Sunday, April 24, 2005
HP's HW6500 Will Launch in US on Both Cingular & T-Mobile
Posted by Ekkie Tepsupornchai in "NEWS" @ 11:00 AM
According to a Word and PowerPoint document found on MS MVP Joe Schurman's blog site (titled "Microsoft Mobile Enterprise.ppt" and "Microsoft Mobile Enterprise.doc"), the upcoming HP HW6500 Mobile Messenger will be made available in the US by both T-Mobile and Cingular. What's unclear to me is whether the HW6500 will be a single quad-band phone, split into two editions of tri-band (one for each partner), or a single model tri-band made specifically for the US (in which T-Mo only uses two bands). As long as we're not looking at that last scenario, this is potentially great news for all GSM users here in the US.
Post-Disclaimer: Upon further review, as pointed out by MobilePaddy, the documents only explicitly specify a launch with Cingular. We'll have to wait to see if T-Mobile will include this device as well.
