Monday, August 23, 2004
World Of PPC Reviews HTC's Blue Angel
Posted by Janak Parekh in "ARTICLE" @ 08:00 AM
Andreas Erle reviews the HTC Blue Angel (otherwise known as the XDA/MDA III) on the German site World of PPC (English translation available here.) While we've seen most of the details before, one bizarre tidbit is the arrangement of the SD slot on the top of the device.
Yes -- it's backwards. This isn't a major problem for memory, but for things like an SD GPS card it'll cause the antenna to point in the wrong direction. My other nit is the screen is apparently subject to the same yellowing as the iPAQ 193x/4x and 4xxx devices. Fortunately, both are minor, but one sometimes wonders how the OEMs actually test the designs.
Update: PPCT member Adamz has figured it out -- the "top half" of the unit, just above the SD card, slides up to allow access to the thumbboard. If there was something protruding, it'd get clipped. I guess it's a reasonable compromise if you consider that fact. ;)
Yes -- it's backwards. This isn't a major problem for memory, but for things like an SD GPS card it'll cause the antenna to point in the wrong direction. My other nit is the screen is apparently subject to the same yellowing as the iPAQ 193x/4x and 4xxx devices. Fortunately, both are minor, but one sometimes wonders how the OEMs actually test the designs.
Update: PPCT member Adamz has figured it out -- the "top half" of the unit, just above the SD card, slides up to allow access to the thumbboard. If there was something protruding, it'd get clipped. I guess it's a reasonable compromise if you consider that fact. ;)
