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April 03, 2005
Two New PocketPC-based QWERTY Mobiles
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There’s a couple of new QWERTY-keyboard equipped PocketPC-based mobiles out in the market (or will be soon).
The Orange SPV M2000 has pretty much everything… WiFi, Bluetooth and a side-out QWERTY keyboard. Unfortunately, it’s not as small as the HTC Magician. Since this is an Orange phone, it’s only available in Europe (or maybe you’ll be able to gray market it someday from sites like this).
HP’s iPaq Mobile Messenger h6500 is due out in April. It’s got an integrated QWERTY keyboard similar to the Treo. It trades built-in WiFi for GPS which seems like an odd trade off to me. However, you will be able to add a WiFi card through the SD/IO slot (it as another slot for miniSD), and you’ll have the benefit of being able to break the antenna end of the card off. Add-in WiFi-card solutions suck… like so 1999. Additionally, the screen is fairly low resolution at 240×240. It’s mostly smaller than the M2000, but not close to the Magician.
| Product | Length | Width | Thickness |
| M2000 | 4.92” | 3.00” | 0.74” |
| h6500 | 4.65” | 2.80” | 0.83” |
| Magician | 4.25” | 2.28” | 0.71” |
| Audiovox SMT5600* | 4.25” | 1.81” | 0.63” |
| Treo** | 4.40” | 2.30” | 0.90” |
| *MS SmartPhone | |||
| **Dimensions not including external antenna |
I’m still waiting for a PocketPC mobile the size of the Magician that has a built-in QWERTY keyboard, WiFi and Bluetooth. GPS is highly optional for me.
Update: 2005_04_05
To partially solve the problem of SD WiFi cards sticking out of the slot, here’s a stubby one from Spectec.
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