Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Breathe Deeply, O2's XDA II is a Jack-of-all-Trades
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 11:47 AM
"If you look at the XDA II's technical specifications, you’d see one hellova wireless PDA. It’s got a super 240 x 320, 65K colour, touch sensitive, TFT LCD screen. You can even playback video clips which flip the image sideways so they look far better than normal. But does the Xda II perform as a truly mobile office in your pocket? Er, no.
Some of the Xda II’s imperfections can be blamed squarely on its OS – which happens to be Pocket PC 2003 Phone Edition/ Windows Mobile. Yet other failings are entirely the fault of O2/HTC’s specifications. Like its battery life, for example. Contrary to rumour, O2 does NOT supply a spare battery with the Xda II. So you’d need to buy a second one in order to obtain anything remotely resembling a day’s full usage out of it. Plus it takes ages to recharge. And if you’re not careful, draining the battery completely results in a full reset of all your data."
Why even bother reviewing a device if your bias against Microsoft is so painfully obvious? :roll: The reviewer also doesn't grasp that this is a PDA, and not a smartphone, because at the end he criticizes the Pocket PC Phone Edition for not being a better "smartphone"....this is one of the worst reviews of the XDA II that I've ever read.
Some of the Xda II’s imperfections can be blamed squarely on its OS – which happens to be Pocket PC 2003 Phone Edition/ Windows Mobile. Yet other failings are entirely the fault of O2/HTC’s specifications. Like its battery life, for example. Contrary to rumour, O2 does NOT supply a spare battery with the Xda II. So you’d need to buy a second one in order to obtain anything remotely resembling a day’s full usage out of it. Plus it takes ages to recharge. And if you’re not careful, draining the battery completely results in a full reset of all your data."
Why even bother reviewing a device if your bias against Microsoft is so painfully obvious? :roll: The reviewer also doesn't grasp that this is a PDA, and not a smartphone, because at the end he criticizes the Pocket PC Phone Edition for not being a better "smartphone"....this is one of the worst reviews of the XDA II that I've ever read.
