HP iPAQ hw6900 Mobile Messenger solid details

Well lookey here: a good friend of Engadget's who shall remain unnamed landed an internal specsheet on the HP iPAQ hw6900 Mobile Messenger we got some rough n' early details on yesterday. Want the real skinny (until they change it again, anyway)? Well, here you go: it'll have GPRS / EDGE, 802.11b (as stated yesterday), Bluetooth 1.2, GPS, Windows Mobile 5.0 plus AKU2 (for push email, etc.), a 416MHz Intel Xscale, 64k color 3.0-inch transflective touchscreen, 1.3 megapixel camera with LED flash, 64MB RAM, IrDA, MiniSD, and USB... 1.1? Seriously, it says USB 1.1. Ok, whatever, we'll find a way to look past that since we can always load up our 2GB MiniSD cards in media readers since they're so easily removed and not under the battery.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 10th 2006 11:55AM]

Did they miss the fact that the world has UMTS networks ?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 10th 2006 12:38PM]

Does the US? At any rate, the world also has 802.11G and USB 2.0.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 10th 2006 12:50PM]

Whilst the customer base of UMTS networks is growing, it is mostly popular with consumers and small business, where network operators are offering ridiculous to get people to try their services and recoup some of the cost of money spent in licensing auctions and network setup.



The uptake amongst corporates of 3G has not been as strong. The main reason behind this is coverage. Over here in the UK, GPRS coverage is 98% of the population where as 3G coverage still hovers around 80% for all of the 3G networks.



This phone is aimed at corporates, and as such, it seems quite logical to use GSM/GPRS/EDGE. Having said that, a thin UMTS PDA smartphonew would be ideal (I am thinking alot thiner than the Treo)....

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 10th 2006 1:01PM]

Any idea when the 6900 will be offered and by whom?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 10th 2006 2:07PM]

I wonder if this still has the low 240x240 screen resolution.

[xbit Posted Jan 10th 2006 2:08PM]

a thin UMTS PDA smartphonew would be ideal (I am thinking alot thiner than the Treo)....



Nokia E61?



http://www.europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,,81718,00.html

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 10th 2006 3:40PM]

I thought this phone was supposed to have integrated GPS, too.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 10th 2006 5:43PM]

#7 - It says on the image and in the text that it has integrated GPS. :-) I missed that in the text too the first time.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 10th 2006 10:43PM]

Why is HP always releasing obselete products? At least they got WM5 on this one. But honestly, EDGE? We've had EV-DO almost 2 years in this country and we're supposed to be OK with the slow data rate of EDGE? Where there is not EV-DO, there is HSDPA, so there's no excuse for HP. It needs to have either HSDPA (backwards compatible with EDGE)or EV-DO!!!!!! My Pocket PC 6700 from Sprint has fast EV-DO PLUS WiFi (something Verizon insists on crippling) and the unlimited data plan for EV-DO on Sprint is $7.50 per month vs. Cingular's $25.00 to $49.00 per month for slow EDGE. Pass on this one and get the Sprint PPC 6700 or at least the Verizon Treo 700 or PPC 6700, or the Motorola Q with EVDO when it comes out. When will HP finally "get it"? Of course I was scratching my head 3 years ago, asking the same thing of Palm, and now look - their OS is dead, and they now use Windows Mobile as their OS...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 11th 2006 8:06AM]

It is inlcluding a SirfStar III GPS chip! sweeet!





http://www.insidepda.de/pocket-pc,HP-iPAQ-Pocket-hw6915,technische-daten,129.html



http://www.releasereview.com/hp9615specs.aspx&article=new



http://www.releasereview.com/hp9615specs.aspx&article=new

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 11th 2006 4:58PM]

I like my iPaq W6315 as a Pocket PC, but as phone it is the least reliable thing ever. I keep getting a "Unalbe to Answer Call" message and I have had to replace it 3 times all due to PHONE related features failing. I would sign up for this phone right away if my experience with my other Windows Powered HP phone wasn't so bad...



ANyone know if the short coming of my phone are related to the Windows 2003? or was this model just a stinker (most people agree it isn't that great a phone), or does HP make less than reiable phones...

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 11th 2006 7:25PM]

Damn the sacrifices made to have GPS on this unit. Going backwards with the WiFi, Bluetooth and uh USB. The screen still isn't upgraded to full QVGA?! Damn you HP!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 12th 2006 2:46PM]

Cingular was one of the sponsors for the .NET Rocks Circuit.

These 3 or 4 guys drove a motor coach (checked into hotels each night) from Boston to San Francisco and typically presented .NET Visual Studio / Visual Basic.NET and Windows Mobile features and benefits at existing .NET Users Groups and had GPS tracking update their website with location while enroute - with a rocking animated motor coach. Anyway they gave door prizes of the latest to be released with WM5 from Cingular and hence my unit (took my finance to a seminar and she won the grand door prize and gifted it to me - sweet: ) had been promised end of December -- to early January and now it looks like end of 1st Quarter?

Cingular's devCentral developers web site doesn't even show all of the planned to be released phones!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 14th 2006 3:39AM]

It looks like the hw6900 will come with TomTom Navigator GPS software.

Also, at 21mm thick, it will be thicker than the motorola Q, which is only 11.5 mm thick. But I'll take a touchscreen, Wifi and GPS along with the extra thickness of the hw6900.