Saturday, February 25, 2006
Cingular 8125 Reviewed By Mobile Tech Review
Posted by Jon Westfall in "HARDWARE" @ 08:00 AM
"Cingular and T-Mobile are fighting for Pocket PC phone lovers' business with their respective versions of the HTC Wizard, both released in Feb. 2006. Cingular got a few weeks' jump on T-Mobile, getting a few into consumers' and business users' hands by the second week of February while the T-Mobile version is officially available Feb. 21. What is a Wizard? It's HTC's codename for this device, and Taiwan-based HTC is the largest ODM of Windows Mobile phones. There's usually very little hardware variation for a given HTC model, only the carrier's software customizations set them apart. For example, the HTC Apache, the Wizard's CDMA cousin for Sprint (PPC-6700) and Verizon (XV6700) in the US are identical other than color. But Cingular's version of the Wizard, differs from T-Mobile's, i-mate's and QTEK's in casing and keyboard (only the Dopod 838 sold in Asia uses the same design). Take a look at our review of the i-mate K-JAM (an import version of the Wizard released last Fall) and you'll notice the difference. Change is often for the better, and the Cingular 8125 looks more polished and has a much more usable keyboard."
While I'm not a big fan of the boxy look of the Wizard 100's vs. the curves of the Wizard 200, I do like that style keyboard more. What is your opinion - is this something that would make you sell your K-Jam and buy an 8125?
While I'm not a big fan of the boxy look of the Wizard 100's vs. the curves of the Wizard 200, I do like that style keyboard more. What is your opinion - is this something that would make you sell your K-Jam and buy an 8125?
