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Personalize your iPaq rw6800
Reuben Lee | May 30, 2006
In conjunction with the recent launch of the iPaq rw6800, HP will also be introducing a limited-edition skin collection which the company hopes can offer users an added touch of personalization for their PDA-phones. Each skin will retail for S$30 (US$19.74) and this includes the cost of application of the skin which will be carried out by appointed third-party vendors. Users can choose from four designs in the initial collection, which includes Classic Red and Divine Fucshia for female users, Bubble Green for the younger crowd and Black Knight for professional male consumers.
HP's introduction of user-selectable skins for its handhelds, possibly a first for the company, didn't come as a surprise as its main competitors Dopod and O2 are already offering multiple color versions of their latest PDA-phones. The first collection of four skin designs is created by local designers. According to HP, other collections of skins will be made available seasonally. (Click here for larger images)
Moto Q: It's coming! It's coming!
Juniper Foo | May 17, 2006
Motorola's long-in-the-tooth smart phone Q is finally, from the mouth of CEO Ed Zander, on its way. Next week, to be exact, though its first public appearance will be on US shelves. As for Asia, unfortunately the local Motorola office is unable to comment on local availability as at press time. So we'll just have to drool from a distance in the meantime.
In an interview with CNET.com, the company head honcho explained that the Q's delay was due to its "complex" innards which needed multiple iterations. Will it still live up to its hype of being a BlackBerry killer nearly one year after it was announced last July? We'll have to see once the first review comes out of the CNET Labs. Surprisingly, in the year-long interim, there have been no clear challengers to the Q's claim of being the smallest QWERTY phone at a razor-thin girth of 11.5mm.
Palm's Treo 700p makes a landing in US
Damian Koh | May 16, 2006
Well, it's not here, yet, and Asia-Pacific users may have to stretch their necks out a little bit longer for the GSM version of the Treo 700p to arrive. That is, if it ever does.
Palm has announced the Treo 700p as the second major update (the first was the Treo 700w running on Windows Mobile 5.0) to the Treo lineup for this year. However, Asia-Pacific users can only drool since the current version runs only on CDMA. Like the Treo Hollywood, which is another big question mark, Palm has not indicated whether either models will be making its way to the region.
The Treo 700p comes with several hits and misses. What has improved includes support for streaming media, increased user-accessible memory from 22MB to 60MB, compatibility with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and a 320 x 320-resolution display. There's no built-in Wi-Fi support, though, and according to sources on the Web, the SDIO slot on the Treo 700p won't support the wireless connection as well.
While we're at that, perhaps we can add the Treo 700l to Palm's arsenal for 2006--"l" for the Linux system it may run. But that's just pure speculation on our part.
Asus to launch P525 in Singapore
Reuben Lee | May 05, 2006
At an Asus event held recently, CNET Asia was able to catch a glimpse of the company's P525 PDA-phone. In an aside, local sales manager Joseph Hoo confirmed that the device is slated for rollout in Singapore possibly within the next few months. On first impressions, this quadband phone bore design similarities to the BenQ P50 PDA-phone. However, in place of the P50's QWERTY keypad, the Asus featured a regular number pad much like those found on standard mobile phones.
The P525 had been announced earlier at the CeBIT 2006 fair in Hannover, Germany. Specs-wise, it will have a 2.8-inch 16-bit QVGA display, a 2- megapixel camera and a miniSD card expansion slot. Inbuilt connectivity options include 802.11b Wi-Fi, infrared, Bluetooth (version 2.0) and USB (version 1.1). No pricing detail was given.
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