Thursday, January 2, 2003
Two More WinCE PDA Phones We'll Probably Never See
Posted by Janak Parekh in "HARDWARE" @ 07:49 PM
The two phones below are yet more evidence of the tremendous interest in hybrid PDA/cell phone combinations. They're not the same (the one on the left is a Samsung XScale Pocket PC Phone with a TV Tuner, GPS, and cdma2000 1xEV-DO, while the one on the right is a WinCE/Linux StrongARM unit with a 4" display and cdma2000 1xRTT), but they have one thing in common: they're slated to be available this quarter in Korea, but there's no guarantee they'll appear anywhere else (read: they won't)...
... which leads to my mini-rant: if the CDMA (or even GSM) vendors really wanted to see data services take off, they should be much more rapid in bringing next-generation technology that actually makes it easy to use their services here. As of now, Verizon or Sprint don't even offer a Bluetooth phone with their 1xRTT networks, and then they wonder why people aren't adopting the service. :evil:
In any case, if you wish to drool further, more information on the Samsung and Sewon units is available.
... which leads to my mini-rant: if the CDMA (or even GSM) vendors really wanted to see data services take off, they should be much more rapid in bringing next-generation technology that actually makes it easy to use their services here. As of now, Verizon or Sprint don't even offer a Bluetooth phone with their 1xRTT networks, and then they wonder why people aren't adopting the service. :evil:
In any case, if you wish to drool further, more information on the Samsung and Sewon units is available.
