output), so you could add a Wi-Fi card to the device. The Audiovox only has an internal (you have to remove the battery cover and battery to get at the slot) MiniSD slot… no input/output capability.
Here’s a couple more links on this phone.
MSMobile’s round-up of latest HTC rumors.
Mobile Review’s look at the Magician.
Update: 2005_02_15
Check out this new GPS-enabled, QWERTY-keyboard equipped iPaq Mobile Messenger h6500 at MSMobiles.
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