O2's XDA Atom Pocket PC Phone

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]

[chilko @ Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

ok, it's probably singapore dollars - about $475 USD.

[Peter Rojas @ Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

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."

[chilko @ Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

sorry, my fault.

[mark @ Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

yeah chilko, what were you thinking !?!?!?!

[Bj @ Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

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.

[Endeavour @ Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

in msmobiles.com there's something about a rumor of this ppcphone NOT being a HTC product..

[Craig @ Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

No thumbboard? Bleh.

[the::unwired @ Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

@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.

[emmanuel M @ Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

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!

[zrenegade @ Dec 19th 2005 12:19AM]

>>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.