O2's XDA Atom Pocket PC Phone
By Peter Rojas 
posted Sep 20th 2005 11:17AM
posted Sep 20th 2005 11:17AM
Man, eight hundred bucks seems like a crazy ridiculous price to pay for a Pocket PC Phone that isn't the
HTC Universal, but CNET Asia
reports that O2's new XDA Atom is all set to retail for just north of $800 in Singapore (and elsewhere in Asia). That
said, it is pretty nicely spec'd out for a smaller Pocket PC Phone, this bad boy is a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE handset
that runs on Windows Mobile 5.0 and has a 416MHz processor, a 262,000 color, 320 x 240 pixel LCD touch screen,
Bluetooth (they don't specify which kind, but prob. 1.1 or 1.2), a two megapixel digital camera, WiFi, a built-in FM
tuner (a rarity in Windows Mobile devices), 64MB of RAM, and 128MB of ROM. Should be out in early December.
[Via the::unwired]
ok, it's probably singapore dollars - about $475 USD.
chilko, please read the article. It clearly says, "If you can get past its steep S$1,348 (US$802.86) sticker price, the O2 Xda Atom has pretty much everything one could have asked in the Xda II mini and more."
sorry, my fault.
yeah chilko, what were you thinking !?!?!?!
Now i ll be having a tough time thinking about d phone to purchase in december, still looking hard between d universal and wizard. I guess when i get my money ready i ll be having a real tough time deciding.
in msmobiles.com there's something about a rumor of this ppcphone NOT being a HTC product..
No thumbboard? Bleh.
@Endeavour: No, it's not from HTC as an anonymous (but well informed) poster (he revealed the features there before CNet did) commented here (http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=2656) and I got it confirmed also.
I don't care what others say, this is an HTC magician (imate Jam). Or a copy so identical that HTC should sue.
Oh, and the HTC magician costs about the same price. And it is worth it!
>>emmanuel M: the XDA, Iimate and other variants are all made by HTC. Different providers (O2, AT&T ...) give the same model diffent names and sometimes slightly differnt colors.