Windows Phone Thoughts: Quanta and HP Prepare a Revised "Xda Atom"

"Quanta Computer is expected to begin volume shipments of PDA phones to Hewlett-Packard (HP) in the first half of this year, according to a January 16 report of the Chinese-language Commercial Times. Quanta will ship to HP a revised version of the Xda Atom PDA phone, which it currently manufactures for UK-based O2, the paper said, quoting market sources. The revised Xda Atom PDA phone will still come with the Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system, but will support the quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE standard, instead of the original tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE standard, it added. HP and Quanta are also in negotiations to expand the product lineups to include 3G-enabled PDA phones, the paper noted."



Looks like O2 won't be the only ones selling the Xda Atom. According to Commercial Times, Quanta (the original manufacturer of the device) is planning to ship a revised version of the Atom to HP. The original Atom has an Intel PXA272 416MHz processor, 64MB RAM, 128MB flash ROM, a 2.7" 262K-colour QVGA (240 x 320) TFT-LCD, Bluetooth 1.2, 802.11b Wi-Fi, IrDA, tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support, a 2.0-megapixel camera, a miniSD slot, and Windows Mobile 5.0. HP's revised Atom will go one better by including quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support. It's not yet known if anything else will change, but we'll keep you posted as soon as we find out more.