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msmobiles.com_robot
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 Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:05 pm Post subject: First REAL LIFE photos of HTC Wizard (here: branded as Qtek 9100 ) Pocket PC phone available! |
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HTC Wizard is coming! Interestingly it has processor for Texas Instruments, not from Intel!
At last, for the first time ever real photos of HTC Wizard are available and thus "rumor phase" is over! The HTC Wizar...
Read more at http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/4083.html |
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jayman
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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| This should read thicker than the HTC Magician - nice post though!! |
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EJR
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| jayman wrote: | | This should read thicker than the HTC Magician - nice post though!! |
thank you very much! I have corrected it instantly.
By the way: HTC Wizard is great but the slow processor puts me off... |
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xenious
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| What is the qtek smartphone in the picture with all four phones? It looks sort of like an 8100. |
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jomni1
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:28 am Post subject: |
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They still did not fix the design 'flaw'!!! 
The d-pad is on the right side. This means that the majority of right handed users will hold the stylus with their right hand and press the d-pad with their right hands as well.
Standard landscape mode brings the d-pad on the left side.
But of course who needs a stylus when the keyboard is extended. I guess they are replicating a PC keyboard there the arrow keys (equivalent of the d-pad) is on the right side. |
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austinguy23
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:12 am Post subject: Ugh - no GPS! |
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| When is HTC going to get with the program and release a PDA/smartphone with integrated GPS?? |
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EJR
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:13 am Post subject: Re: Ugh - no GPS! |
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| austinguy23 wrote: | | When is HTC going to get with the program and release a PDA/smartphone with integrated GPS?? |
Not very soon. HTC is manufacturing HP iPAQ 6500 series for HP so clearly it wouldn't release a unit with built-in GPS not to compete with HP. |
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Eggy
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:00 am Post subject: |
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Haven't seen this one yet?
Regards,
Eggy |
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EJR
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:04 am Post subject: |
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| Eggy wrote: | Haven't seen this one yet?
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yeah, they are from the PDF files from FCC website ! thanks for posting, Eggy! |
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jayman
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:45 am Post subject: |
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There was some talk about the processor on another forum, I think it was either xda-developers or pocketpcthoughts.
The general feeling was that the speeds listed are not an important indicator of capability. The discussion became quite technical, but the basic outcome was that this processor will be as fast or faster than in the previous models, but also be a lot more power efficient. As with all pocketpc's there are so many small factors, that until an unbiased opinion is posted by a respected forum member, the model can not be judged by specifications alone.
My feeling was the general what how slow??? until I read this, however a company like HTC who are going from strength to strength and slowly gaining a good market share, are not going to stick a processor in an evolutionary piece of hardware that is of less power than previous models. I think we will be nicely surprised. Add that to persistent storage and secondary or oversized batteries may become unused by most.
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EJR
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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| jayman wrote: | the model can not be judged by specifications alone.
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it all boils down to binary information: yes or no - to question "is it possible to make Skype voice calls with HTC Wizard over Wi-Fi?". If answer is yes, then 200 MHz processor is OK despite Skype claiming that minimum required for this is 400 MHz... |
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stephman
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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| msmobiles.com_wiseacre wrote: | | jayman wrote: | the model can not be judged by specifications alone.
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it all boils down to binary information: yes or no - to question "is it possible to make Skype voice calls with HTC Wizard over Wi-Fi?". If answer is yes, then 200 MHz processor is OK despite Skype claiming that minimum required for this is 400 MHz... |
Skype use does not make or break the success of a device. |
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EJR
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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| stephman wrote: |
Skype use does not make or break the success of a device. |
for some people it does. |
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kif
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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I got a chance to try English version of this phone with skype. Surprisingly, Skype works fine on this phone with echo cancellation option off. For other language version, I guess skype may not work as well. Usually english version windows mobile get the best performance.
I guess skype improve their software to make the processor requirement
lower and the improvement of HTC driver performance may both be the reason to make it work.
| msmobiles.com_wiseacre wrote: | | jayman wrote: | the model can not be judged by specifications alone.
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it all boils down to binary information: yes or no - to question "is it possible to make Skype voice calls with HTC Wizard over Wi-Fi?". If answer is yes, then 200 MHz processor is OK despite Skype claiming that minimum required for this is 400 MHz... |
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Glofi
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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Generaly the phone runs quite well and I haven't noticed a lot of slowness on it yet. Only a few places and for the moment, I assume this is because the model is still a sample and the ROM is in a beta stage.
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