Total Mobile - leading British mobile phone magazine - reviews newly released (in UK) T-Mobile MDA Compact !
April 20, 2005 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R.
Neither O2 UK nor Orange UK, nor Vodafone have released Pocket PC phones based on HTC Magician construction yet! Clearly T-Mobile is the first in UK with MDA Compact! Later on also other operators in UK will release HTC Magician based Pocket PC phones: Orange as M500 and Vodafone as VPA Compact. While O2 Asia already sells O2 Xda II Mini, O2 UK still hasn't decided yet to release it...
In the latest issue of "Total Mobile" (Issue 130) a detailed review of T-Mobile MDA Compact - as being sold in UK - has been published! Here are some highlights from this very detailed and professional review:
- this review takes 2 full pages of the magazine (here preview only, with obfuscated text) - 30 and 31:
- overall result: 85% and "Total Mobile - Bestbuy Smartphone 2005" award!
- pros mentioned in the review: small for a Pocket PC mobile, feels fine for making voice calls, good built-in software
- cons mentioned in the review: no Wi-Fi, no Flash on camera, internal memory touch light
- T-Mobile MDA Compact is available at T-Mobile UK, depending on the type of contract you select in price range: FREE to 170 pounds - so if you are already customer of T-Mobile UK or you want to become one, you can get this phone even for FREE with new contract or with prolongation
- despite complaining about lack of built-in Wi-Fi author mentions, that it is possible to use SD card slot to attach SDIO Wi-Fi card too.
- if you need to do hard reset of this phone and you have SIM card of T-Mobile UK then no problem, no worry that your connection settings (GPRS, SMS, etc) will be lost: after hard reset this phone has ability to self-configure!
- T-Mobile UK is selling this phone not only alone but also in a kit with CoPilot Live software from ALK - so that you can use this phone not only as mobile phone but also as your mobile car navigation system!
Conclusions: once again Windows Mobile phone scores very positive review from the major press! If you are located in UK we encourage you hereby to visit nearby news-stand and to buy "Total Mobile" magazine issue 130 and read this review in detail (we have presented only some limited highlights)! It can really help you to decide whether this phone is for you!
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