AnexTEK's moboDA 3360 Pocket PC Phone
By Peter Rojas 
posted June 1st 2005 11:38AM
posted June 1st 2005 11:38AM
Pocket PC Thoughts has the goods on the moboDA 3360, a new Pocket PC Phone from AnexTEK that runs
Windows Mobile 5.0, and
has a 520MHz processor, a 2.8-inch QVGA (240 x 320) LCD touch screen, 64MB of RAM, 128MB of ROM, a tri-band GSM/GPRS,
built-in 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel digital camera, and an SD memory card slot.
[Pic via ePrice]
Dang, that looks hot!! The horsepower of these things is increasing incredibly; unfortunately input methods are still limited. It needs a well-integrated QWERTY somehow to be truly effective... I'd still rock it though.
Mamma Mia, that thing is huge. Just when you're starting to think the Treo 650 is getting a little dated this thing comes along.
ITs interesting to see the amount of PDA's with mobile phones built in that come out, and funnily anough they look like PDS's, this looks substantially like a Phone woth a built in PDA rather than vice versa.
I feel sorry for the team that got stuck on this project at AnexTEK. They probably had this in the works one or two years ago, ready to bring it out when it could have been groundbreaking and hot, and now they're having to act enthusiastic about a phone that's as big as a Treo 180:
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/treo180-review.html
but without a keyboard;
and as functional as the Audiovox SMT 5600:
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=585
but twice the size and with none of the looks.
Sad.
Too bad they are a little late ...compare it to the Samsung i730 http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=667
Re: #5
The problem is, the moboDA outperforms the Samsung i730 in more ways than one. The i730 took a little long to arrive on Western soil and it's now being shadowed by new Windows Mobile 5.0 devices such as the moboDA and Einstein. Besides, will the i730 be upgradeable to Windows Mobile 5.0? Hard to say.
That thing is sweet. However, we just need it a little bigger. It's still possible to hold it with one hand which is unacceptable! Make it as big as my laptop and you'll have a winner!
keyboard?
I can't wait to wheel this through the airport. It does have wheels and a luggage handle, right?
ok most of this thing is just screensize.... what you want a touchscreen phone and have to fumble with a stylus to answer the phone... take a class in ergonomics.
What a freaking brick! I think that I'll just stick to my regular PDA and cellphone...
I'm suprised nobody's mentioned what look to be some truly awful buttons.