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British press recommends T-Mobile MDA Vario II August 31, 2006 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. HTC Hermes in T-Mobile's incarnation is marked as "must-have"! Furthermore it is the first smart phone in the world, that delivers HSDPA - a fast version of UMTS. HSDPA has been launched by T-Mobile in Europe already (including UK) and clearly T-Mobile needs HSDPA handsets dearly to recoup their investments in network infrastructure. No Symbian phone delivers HSDPA yet. Each Thursday a "Technology" section is published in The Guardian, and today it contains clear recommendation for T-Mobile MDA Vario II: It is a top-end PDA style smartphone that runs using Windows Mobile 5.0, which means as well as offering the usual apps (Word, Outlook etc) it is compatible with a variety of push email solutions. There's also a 2 megapixel camera, a pull-out qwerty keyboard and a BlackBerry style scroll wheel for quick access to the device's functions. The extra data download speed is certainly noticeable when you grab large files, and images load much faster than they do on standard 3G handsets. [...] The phone also has integrated Wi-Fi. Overall the MDA Vario II raises the bar for Windows based smartphones. For serious mobile web users it is a must-have. To read more click here or just buy The Guardian newspaper today and open it on the page 2 of "Technology" section. 
Clearly HTC Hermes is destined to be big hit! Now the question only remains: how much of the theoretical 1.8 megabit/second of HSDPA one can achieve with this phone!? HSDPA cards, that are built-in into some latest notebooks manage to achieve 1.6 megabit/second... UMTS alone gives theoretically 384 kbps and Pocket PC phones manage to achieve 210 kbps usually, so we can roughly estimate that 900 kbps should be possible with HTC Hermes operating over HSDPA network!  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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