HP iPAQ has finally come up with something that catches people attention. I remembered my first PDA is an iPAQ (without HP) with no phone function. It has been quite a while that HP iPAQ has a product that matches today’s needs. Introducing iPAQ Data Messenger, a Windows Mobile 6.1 device with Qwerty keyboard.
Seriously, in my opinion, HP iPAQ has been way to late to come up with such device. I wonder how they are going to compete with the rest (Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, HTC and etc). Nevertheless, here are the specs.
| Operating system installed | Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional |
| Display | 2.81” transmissive TFT, 65K colours, 320 x 240 pixel touch screen display with LED backlight |
| Keyboard | Full QWERTY slide-out alphanumeric keyboard |
| Wireless technologies | Integrated WLAN 802.11b/g, with WPA2 security, Bluetooth® 2.0 with EDR |
| Mobile phone | 3G wireless broadband connectivity for voice and data, Tri-band UMTS (900/1900/2100 MHz), HSDPA Category 8 (up to 7.2Mbps downlink) and HSUPA Category 5 (up to 2Mbps uplink), Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) |
| GPS receiver | Integrated GPS navigation (Assisted GPS) |
| Software included | Value add applications:HP Data Connect, HP SIM Manager, HP Power Save Mode, HP Help and Support, HP Keyboard Backlight, HP Light Sensor, HP Asset Viewer, Opera Browser, Sun JVM, Westtek Jetcet PDF Viewer, Westtek Jetcet Print |
| Integrated camera | Integrated 3.1 Megapixel autofocus camera, 5X digital zoom, 320 x 240 QVGA resolution, 640 x 480 VGA resolution, 1280 x 1024 SXGA resolution, 1600 x 1200 UXGA resolution, 2048 x 1536 QXGA resolution, LED flash |
More at their site but I think they are repeated information. Anyway, the specs are NOT the best. It has just a 2.81 inch screen with a 128 MB SDRAM main memory for running applications, 256 MB flash ROM.
Hopefully the price will be good to draw the crowd. It is NOT available yet. However, you can pre-order at £419 (US$593).
Click Here to Pre-order yours
Here is the video of this HP iPAQ Data Messenger and also another HP iPAQ Voice Messenger.
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